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JANUARY 29, 2026 • Vol. 45, No.2
Hill child care facility not moving forward
Shores native lands role in ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ BY K. MICHELLE MORAN
BY K. MICHELLE MORAN
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DETROIT/SHORES — Some families enjoy camping or riding bikes with each other. In Jeremy Harr’s family, it was musical theater that brought them together. “It’s been a part of my family as long as I can remember,” said Harr, 30, who grew up in Grosse Pointe Shores. “That became what I did as a kid and what we did as a family.” Something he once did for fun has become Harr’s career. A professional opera singer and actor, he’ll be back home for his first major appearance here as part of a new national touring production of “The Phantom of the Opera,” which will be staged Feb. 4 to 15 at the Detroit Opera House. In “Phantom,” Harr plays the comical role of Don Attilio, a character in the fictional opera “Il Muto.” “He’s a buffoonish husband who has no idea his wife is having an affair,” Harr said. As a bass, Harr wouldn’t be able to land most of the roles available in modern musical theater,
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RIGHT: Jeremy Harr, who grew up in Grosse Pointe Shores, will have in his first major appearance in Detroit as part of a new national touring production of “The Phantom of the Opera,” which will be staged Feb. 4 to 15 at the Detroit Opera House. ABOVE: Isaiah Bailey plays The Phantom and Jordan Lee Gilbert is Christine Daaé in “The Phantom of the Opera.”
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FARMS — Despite what residents and officials alike acknowledge is a need for more child care in the area, it doesn’t appear that an early child care center will be coming to the Hill anytime soon. After it was clear there wasn’t enough support around the council table, Eig14t Commercial Real Estate, the developers behind a proposed child care facility at 107 Kercheval Ave. — the site of the shuttered Rite Aid store and pharmacy — withdrew their request for preliminary site plan approval at a Jan. 12 Grosse Pointe Farms City Council meeting. The developers wanted to bring the London-based N Family Club — also known as the N Family School — to the Pointes. The Farms site would have been the first time this program was operating in the United States. As the developers explained to the coun-