"Over the Rainbow," a musical review by friends, colleagues and former and current students of Carol-Ann Black, will be presented at 8 p.m. today and 3 p.m. tomorrow at the Royal Majestic Theater, inside Trillium Academy, 15740 Racho Road, Taylor.
Black, owner and director of ShowBiz Kidz, ShowBiz Starz and Big Girl Productions, is currently facing long and expensive medical treatments for fibroid tumors.
The show is a fund-raiser to help defray some of the costs. The performances will be accompanied with silent auctions for items donated by area businesses.
Tickets for the "Over the Rainbow" fund-raiser are $10 and can be purchased at the door. For more information, call 1-734-934-7086.
School's "in" for summer as the Downriver Youth Performing Arts Center presents Disney's "High School Musical" at 7 p.m. June 22, 23, 29 and 30 at the Flat Rock High School auditorium, 28100 Aspen.
There also are matinees at 2 p.m. June 23 and 30.
"High School Musical" tells the story of an unlikely couple -- Troy, the popular captain of the basketball team, and Gabriella, the brainy and beautiful member of the academic club. They mix up the social standards by crossing the boundaries of high school cliques and follow their dreams.
Tickets are $12 for adults, $10 for students and seniors, and are available by calling 1-734-362-8153 or visiting www.dypac.com. For information, call 1-734-789-8703 or 1-734-671-2202.
Performance Network Theatre, 120 E. Huron St., Ann Arbor, presents Peter Schaffer's "Amadeus" through Sunday.
Despite his own success, composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed with jealousy over the incomparable talent God has given to his contemporary, the crass, immature Mozart. He sets out to avenge himself on Mozart and God.
Evening performances are at 8 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays, with matinees at 3 p.m. Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays. Tickets are $20 Thursdays, $30 Fridays and matinees, $37 for Saturdays. Special rates are available for groups. Rush tickets are available for seniors and students.
Call 1-734-663-0681 or visit www.Performancenetwork.org for tickets or information.
This Father's Day, treat the old man to a down-home tribute to fatherhood when Garrison Keillor, host of the acclaimed nationally broadcast weekly radio show, "A Prairie Home Companion," performs in a special concert with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
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Titled "Honor Thy Father," the event takes place at 3 p.m. June 17 in Orchestra Hall at the Max M. Fisher Music Center, 3711 Woodward Ave., Detroit.
The show will feature Keillor's trademark wit and commentary, combined with light classical repertoire ranging from Bernstein to Bizet.
Keillor, a father and grandfather himself, will focus his gentle storytelling and whimsical musical skits on the subject of fatherhood, while conductor Philip Brunelle leads the DSO in a program of short and uplifting orchestral works.
Selections will include music from Mendelssohn's ballet, "A Midsummer Night's Dream," Poulenc's "Suite FranÁaise" and Bernstein's "Three Dance Episodes" from "On the Town," among many others.
Tickets range from $35 to $85, and are available at The Max box office, by phone at 1-313-576-511 or online at www.detroitsymphony.com.
The third annual Michigan Theatre Festival brings 10 Michigan theater groups together for a weekend-long series of staged readings of new and established plays June 15-17 at the Boll Family YMCA Theatre, 1401 Broadway Ave., in downtown Detroit.
The following theaters will participate with the following shows:
The Abreact Theatre, with "On Parenting," a comedy that follows the course of a family that starts by surprise.
Blackbird Theatre, with "Senate Inappropriations" about four U.S. senators who rent a row house to save money during the weekdays, but then pull a practical joke that shakes the foundations of their entire party.
Jewish Ensemble Theatre, with "Saying Kaddish with My Sister." It's the story of two sisters trying to live up to their mother's dying wish, "Girls, don't fight." By uncanny and hilarious means, even after death, their mother is determined to reconcile her warring daughters.
Meadow Brook Theatre, with "An Evening with Jack Kerouac" set in the green room of William F. Buckley's syndicated television program, "Firing Line," Kerouac shares with the audience his deepest thoughts.
Performance Network, with "Freedom High," about civil rights workers who experience the intense complexity of racism on a deeply personal level.
Planet Ant Theater, with "Dr. Seward's Dracula," a re-examination of the Dracula tale through the eyes of one of its supporting characters.
Plowshares Theatre Company, with "The Homegoing," about a family that has not been together for three years trying to deal with each other in a time of tragedy.
Williamston Theatre, with "The Nature of Flight" about a couple and their friends and their struggle to take the lives they lead and reconcile them with the lives they want.
Tickets for each individual reading are a $5 suggested donation. Festival passes, which include unlimited admission for one person to all of the readings, wrap parties and any special events, are $50.
Tickets can be purchased at the Plowshares box office. For more information, call 1-313-872-0279 between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. weekdays. Box Office hours are between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
The Players Guild of Dearborn will present the original comedy, "Pass the Ducks" by Brian Townsend, at 8 p.m. June 22, 23, 29 and 30 at the Players Guild of Dearborn Theater, 21730 Madison.
The theater company's annual summer fund-raiser is a series of comedic sketches in the tradition of "The Carol Burnett Show" or "SCTV."
Tickets are $10 and are available online at http://playersguildofdearborn.org or at the box office the night of the show 45 minutes before curtain.
The Gem Theatre presents the new musical "Respect: A Musical Journey."
Based on Dr. Dorothy Marcic's book, "Respect: Women and Popular Music," the show takes a historical, hysterical, high-energy look at women's changes from 1900 to today as illustrated by popular song, portrayed by a narrator and three singers, showing music's depiction of women, "Someone to Watch Over Me" to "I Will Survive" and beyond.
The show runs through July 1. Tickets are on sale for $39.50. Tickets are available by phone at 1-313-963-9800, through Ticketmaster and at the Gem Theatre box office. Group discounts for 15 or more and dining packages at the Century Grille and Elwood Bar & Grill restaurants are available.
Meadow Brook Theatre presents Dan Goggon's "Nunsensations! The Nunsense Vegas Revue" through next Sunday.
The sixth installment of the popular "Nunsense" series takes the sisters on an adventure to Sin City.
When a parishioner volunteers to donate $10,000 to the sisters' school if they will perform in a club in Las Vegas, Mother Superior is hesitant to accept.
But the other sisters convince her that what happens in Las Vegas will stay in Las Vegas. What follows is the most feather-filled, sequin-studded, fan-dancing Nunsense show ever.
Tickets range from $28- $38 and are available at the Meadow Brook Theatre box office, by phone at 1-248-377-3300 or at Ticketmaster. Com. For group sales, call 1-248-370-3316.
The Blackbird Theatre, 1600 Pauline Blvd., Ann Arbor, presents "For Colored Girls Who have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow isn't Enuf" through June 23.
This modern classic "choreopoem" about women of color is considered one of the most important plays of the 20th century. Ntozake Shange's semi-autobiographical tale is told through music, poetry and dance, laying the groundwork for today's modern hip-hop theater. It contains language and themes for mature audiences.
Performances are at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays. Tickets are $18, $12 for those over 60 and $8 for students. Call 1-734-332-3848.
Thomas & Friends are making tracks to Detroit in their first live touring stage show in America — "Thomas Saves the Day" June 23 and 24 at the Fox Theater.
This all-new 90-minute musical adventure includes new railroad-themed songs and tells the story of Thomas and his engine friends as they work together to get their railroad ready for Sodor's Magic Lantern Festival.
Encountering adventures along the way, Thomas, Percy and Diesel, among others, share a story that helps encourage life lessons such as discovery, friendship and cooperation.
Tickets range from $18.50 - $40.50 and go on sale at 10 a.m. Monday at OlympiaEntertainment.com, the Fox Theatre and Joe Louis Arena box offices and all Ticketmaster locations. Charge tickets by phone at 1-248-433-1515. For more information, call 1-313-471-6611.
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