2016 travel brochure - JCC of Metro Detroit

Overnight Travel, Cruises, Destinations
of Distinction and Upcoming Daytrips
For a flyer about a particular trip, please call Marilyn Wolfe at 248.432.5471
★C
uba: May 2-10
★ I srael: February 23-March 6 ★C
alifornia Coast: February 18-25, including Amtrak’s Coast
Starlight Journey, Los Angeles to San Luis Obispo, CA.
Sponsored by Shoreline Tours and Travel
★ Sedona and Las Vegas, plus the Grand Canyon Train:
April 15-21. Features four nights in Sedona, two nights in
Las Vegas, six breakfasts, three dinners, the Grand Canyon
Train, the Verde Canyon Railroad and Hoover Dam.
Sponsored by Shoreline Tours and Travel
★W
ashington, D.C.: May 1-4. Enjoy the best that our capital
has to offer. This trip is escorted by Marilyn Wolfe.
★ Jewish Italy: July 10-21. Join Professor Howard Lupovitch
on a spectacular tour of Italy - with a Jewish twist. Visit
Rome, Tuscany, Florence and Venice.
Meeting: January 28, 2016 at 7 p.m.
JCC - Greenberg Suite
Co-sponsored by Fed-Ed, Cohn-Haddow Center for Judaic
Studies and SAJE (Seminars for Adult Jewish Enrichment).
★T
he Great Canadian West: August 7-13, featuring
Vancouver, Victoria, Whistler and the Rocky
Mountaineer Train.
★S
tratford, Ontario: Wednesday-Thursday, August 24
and 25. Choose from “As You Like It,” “A Little Night
Music” or “All My Sons” Wednesday evening, and
“Macbeth,” “A Little Night Music” and “Redemption”
Thursday afternoon. Lodgings at the Arden Park Hotel.
This two-day getaway includes two dinners and
breakfasts.
★ Niagara-on-the-Lake: Date to be announced.
Please call for a flyer.
★S
tratford, Ontario: September 14. One-day trip to
Stratford includes dinner and your choice of
“A Chorus Line,” “Shakespeare in Love” or “Redemption.”
Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit
D. Dan & Betty Kahn Building
Eugene & Marcia Applebaum Jewish Community Campus
6600 W. Maple Road, West Bloomfield, MI 48322
www.jccdet.org
Return Service Requested
Upcoming Day Trips
Wednesday, May 11
“Gaps in the Fossil Record” at the Purple Rose Theatre
Friday, May 13
“The Magic Flute” Final Dress Rehearsal at the Detroit
Opera House
Tuesday, May 17
“The Sound of Music” at the Fisher Theatre
TRAVEL MEETING:
Thursday, January 28 at 7 p.m.
JCC – Greenberg Suite
Wednesday, June 8
“Forever Plaid” at Meadowbrook Theatre
Wednesday, June 29
“Mornings at Seven” at the Purple Rose Theatre
Thursday, September 22
“The Men of Country” at the Victoria Theatre in Petrolia
✈
JEWISH ITALY
with Professor
Howard Lupovitch
Please call and let us know what trips
you would like us to plan for you.
Jewish Community Center
of Metropolitan Detroit
CENTER TRAVEL
DAYTRIPS
January–April 2016
Center Travel Daytrips
January-April 2016
• Please thoroughly read this brochure and note reservation deadlines
and documents required for all trips.
• In consideration of those with allergies, please do not wear perfume
or cologne on trips.
• Note that some events require a minimum number of participants.
• Be sure to carefully review due dates. We have been forced to cancel
trips because people do not reserve prior to the deadline.
• If you cancel your trip and we cannot find a replacement, you may be
assessed the full amount of the trip.
• All cancellations are subject to a $10 penalty.
• Trips to Canada require a valid passport, passport card or enhanced
driver’s license.
• Prices ($20/$24) refer to JCC member/non-member.
PLEASE NOTE: Unless otherwise noted, pick-ups for Oak Park will be at
the Prentis Apartments on the former JCC-JPM campus.
RSVP immediately
Bus departure/return times:
West Bloomfield 11:40 a.m./3 p.m.
(There is no Oak Park pick-up for this trip)
“The Odd Couple” – Purple Rose Theatre in Chelsea,
preceded by lunch at the Common Grill
Thursday, February 11, 3 p.m. performance
$92/$102
Two suddenly single pals - a sloppy sportswriter and a neat-freak
news-writer - strain their relationship by turning roommates until
patterns of their disastrous marriages begin to reappear with
hilarious results.
DSO Coffee Concert: Tchaikovsky with Znaider
RSVP immediately
Bus departure/return times:
Oak Park 10:30 a.m./6:30 p.m.
West Bloomfield 11 a.m./6 p.m.
Sponsored by the Shirley Harris Fund
Harlem Dance Theatre – Detroit Opera House
Friday, January 29, 10:45 a.m. performance
$10/$15
Violinist and conductor Nikolai Znaider leads the DSO using both
bow and baton, from works by Mendelssohn and Mozart to the
explosive finale of Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony.
Program: Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 1
Mendelssohn Incidental Music for a “Midsummer Night’s Dream”
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4
RSVP immediately
Bus departure/return times:
Oak Park 9:30 a.m/1:15 p.m.
West Bloomfield 9 a.m./1:45 p.m.
“From Broadway to Obscurity” – Detroit Public Theatre,
followed by dinner (on your own) at Union Street
Co-sponsored by Congregation Sharey Zedek Seniors and
The Berman Center for Education
Sunday, January 31, 2:30 p.m. performance
$62/$72
Dreams collide in this hilariously revealing confessional from
a Broadway “Jersey Boy.” With songs, dead-on celebrity
impressions and a heart-warming narrative, Eric Gutman’s
autobiographical one-man musical details the rocky road from
attaining stardom to a complete change of heart. And when
getting what he wants isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, Eric’s internal
compass points him back to the values of community, faith,
family and tradition.
RSVP immediately
Bus departure/return times:
Sharey Zedek 1 p.m./7 p.m.
West Bloomfield 12:30 p.m./7:30 p.m.
DIA Trip sponsored by the Active Life and
Jewish Senior Life
Thursday, February 4
No charge
Join us for an afternoon at the DIA. Enjoy lunch on your own at
the café, followed by a 45-minute to one hour docent tour.
Sunday, February 14, 2:30 p.m. performance
$62/$72
The dynamism and boundless energy and talents of the Dance
Theatre of Harlem dazzle, delight and inspire.
RSVP immediately
Bus departure/return times:
Oak Park 1:30 p.m./5 p.m.
West Bloomfield 1 p.m./5:30 p.m.
“Cinderella” – Detroit Opera House
Sunday, February 28, 6:30 p.m. performance
$95/$105
Join us for a dazzling performance of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s
“Cinderella,” a Tony Award-winning Broadway musical that
features jaw-dropping beauty and all the moments you love:
the pumpkin, the glass slipper and the masked ball – plus
surprising twists.
RSVP by January 15
Bus departure/return times:
Oak Park 5:15 p.m./9:30 p.m.
West Bloomfield 4:45 p.m./10 p.m.
“Matilda, the Musical” – The Fisher Theatre
Thursday, March 10, 1 p.m. performance
$99/$109
Welcome to the deliriously amusing, heartwarming, head-spinning
world of Matilda. Winner of 50 international awards, including
four Tonys, “Matilda, the Musical” is based on the book by Roald
Dahl and tells the story of an extraordinary girl who, armed with
a vivid imagination and a sharp mind, dares to change her destiny.
RSVP by February 1
Bus departure/return times:
Oak Park 11:45 a.m./4:30 p.m.
West Bloomfield 11:15 a.m./5 p.m.
“The Tender Land” (dress rehearsal) – Macomb Center
for the Performing Arts
“Love Letters,” with Ali MacGraw and Ryan O’Neal –
The Fisher Theatre
Friday, March 11, 11 a.m. performance
Thursday, April 14, 1 p.m. performance
Aaron Copland’s magnificent “The Tender Land” is set in the
Midwest during the 1930s and tells the story of a headstrong girl
who falls in love with a drifter and is torn between her roots and
her desire to explore the world.
“Love Letters” is the story of two people from similar backgrounds
who take very different paths in life. Despite leading lives that
should not intersect, throughout 50 years of marriages and family
with other people, they can’t let go of each other.
RSVP by February 11
Bus departure/return times:
Oak Park 8:45 a.m./3 p.m.
West Bloomfield 8:15 a.m./3:30 p.m.
RSVP by March 12
Bus departure/return times:
Oak Park 11:45 p.m./4 p.m.
West Bloomfield 11:15 p.m./4:30 p.m.
“Calendar Girls” – Meadowbrook Theatre, preceded by
lunch at Kruse and Muer
DSO Coffee Concert: Ravishing Rachmaninoff
Wednesday, March 23, 2 p.m. performance
Friday, April 15
$59/$69
$92/$102
You’ve seen the movie. Now come enjoy the play based on the true
story of 11 middle-aged women who posed nude for a calendar to
raise money for the Leukemia Research Fund. “Calendar Girls” is
a hilarious and touching play.
RSVP by February 23
Bus departure/return times:
Oak Park 10 a.m./5:30 p.m.
West Bloomfield 10:30 a.m./5 p.m.
“If/Then” – The Fisher Theatre
Sunday, April 3, 2 p.m. performance
$105/$115
“If/Then” tells the story of living in New York today - and all the
possibilities of tomorrow. With unforgettable songs and a moving
story by the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning creators
of “Next to Normal,” this musical simultaneously follows one
woman’s two possible paths, painting a portrait of the lives we
lead and the lives we might have led.
RSVP by March 1
Bus departure/return times:
Oak Park 12:45 p.m./5:15 p.m.
West Bloomfield 12:15 p.m./5:45 p.m.
“Dancing Lessons”– The Jewish Ensemble Theatre,
preceded by lunch at the JCC and a talk by Chris Bremer,
executive director of the JET and director of
“Dancing Lessons”
Co-sponsored by Congregation Sharey Zedek Seniors and
The Berman Center for Education
Thursday, April 7: Lunch at noon/performance at 2 p.m.
$46/$56
This romantic comedy centers on a young man with Asperger’s
syndrome who asks a Broadway star to teach him enough dancing
to survive an awards dinner. As their relationship unfolds, both
are caught off-guard by the discoveries that they make about each
other and themselves.
$85/$95
Sponsored by the Shirley Harris Fund
$10/$15
Rapidly rising French piano virtosa Lise de LaSalle makes her DSO
debut, and Nashville Symphony’s sensational Giancarlo Guerrero
conducts this magnificent concert.
Program:
Sarah Kirkland Snider: Lebanhom (world premiere)
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 1
Stravinsky: “Petrushka”
RSVP immediately
Bus departure/return times:
Oak Park 9:30 a.m./1:15 p.m.
West Bloomfield 9 a.m./1:30 p.m.
Toledo Museum of Art – Docent tour of “Indigenous Beauty:
Masterworks of American Indian Art,” “Hot Spot:
Contemporary Glass” and Jaume Plensa’s “Human
Landscape,” plus lunch (on your own) at the museum cafe
Tuesday, April 26
$59/$69
“Indigenous Beauty” features more than 100 masterworks,
representing tribes across the North American continent, from
the Diker collection, one of the largest and most exquisite in
private hands. Guests also will see stunning works of art in glass
from private and corporate collections, plus “Human Landscape,”
a major exhibition consisting of seven large outdoor sculptures,
including some shown for the first time in the United States.
RSVP by March 26
Bus departure/return times:
Oak Park 8:30 a.m./6:30 p.m.
West Bloomfield 9 a.m./6 p.m.
“Kalamazoo” – The Jewish Ensemble Theatre, preceded by
a light dinner at the JCC
Thursday, May 5
Dinner at 5:30 p.m., performance at 7:30 p.m.
$46/$56
This romantic comedy about life’s second act follows two
mismatched seniors whose children have forced them into dating online. After their crazy, margarita-filled first date, the two
discover that love isn’t any easier the second time around.
RSVP by April 5