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HELLO!
Irreverently (to
say the least)
funny and wildly
popular, The
Book of Mormon
— with book,
music and lyrics
by Trey Parker,
Matt Stone and
Lynne Konstantin Robert Lopez (the
Arts & Life Editor
former two are
the Emmy Award-
winning creators
of South Park) — won nine Tony Awards
The Book of Mormon
in 2011, including for co-orchestrators
Larry Hochman and Stephen Oremus.
The musical comedy also won a Grammy
and death among its former inhabitants.
for Best Musical Theater Album. See it
Cool. Nov. 4-20; complimentary coffee
through Nov. 13 at the Fisher Theatre in
and sandwiches are offered after each
Detroit. Tickets start at $39, with pre-show performance. $15-$18. (248) 988-7049;
lottery ticket pricing at $25.
ridgedaleplayers.com.
(313) 872-1000; broadwayindetroit.com.
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HAUNTED
Award-winning a cappella group
Keep the spooky season going by taking
Pentatonix — made up of Kevin Olusola,
in a performance of The Haunting of Hill
Kirstin Maldonado, Mitch Grassi, Scott
House at Troy’s Ridgedale Players Theater. Hoying and Avi Kaplan (“My dad always
Written by F. Andrew Leslie and directed
said ‘Be proud that you’re Jewish,’” he
by Erin Hobbs, the play is a chilling and
told the Forward in 2014, “and I keep that
mystifying study in mounting terror — a
dear to my heart.”) — has just released
small group of “psychically receptive”
its third Christmas album, A Pentatonix
people are brought together in a Victorian Christmas (last year’s offering included
mansion to probe the secrets of the
the Grammy-winning track, “Dance of the
house, which has left a trail of madness
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Celebrity Jews

Nate Bloom
Special to the Jewish News

CATCHING UP WITH
NEW SHOW HEBREWS
Man with a Plan is a CBS comedy series
that started on Oct. 24, and new episodes
air Mondays at 8:30 p.m. Matt LeBlanc
stars as a stay-at-home dad whose wife
has returned to work. Jessica Chaffin,
40ish, has a regular supporting role as
Marie, a neighbor LeBlanc consults about
parenting. Chaffin and her comedy part-
ner, Jamie Denbo, 43, have long had a
comedic bi-weekly podcast (Ronna and
Beverly) on the Earwolf Network. They
play two 50-something Jewish women
who dispense advice and interview real
celeb guests.
The CBS series The Great Indoors pre-
miered on Oct. 27, and new episodes air
Thursdays at 8:30 p.m. Joel McHale stars
as a reporter who traveled the globe for
an outdoors magazine. Then the maga-
zine’s owner (Stephen Fry, 59), decides
to turn it into a web-only magazine and
McHale finds himself office-bound and
supervising a staff of “raw” millennials.

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