Dawes

singer who died July 23, 2011, at age
27 — with a re-creation of her entire
Grammy-winning album Back to Black.
Vocalist and persona Remember Jones
performs 17 songs with a 15-piece
orchestra in Back to Back to Black
7 p.m. Wednesday, July 20, at Tires.
in Detroit. $15/advance; $20/door.
Eventbrite.com.

HONK!
If you’re looking for something fun
to do with the family, head to Honk!,
a lighthearted musical take on Hans

Remember Jones

Christian Andersen’s fairy tale The Ugly
Duckling, presented by Stagecrafters
Youth Theatre and co-starring
Eli Hurwitz of Huntington Woods.
Originally titled The Ugly Duckling or
the Aesthetically Challenged Farmyard
Fowl when it opened in England, it
went on to win the 2000 Best New
Musical Olivier Award before receiving
an “Americanization” and premiering
in New York. $8-$14. Runs July 21-24
at the Stagecrafters Baldwin Theatre,
Royal Oak. (248) 541-6430;
stagecrafters.org.

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his mother, Ellen Brown Furman, now 67,
asked him to reconsider and find “some-
thing more stable.” His mother then was
a practicing attorney, and his father still
practices law. Well, his mother wrote The
Infiltrator screenplay! Mother and son told
a Tampa newspaper that they had writ-
ten 10 films over the years, but none sold.
But after Ellen retired, she had more time
to hone her writing and she turned out a
script for The Infiltrator, which Variety called
“ingeniously layered.” A Tampa film profes-
sor could not think of another instance in
which a mother wrote a film that her son
directed. By the way, Ellen’s late mother
was a president of the National Council of

Jewish Women.
On July 15, Netflix will release Stranger
Things, a 10-episode supernatural series
that harkens back to the creepy Steven
Spielberg/Stephen King horror fantasies
of the 1980s. Winona Ryder, 44, stars as
Joyce, a small-town Indiana mother whose
young son, Will, goes missing. The town
thinks she’s crackers when she says she can
communicate with Will via a Ouija board,
but they change their tune when monsters
appear in the shadows. There’s also a pas-
sel of kids who try to track Will with walkie-
talkies and a telekinetic friend who helps
Joyce find Will and fight the baddies.

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