SheXDbseroer * Page 1, Section E Keel* Wygonik. Editor 734-953-2105, kwygorikWoe.homecomm.net on the web: http://observer-eccentrlc.com Thursday. October 7. 1999 THE WEEKEND JET opens season with true story The Detroit Underside of Symphony The Jewish Ensemble Theatre pre- Orchestra-pre- sents "The Immigrant" 7:30p.m. sents the world Wednesday-Thursday, and Sunday, 8 premiere of a pm. Saturday, 2 p.m. Wednesday reconstructed and Sunday through Sunday, Nov. 7 Chopin concer- in the Aaron DeRoy Theatre, in the to performed • loiver level of the Jewish Community by its musical Center, 6600 W Maple Road, West author, Aus- Bloomfield. Tickets $15-$25. Dis- tralian pianist counts far seniors and students. Call Alan (248) 788-2900. Kogoooivakt, DY Jl'LlE YOLLKS 10:45 a.m. and SPECIAL WRITER 8 p.m. at "As we begin each new season at Orchestra Hall the Jewish Ensemble Theatre. I feel- in Detroit: much like "The Immigrant." Tickets $14 to embarked on a new path in a new $50, call (313) land," said JET artistic director Eve- 576-5111. ,lyn Orbach. - • So it is very appropriate that "The •• • • i « <Sr I Immigrant," by playwright and actor Mark Harelik. kicks off the Jewish Ensemble Theatre's millennium sea- son. "The Immigrant" will be fol- lowed by "The Prisoner of Second Avenue" by Neil Simon iDec. 22-Jan. 23), "Broken Glass" by Arthur Miller "March 24-April 19), and "The Day We Met" by BirminAam playwright 4 Kitty Dubin 1 May 2^UJune 25). Based on the true story of Mark Missed quota: Willy Loman (David Regal, left), and his son, Biff (TYanis Reiff), push and H a r e I i k ' s pull their way through the meaning of "success" in The Theatre Company's "Death of a grandparents, Salesman r Haskell and Matleh Hare- Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers lik, The Immi- rock the Palace of Auburn Hills The Theatre Company opens season grant" chroni- cles the 19- and with their "Echo Tour"at 8p.m. 16-year-old Tickets $49.50 and $39.50,.avail- with an American classic Russian Jewish able at The Palace and Pine * If' couple's arrival Knob box offices, and Ticketmas- at the port of ter outlets. Call (248) 377-0100 BY FRANK PROVSNZANO Galveston. STAFF WRITER WMAT: "Death of a Salesman" by or (248) 645-6666. fprovenzano9op.homecoiniii.net Arthur Miller. presented D> I he Theatre Texas in 1909 Company of the University of Detroit and their reset- "Be liked and you'll never want." tlement and WHEN: Through Sunday. Oct. 24. Per- Mark Harelik SU^AY - Willy Loman formances 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday. American 2 p.m. Sunday. : rebirth in the tiny community of If there's a single philosopher of Hamilton, Texas. the American Dream that is precar- WHERE: McAuley T heat ^University iously built OR faith and fantasy, it's % of Detroit Mercy's Outer Dnve Campus, Matleh Harelik died in 1971 and Arthur Miller's most compelling one Woe* west of the Southfield Freeway Haskell Harelik passed away in character, Willy Loman, from the TICKETS: $10. general. S6. students 1987 at the age of 100. just two playwright's post-war play, "Death and senior citizens. Call (313) 99.3-1130. years after "The Immigrant" pre- of a Salesman." miered in Denver with his grandson Mark playing the title role of The American classic has been in pany has performed Neil Simon's Haskell. continuous production around the "Biloxi Blues" and William .Sarov- world since its debut in 1949. Five In the JET production, Greg Trza- an's "Time Of Our Lives." skoma and Jodie Kuhn Ellison play decades later, the manners and col- ••"We've been thinking about ioqxrialisms in "Death of a Sates- M Haskell and his wife Paul Hopper "Death of a Salesman" for quite man" seem dated, but Miller's mes- and Mary Bremer pla\ the promi some time." said David Regal, artis- nent town couple that befriend> the sage about the disillusionment of tic director of The Theatre Compa- ^ A material success has proven to be Hareliks. John Michael M tnfredi ny. "It made sense that we would do directs the play. eternally timely. it for the 50th anniversary year." See elephants and mare at Rin- "My grandparents came from the When performed with the proper On the road: Willy Loman 19th Century into the 20th Century gling Bros, and Barnum & Bai- sentiment. Miller's essentially real- Dynamic duo ley, the Greatest Show on Earth, (David Regal, top), and his in about three weeks and basically istic drama blends idealistic yearn- While the McAuley Theatre on plopped down in the most alien ter- 1 p.m. and 5p.m. at Joe Louis ings and middle-age cynicism in wife, Linda (Yolanda Fleisch- the.U of D Mercy campus doesn't .rifory that they could find, said Arena in Detroit. Tickets $10.75, revealing the inherent deception of er of West Bloom field), share offer "the type of intimate venue Harelik, who's also written "The $14.75, $17.75 and $30 available a free-enterprise economy that a blissful moment in a scene demanded by Miller's play, it does Legacy." a. sequel to "The Immi- at the box office and all Ticket- equates freedom with prosperity. from "Death of a Salesman." bring together Regal, the region's grant," "Lost Highway — The Music master outlets. Call (248) 645- Appropriately, The Theatre Gom- most talented and celebrated actor and Legend of Hank Williams" and 6666. rpany at University of Detroit Mercy, nificant American play. with the meticulous and savvy an upcoming musical version of "The a group of some of the area's most Typically, The Theatre Company, director. Geoffrey Sherman. Immigrant" scheduled to open in established actors and promising which has a reputation of present- The two worked together last sea- New York this spring Randal Myler undergraduate students, opens ing "off beat" plays, performs at son during "The Merry Wives of has directed all of Harelik's plays their new season with what is least one American classic during "The goal of my grandmother was arguably th$ most indelible and sig- its season In recent years, the com- 'Please see CLASSIC, E2 to be in a place where she was free to continue her traditional way of Plea.se see JET, E2 TELEVISION mriiiiii—wi'iimwr immni»i i nwiw » - r PBS to air 3-hour show on social impact of photographs BY DOUG JOHNSON family events, as a vehicle for artistic , Soldier's grief: STAFF WRITER expression and as a tool for influencing David Turn- "Hold still. I'm going to take your pic- public opinion ley's poignant ture." Schott explained in a phone inter- Most people have taken hundreds of view Friday that the three-hour show scene from snapshots of their families, travel des» .tells little stories about various pho- Vietnam is tinations and social tographs. some famous.^ 1 1/ * \ i M one of hun- events. some merely personal dreds of still WHAT: •American Photogra- Schott, a professor al... But what - those phy: A Century of Images* a / ^ ^ photograph's images and the mil- Carleton College in * / three-hour show on the 'picture used in the lions of others that sur- tufture" we live in. Minnesota, wanted to % do a show on the "social PBS three round us mean is elu- WHEN: 8-11 p.m. Wednesday. Hot Tlx: Alicya Modesta sive. The growth of this impact on the ways hour show, Oct 13 4 photography has crept Wix, of the Odawa fChippe"- ."picture culture" 48 the "A/nericdn WHEKC:Channel 56 PBS into so mam asjvects of wa Nation, is one of 26 subject of an important Ootrort Public TV (WTVS). Photography PBS broadcast next our lives " Hi* says he dancers performing irt the WHY: The social impact of pic- had been thinking entury of week. Inner Circle at the seventh tography is documented, from about the project for a Images. ' annual Autumn Harvest "American Photogra- private images to public N«t<*y; decade phy: A Century of from the turn of the century nght DAVID Hmn Indian festival, 10a.m. to 6 Imaged will air on up to today's digital images. "Naturally, you can't p.m. Saturday, Oct. 9, and Public Television tell the entire history raphy at the turn of the century, and . Part three. "Photography Tran* 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, WTVS Channel 56 on (of photography i. We've goes through the two world wars, the formed. 1960-1999." takes us through Oct. 10 at the Southfield Wednesday. Oct. 13. from 8 p.m. untd chosen stories that suggest the great Great Depression. Vietnam and up the Cuban Missile Crisis, civil rights Civic Center, 26000 Ever- 11 p.m. sweep of photography in this century " through the modern era movement and the Vietnam War wherv green Road, 1/2 mile south The show's producer, John Schott, Photography came t§ American in The, first hour, "The Developing photographers could take whatever of 11 Mile Road. No charge grew up in Howell and went to the Uni- 1839 when the Dagueman process, Image. 1900-1934." will cover-family they wanted in the way of picture* versity of Michigan invented by Louis Daguerre, arrived snapshot! 111 * through Worl1 d Wa 1 r I Part 2. Social historians say the searing for children age 2 ami • "• "• • • • • • ' younger, $6 for ages 3 and "Photography doesn't capture the from France Those wi-ir «i.rrir images of Vietnam brought the war up.