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Greater Detroit's Original Cultural Events Weekly • Thursday,
December 1 , 2016
DOWNTOWN
MONITOR
Voted one of the nation's Top Ten Holiday Events by both USA
Today and Reader’s Digest, Holiday Nights in Greenfield Village
will be held during the entire month of December, from Friday,
December 2 through Friday, December 30. Each evening's festivities
take place from 6:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. Experience over 300 years of
holiday history by strolling through
a lantern-lit Greenfield Village. Learn how traditions have
evolved into those we still follow today, including the origins of
drinking hot chocolate dating back to the mid-1700's, how stocking
stuffers became popular, right to the very early days of Christmas
becoming recognized as a national holiday in America.Visitors can
get inspired to prepare their own holiday meals after
watching festive recipes come to life during cooking
demonstrations inside Greenfield Village's historic
kitchens.Holiday Nights in Greenfield Village is like stepping into
a Christmas
card from the past — the golden glow from candlelit windows, the
scent of roasting chestnuts, the sound of carolers in the distance,
the jingle of sleigh bells. Attendees can even take a turn on the
fabulously maintained 1913 Herschell-Spillman Carousel. The Village
will be alive with costumed presenters, horse-drawn wagons and
Model T
rides, plus Santa with live reindeer. Food stations will feature
hot chocolate and hot apple cider, roasted
chestnuts and a roast beef carving station. For those looking to
do some holiday shopping there will be plenty of options including
The Henry Ford’s own Liberty Craftworks glass and pottery
collection, historic toys at the Main Street Emporium and an
ornament shop located on Main Street. The Village's exceptional
Holiday Fireworks displays will light the skies over the Village
Green beginning at about 9:45 p.m. Holiday Nights in Greenfield
Village is presented by Citizens Bank
and sponsored by Meijer and Ford Motor Company Fund. Cooking
demonstrations taking place inside the Village's homes are
sponsored by Meijer. Ticket prices are $22 for adult members of The
Henry Ford/
Greenfield Village and $16.50 for youth members, $26 for adult
non-members and $19.50 for youth non-members. Children two and
under are free. For information or to purchase tickets, call (313)
982-6001 or see thehenryford.org. Advance reservations are
recommended. The Henry Ford Museum and adjacent Greenfield Village
are located
at 20900 Oakwood Blvd., in Dearborn.
Holiday Nights in Greenfield Village are Nation's Best
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SHOWINGS
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Glass Academy’s Holiday Show and SaleDearborn’s Glass Academy
studio presents their holiday show and sale featuring an
educational demonstration of glassblowing and Michigan made holiday
glassware. The show runs through Christmas Eve, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
at 25331 Trowbridge in
West Dearborn. Admission and parking are free for this
all ages show which will showcase smil-ing glass snowmen, candy
canes, signature Michigan Icicles, and the Michigan Pine tabletop
sculpture as well as other classic glass ornaments.Shopping for
holiday merchandise starts
in the gallery during the opening weekend December 3 and 4.
Custom orders will be accepted during the show and all holiday
glass work will be available for purchase until December 24. For
more information, call The Glass Academy at (313) 561-4527.
Haute Domain, Art and Renovation ExperienceGalerie Camille and
NEXT: SPACE, a Detroit-based artists’ organization, are
present-
ing Haute Domain an innovative art and design experience in the
heart of Detroit’s New Center, opening Thursday, December 8, from 5
-9 p.m. Haute Domain will feature local fine art and furniture in
Building 1 (pictured) and
Building 2, both located at 3020 E. Grand Blvd., with each of
the two ‘dwellings’ newly renovated by de-signer and award-winning
wood craftsman Alan Kanairz. Curated within Kanairz’s two
uniquely handcrafted environ-ments, the month-long exhibition
emphasizes local creative talent and will showcase many of
De-troit’s top artists and furniture de-signers. For more
information, see galeriecamille.com, or call the gal-lery at (313)
974-6737.
MOCAD'S 'Monster' Drawing Rally Will Raise FundsMOCAD’s 5th
annual Monster Drawing Rally and fundraiser will feature 70
artists
in two, one-hour shifts drawing in front of a live audience.
This live art event takes place on Friday, December 9 from
6:30-9:30 p.m. Artists will create works using a va-
riety of materials: everything from col-lage and watercolor to
ink and graph-ite. Spectators will witness the creative process,
watching as ideas transform into fully-fledged artworks. Each piece
immediately becomes available for sale at $40. Doors open at 6:30
p.m. with the First Shift of artists drawing from 7 p.m. - 8 p.m.
and the Second Shift from 8:30 p.m.- 9:30 p.m. Admission is $10
for the General Public and $7 for MOCAD Members. For more
information, call (313) 832-6622. The Museum of Contemporary Art in
Detroit is located at 4454 Woodward Ave., in Detroit's Cultural
District.
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Oakland U Jazz Night at Cliff Bell’s
A formal review of the jazz professors and students that make up
Oakland University’s jazz program takes place at Cliff Bell’s,
Downtown Detroit’s deco bar and jazz club, on Sunday, December 4,
at 6 p.m. The Oakland University Jazz Program provides many
opportunities for students. OU's Jazz Ensemble, Jazz Combos, and
Contemporary Music En-semble perform around the Metro Detroit area,
and have fea-tured such guest artists as Regina Carter and Doc
Holladay. OU offers jazz classes in Jazz Theory, Jazz History and
Analy-sis, and Arranging. The concert is free of charge to attend.
For more information see oakland.edu/jazz or cliffbells.com. Cliff
Bell’s is located at 2030 Park Ave., in Downtown Detroit.
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Ruth Crystal-Zaromp
SYMPHONIC NEWS
Ruth's Music Notes...
Now when we are get-ting closer to the end of the year, The
Phoenixphest has been taking place in Ann Arbor at Kerrytown
Con-cert House. Here, many stu-dents are introduced into serious
music that is not available to them other-wise. The Phoenix
Ensemble is a nonprofit organization where the most talented
teachers have access to the talented newcomers. At the height of
this festival, this past Sunday, world class pianist Louis Nagel
gave a solo recital. The program included works by
Bach-Beethoven-Brahms, and the quality was such that it will stay
with the audi-ence for many years. Many more events are scheduled
at that location during the coming weeks. Among them – the Annual
Croissant Concert on December 3 at 11 a.m., and the Jamie Baum
Quintet on the same day at 8 p.m. Details for these and other
events can be found at kerrytownconcerthouse.com.On December 1 to
Decem-
ber 24, just in time for the holiday season, the Jewish Ensemble
Theatre in West Bloomfield is presenting the Michigan Premiere of
Handle with Care by Jason Odell Williams. The roman-tic comedy
pairs a foreign young woman with little command of English and an
American man with little command of romance. Han-dle with Care
features An-nie Keris, Henrietta Herme-lin Weinberg, Dan Johnson,
and Michael Lopetrone. For more information see Jet-Theatre.org.
This season is plentiful
with Pops concerts and shows. Classical music
doesn’t stop either. This coming weekend features the DSO with
conductor Leonard Slatkin performing music by William Walton and
Kurt Weill. Soprano soloist Storm Large will be singing. The
program in-cludes Walton’s first suite from Façade (heard re-cently
in Ann Arbor) and his first symphony. These will be sandwiching
Kurt Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins, which he composed to the lyrics
of Bertolt Brecht. In Façade, the lyrics by Dame Sitwell are
utterly hi-larious. The DSO program takes place this coming
Fri-day, December 2, at 8 p.m. and on Saturday, December 3 at 8
p.m. This coming Sunday, De-
cember 4, The Scarab Club ensemble will present the Schubert
Octet, introduc-ing the new concertmaster of the MOT orchestra
Eliot Heaton. The second half of the concert, the Opera Winds (a
wind quintet com-posed of MOT musicians) will include arrangements
of opera favorites. The per-formance will be taking place at 7
p.m., at the Grosse Pointe Unitarian Church,
17150 Maumee Avenue, at the corner of Maumee and St. Clair.
Tickets are $20 when reserved and $25 at the door. Call (248)
474-8930. At the Cranbrook Music
Guild, pianist Ivan Mosh-chuk, will be appearing on Tuesday,
December 6, at 7:30 p.m. Over the past years, we have come to know
this man well, hav-ing heard him on many occasions. He is a winner
of international competi-tions, among them the Ar-thur Fraser
International Piano Competition. When asked about the purpose of
his art, Ivan Moshchuk turns to the words of Rob-ert Schumann – “to
send light into the darkness of men’s hearts – such is the duty of
the artist.” At 25, Moshchuk’s program in-cludes Hommage á Gilels,
Mozart – Sonata in C major K330, Beethoven's Sonata No. 8 in C
minor Op. 13, Cho-pin – Prelude in C sharp mi-nor Op. 45, Chopin –
Sonata no. 3 Op. 58. Check Cran-brook Music Guild, phone: (248)
853-5170, or email at [email protected].
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Sunday Services of Holy Communion8:30 a.m.-The Holy Communion
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5December 1, 2016 DOWNTOWN MONITOR
CITY SCENE
Laydell Harper ber 3, The Carr Center will partner with the 44th
An-nual Noel Night to present Grammy nominated jazz bassist Rufus
Reid. Reid will appear with the
Michigan State University Jazz Orchestra 1 in a perfor-mance
that will include ex-cerpts from Duke Ellington & Billy
Strayhorn’s arrange-ments of Tchaikovsky’s Nut-cracker Suite.Reid
is the Michigan State
University Federal Credit Union jazz artist in resi-dence. The
performance with MSU Jazz Orchestra 1 will take place Saturday at
the First Congregational Church in Midtown De-troit (Woodward and
For-est) from 9 p.m. – 10 p.m. Admission is free.The Carr Center,
formerly
The Arts League of Michi-gan, now celebrating its 25th
Anniversary, brings a wealth of exciting new energy and
entertainment into the downtown area. Promoted for many years as
The Carr Center in the old Paradise Valley, this has brought new
interest to this formerly hidden location. The name Paradise Valley
has become increasingly more popular because of The Carr Center.
“We continue to bring high
quality programing to the Carr Center; bringing to-gether class,
culture and community,” said Oliver Ragsdale, President, Arts
League/Carr Center. The landscape of Down-
town Detroit is changing almost daily, and the Carr Center is an
important part of that change. At a recent Carr Center
jazz concert, the standing room only audience heard some of the
finest jazz art-ists in Greater Detroit—a testament to The Carr
Cen-ter’s focus on quality. “We, like the city and com-
munities we serve, are changing. We want to at-
tract and retain a diverse, engaged and committed au-dience who
shares our love and appreciation for the arts in every form. We are
delighted to bring this key element of Detroit’s rich African
American Culture to Downtown Detroit,” said Ragsdale. Art and Music
at the Carr
Cultural Arts Center is an experience in itself. With so many
artistic expres-sions under one roof, The Arts League/Carr Center
is an invaluable asset to the Downtown Detroit area. Don’t miss the
homecom-
ing of two jazz Greats! “It's a not-to-be missed oppor-tunity to
experience two of the brightest stars in jazz in one amazing
performance,” says Ragsdale.
This special event with Dee Dee Bridgewater and Geri Allen will
take place at the Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts on
Friday, December 2. Tickets are: Adults $45/$60; Stu-dent tickets
at $25 can be purchased at the Box office or at
thecarrcenter.org.Become a Friend of the
Carr by Friday, December 2, and you can join them for a private
post-concert reception with Geri Allen and 2017 NEA Jazz Master,
Tony and Grammy Award winner Dee Dee Bridgewa-ter after their
performance at Downtown's Music Hall. Friends can purchase up to 4
premium tickets for the concert, with all 4 attendees invited to
the post-concert reception.
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Grosse Pointe Symphony's Hansel and GretelThe Grosse Pointe
Symphony will present Hansel and Gretel, a Children's Holiday
Concert on Sunday, December 4, 2 p.m., at St. Clare of
Montefalco. Directed by Joe Striplin it's the first complete opera
production in collaboration with Wayne State University's Opera
Workshop, which is directed by Frances Brocking-ton.Grosse Pointe
Symphony is pleased to give these singers a full orchestra of
over 75 players for this performance of the well known Grimm
brothers fairy tale, that has been set to music by Engelbert
Humperdinck and is sure to delight.Hansel will be sung by Serafina
Marie Belletini, mezzo soprano (pictured, left).
She is a third year vocal performance major at Wayne State and
sings with Wayne State's Concert Chorale and Christ Church Grosse
Pointe's Schola. Gretel will be sung by Ciera V. Wil-liams, soprano
(pictured, right) She is a Detroit na-tive, an alumna of Wayne
State and graduated with a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance.
There will also be a pre-concert talk at 1 p.m. by Charles
Green-well. Tickets are $15 for adults, $12 for seniors and K-12
are free. Tickets are
available online at gpsymphony.org or at the door. For more
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4th Annual Southwest Holiday FestThe 4th Annual Southwest
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organizations, will take place on Saturday, December 10, from
4-8 p.m. in Detroit's Mexi-cantown neighborhood of the
Bagley/Vernor Corridor, between 16th and 25th Streets.Starting at
3:30 p.m. horse and wagon rides will depart from Detroit Farm and
Garden
where Christmas trees will be sold. The Ford Resource and
Engagement Center (FREC) will offer visits with Santa Claus,
s'mores, hot chocolate and a 5:30 p.m. tree lighting cere-mony. At
6 p.m. Xochi's Gift Shop will lead a Posada. Throughout the
festival, the Michi-
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Vista Part-nership/St. Anthony Church, FREC, Honey Bee Market,
Matrix Theatre Company and other participat-
ing destinations, will feature everything from pop up vendors,
dance parties, mariachi bands, craft-making, live performances,
dining, a visiting portrait artist and more. Dur-ing the festival,
volunteer ambassadors will be present to hand out maps of
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LIVE THEATRE
Fun Home, the 2015 Tony Award winning Best Musical, has opened
at the Fisher Theatre for a two-week run that is sure to delight
Detroit audiences. The musical is based on the best-selling graphic
memoir by Alison Bechdel and introduces Alison at three stages of
her life. We see Alison examine her family, especially her parents,
in an effort to understand who these people really were and how
they helped form her life. The subtitle of the book on which the
play is based is A Family Tragicomic.
The character of Alison is actually played by three different
actresses to portray Alison at three different ages. The adult
Alison (Kate Shindle) introduces the play and is always a presence
on stage, even for the other ages of Alison. She looks over their
shoulders and comments on what is happening.
By Marian Sakalauskas
Detroit Premiere of Fun Home at the Fisher
Small Alison (Alessandra Baldacchino) is about ten years old and
is already becoming her own person. She doesn’t like wearing
dresses and barrettes, preferring the rough and tumble life of her
brothers.
Medium Alison (Abby Corrigan) is a freshman in college where she
struggles to find people who are interesting to her and to come to
terms with her own sexual identity. As a naïve freshman she thinks
she is simply asexual until
she meets Joan (Karen Eilbacher) and then, wham, out pours an
enthusiastic song of sexual awakening.
Alison explains early on that both she and her father lived in a
small town in Pennsylvania; they were both gay; he killed himself
and she became a lesbian cartoonist.
Alison’s father, Bruce (Robert Petkoff), is a complex and
conflicted character. He teaches high school English, prides
himself on doing historic restoration on the old house the
family lives in, and runs the family funeral business. Married with
three children, he picks up young men on the side. On the one hand
he is almost obsessed with appearances and propriety, and on the
other hand he has this secret life.
Helen (Susan Momiz) is the mother of this family and she has
clearly worked very hard on the details of keeping the family
functioning. The little things have allowed her to turn a blind eye
to the bigger picture.
What about the title, Fun Home? That's the nickname the three
children have for the family business, the funeral home. The most
hilarious scene in the whole musical takes place as the kids do a
song and dance commercial for the funeral home, and especially the
caskets. The number is raucous and has the audience holding their
sides in laughter.
The music for Fun Home is by Jeanine Tesori with book and lyrics
by Lisa Kron. In addition to the Best Musical Tony, the musical
also won Best Score and Best Book. With this win, Tesori
and Kron made history by being the first female writing team to
win the Best Score Tony Award. Sam Gold won the Tony for Best
Direction.
Visually the production was very interesting. The orchestra was
not seated down in the pit but was on stage and visible behind the
set pieces. For the most part, the set consisted of pieces and
furniture that moved in and out as needed without walls marking off
areas. Especially effective is the writing desk where Alison does
her writing and drawing; the desk is moved to various spots on the
stage. The effect of all this is to underscore that each of us is a
compilation of all our past experiences and memories.
Fun Home runs through December 11. Tuesday through Saturday
shows are at 8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday matinées are at 2 p.m. and
Sunday performances are at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are at Ticketmaster,
by phone at (800) 982-2787, online at broadwayindetroit.com and
also at the Fisher Box Office. The Fisher Theatre is located at
3011 W. Grand Blvd., in Detroit's New Center.
By Paul Arlon
'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance' with a Twist
The Tipping Point Theatre in Northville is one of Greater
De-troit’s most worthwhile destina-tion venues for live theatre.
Their latest staging, a Michigan pre-miere of The Man Who Shot
Lib-erty Valance, is a twisty take on the iconic film of the same
name. And, let’s face it – a writer who attempts an update of a
movie that’s listed on the National Film Registry had better have
some-thing significant to say. I’d say it’s akin to sitting down at
a poker game with James Stewart, John Wayne, and Lee Marvin, the
stars of the 1962 movie, and hoping to draw a royal flush. Not a
hand on which to bet the farm…
But, that’s not fully the case here. Playwright Jethro Compton
takes the original story’s title, several of the character’s names,
and the basic premise of the plot, but then plies those bare
timbers with much new material. That’s not at all a bad thing, but,
it most surely isn’t The Duke and Jimmy taking on black-hatted Lee,
either.
So, let’s just assume you know the story: A prominent Senator
shows up in a dusty little town to attend the funeral of a genuine
old-time cowboy. When asked by an eager cub reporter why a man of
his stature would make the effort to pay his respects to an
anachronistic man, like the dead cowboy lying in front of them, the
Senator responds that the old man was a very good friend of his – a
friend that he hadn’t seen in a quarter-century.
It’s then that the Senator flashes back to the beginning of his
story – to the origins of his path to his current position – how he
be-came The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.
In the Tipping Point’s version, we first meet a crusty trail
hand, Bert Barricune (Jim Porterfield) as he drags the badly beaten
traveler, Ransom Foster (David Bendena) into The Prairie Belle
Saloon, the only bar in the shriv-eled western town of TwoTrees.
Bert happened upon Ransom af-ter he was viciously attacked by
roving thugs, and brought him
into the bar for its proprietress Hallie Jackson (Hallie Bee
Bard) to resuscitate. The no-nonsense Hallie isn’t thrilled to be
bur-dened with a near-dead man, but she’s charitable at heart, and
she and her one employee, a black man named Jim (Dez Walker), use
some extra-potent hot sauce to bring Ransom back to life.
It turns out that Ransom was assaulted by the much-feared
outlaw, Liberty Valance (Patrick Loos). Bert and Hallie know
Lib-erty and his bandit ways all too well, and they suggest that
Ran-som leave town as soon as he’s able. Bert really doesn’t want
an-other man around to steal Hallie’s attention, and Hallie doesn’t
re-ally want a freeloader taking up space.
As Ransom was only left with his carpetbag full of books, he
doesn’t have a way to pay back any kind-nesses, anyway. But, before
he gathers himself up to leave town, he discovers that Jim,
Hallie’s af-fable employee, can’t read, but, instead, has a
photographic mem-ory. Ransom reads a passage out
loud, and Jim recites it back with-out error. Seizing upon this,
Ran-som offers to teach the illiterate Hallie and Jim, too, how to
read and write as a way for him to stay in TwoTrees and to earn his
keep.
The success of Ransom’s teach-ing becomes widely known, and gets
the attention of the bigoted and evil-minded Liberty. How this
conflict is portrayed – between the high-minded, educated man-ners
of a forward-thinking age and the brutish low-cultured be-havior of
those unwilling to adapt to a fast-changing world – is the real
body of this play, as given to us via some fairly heavy
philo-sophical discourse between Lib-erty and Ransom.
No actor hits a snag in the pro-duction directed by Angie Kane
Ferrante and the set and staging by Monika Essen is again,
ex-emplary. Also featuring Stebert Davenport in a number of roles,
and Dan Jaroslaw as the Marshall. Plain country speaking: The
Tip-ping Point Theatre just doesn’t put on a bad show.
Tickets are $30-$35 online at tippingpointtheatre.com, or call
(248) 347-0003. Onstage through December 18, showtimes are
Thursdays, Fridays, and Satur-days at 8 p.m., with matinees
Sat-urday at 3 p.m., and Sundays at 2 p.m. The Tipping Point
Theatre is located at 361 E. Cady St., in Northville.
L to R: Bard, Mosten, and Bendena
L to R: Shindle, Baldacchino and Petkoff
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Highland Park, MI 48203(313) 883-5020
Accepting Applications for our newly renovated 2 bedroom
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99 MANCHESTER PARKWAYHIGHLAND PARK, MI 48203Accepting
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