Theater: The Maltz Jupiter Theatre, it seems, keeps getting better as the challenges it selects increase. There is perhaps no more difficult a musical for a theater of the Maltz’s size to carry off than Les Misérables, but director Mark Martino makes it look easy. He gives the epic show a cinematic sweep, without resorting to the show’s original turntable staging. Yes, he hedges his bets a little by casting two veterans of the show, Gregg Goodbrod and Aloysius Gigl, as petty thief turned mayor Jean Valjean and his obsessive pursuer Inspector Javert, but hear them sing the Boublil-Schönberg score and you wouldn’t want it any other way. Among the crew of brilliant designers, scenic artist Paul Tate DePoo III is particularly inventive with his take on the student rebellion barricades and other locales throughout Paris. Through April 5. Call 561-575-2223 for tickets.
Film: A “gett” is a Hebrew divorce document, granted by the husband to the wife in the very inequitable marital laws of Israel. For a look into this bizarre justice system as it relates to getting unhitched, see Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem, a Kafkaesque view down the rabbit hole of rabbinical law. Ronit Elkabetz, one of the film’s co-directors, also stars as Viviane, who has been petitioning the court for three years for a divorce. But since her husband stubbornly refuses, and incompatibility is insufficient grounds for divorce, Viviane and her lawyer are stuck in limbo, where they remain for two more years. The film is necessarily talky, but Elkabetz manages to keep it from seeming overly static. Whether or not you have ever been in this situation, you are likely to find Viviane’s quandary compelling. At the Living Room Theaters on the FAU campus in Boca Raton.
Music: Tonight and tomorrow, Guillermo Figueroa and the Lynn Philharmonia continue the conductor’s steady diet of contemporary music with a piece by Marshall Turkin, former executive director of the Detroit and Pittsburgh symphonies, and founder of The Symphonia Boca Raton. He’s returned to composition in his late 80s, having originally planned on such a career before switching to administration. Turkin’s In Memoriam is on a program with another American work, Christopher Rouse’s Der Geretette Alberich, a percussion concerto inspired by Wagner, and Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony (No. 3 in E-flat, Op. 55). The concerts begin at 7:30 tonight and 4 p.m. Sunday at the Wold Performing Arts Center on the campus of Lynn University in Boca Raton. Call 237-9000 for tickets or more information.
The third and last mainstage production of the season at Palm Beach Opera continues tonight and Sunday with Gaetano Donizetti’s “La Fille du Regiment,” a sunny comedy from 1840 about love, loyalty, friendship and family. It’s one of Donizetti’s most immediately appealing scores, not least for its Act I showcase aria, “A mes amis,” when the tenor playing Tonio has to sing nine high C’s (if he nails it, expect the audience to make him do it again). Tonight’s performance at the Kravis Center will feature Young Artist Bridgette Gan, filling in for an indisposed Erin Morley, while Sunday’s cast features soprano Sydney Mancasola; Andrew Bidlack is Tonio tonight at 7:30 and Taylor Stayton takes the role tomorrow afternoon at 2 p.m. Expect plenty of fun and fine singing either performance. Call 833-7888 or visit www.pbopera.org for more information.