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FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1995DETROIT FREE PRESS 7D You will be fond of 'She Loves Me' ARTS CRAFTS SHOWS THEATRE ood -vV ft 1 Grfomrs 1995 SMETANKA CRAFT SHOWS Apr. 29-30 8th Annual Yack Arena, Wyandotte JettersonEurgka Rds.) May 19-20, Dwntn Mt. Clanww June 34, Bth Annual Metro Beach, Mt Clemens ff "Ml Book Now or Before Dinner Comedy Theatre Show 10-4PM t1 Adm For I Don't Forgel MOM! Info (BIO) 792-4863 RUMMAGE SPRING EVERYTHING SALE" ARTDECO by Lawrence devine Free Press Theater Critic That old Broadway-Hungarian musical eclair "She Loves Me" at last regained its recovering leading lady at Meadow Brook Theatre, and it should be smooth sailing from here. Taking five MOTHER'S DAY DINNER Sunday, May 14th, 2:00 P.M. CHILDREN Under Call for Info Reservations (81 0) 349-0S22 108 E.

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Aaron-Taylor, longtime professor at Center for Creative Studies, writes that they are 'autobiographical. Faces or parts of them recall her face. But the sculptures carry aspects of all of us, one of the works' strengths. They are expertly shaped. She smooths plastic modeling compound seamlessly into branches and driftwood.

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To Place Your Ad In This Directory Next Friday, May 5, 1995 Please Call 810-977-7500 or (810) 826-7082 lectors who worshipped Barbara Cook and the even more beautiful Jack Cas-; Sometimes it just takes a while. At Meadow Brook, where musicals have had their ups and downs, "She Loves Me" is creamy and romantic. It is iced with the mittel-European waltzes, tan- gos and ballads of Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick that beg to be played by a Viennese-y hotel orchestra led by a violin, cello and accordion. And at Meadow Brook, they are. A pair of clerks in a 1930s Budapest boutique, unbeknownst to each other, have been writing ardent letters to post office boxes from the personals ads.

At work in Maraczek's Parfu-merie, Amalia thinks Georg is a prune, he thinks she is "the rudest, most worst-tempered girl in the world." Since that world is the musical-comedy one, what more need be said? Meadow Brook's production, with that grand little salon orchestra too-; tling away on a perch above the set, has a sentimental pre-war glow to it. Some of that is because it is bathed in mauve and pink light. But the major part of the warmth comes from the leading performances by Scott Mikita as Georg and the recovering Lisa Rochelle as Amalia. Rochelle shows only a little strain of a recent bout with bronchitis in coping with the role originated in 1963 by I Barbara Cook, whose caroling of Harnick songs like "Ice Cream" and "Will He Like Me?" sent a generation of young men to their knees. You see Mikita in his Meadow Brook debut and you begin to conceive what Jimmy Stewart might have been like if he were a vivacious man with a vibrant aw-shucks tenor.

His Georg is a role in which he gets almost the whole show to warm playgoers to his unaffected niceness. Then, midway through the second act when Georg has found out who has been writing him those "Dear Friend" letters, Mikita I comes on with the title song and it's the jackpot. Confronted with a postal swain whose teeth ache with the urge to touch her, Rochelle's Amalia is just as and dizzy as he is, and the lending of "She Loves Me" demon- The shapes emerge from the modeled, artificial forms as though they have grown together. With "Diety XXXVI, (Cat Woman)," you can see the driftwood branch that becomes a female tiger form. The process of metamorphosis is being made visible.

But Cat Woman is off-balance, her head back in an imagined howl of pain or shame or lust. These dieties act like a shaman's dolls, an ancient Greek mythological messenger or a neolithic idol. They are carriers of hope, stand-ins for spirits, evidence of man and nature's war and a longing for balance, for wholeness. The exhibit has been extended to May 14 at 568 N. Woodward Birmingham; 11-5 Tuesday-Saturday.

10 years of thoughts Maurice Greenia Jr. has been around town doing art cartoons and poetry for years. He is self-taught, with a unique outsider vision and eccentric insights that come out in a nonstop stream. The 2-South Gallery in Detroit has 10 years of Greenia's little single sheet journal, "The Poetic Express," hanging by clips from wires strung around their space, through May 6. It is an endearing, engaging show.

Greenia's words are wise like Rimbaud, fresh like Wonder Bread and natural like a child's. Greenia recalls a trip to New York SEVER LWET PMC Pillowtop on a I II II Mil UM Hll A MSUALUALS 1 strates how in 32-year-old Broadway musicals about Budapest, love con-'. quers all, if there was any doubt. Somewhat overplayed by Joseph Gram is the comic louse Kodaly (pro-jnounced KO-dye), the Danubian daz-'zler played with a boutonniere and a i leer by the late Jack Cassidy. Director Robert Spencer's choice for Gram to play his gorgeously smarmy exit song "Grand Knowing You" like a hambola's soft-shoe number is gilding the Kodaly lily, but Gram's boulevardier's pencil mustache is a nice touch.

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