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Saturday 15
“We wanted to do new musicals but found out there were very few new musicals that were any good,” says Joan Mazzonelli, company manager for New Tuners Theatre. “It’s incredible, but we don’t have a production company in the country that produces new musicals regularly, not even in New York.” So WIT decided to create Making Tuners, its own program of workshops on creating new musical scripts. An open house for interested writers and composers will be held at 2 today in the Theatre Building, 1225 W. Belmont. It’s free. For reservations, applications for the fall program, and other information, call 929-7367.
Just when it seemed things couldn’t get worse for the last-place White Sox, its Vancouver farm team refused to take the field and forfeited a game. Turns out the players mutinied because their paychecks were nearly a week late. Minnie Minoso, the former south-side home-run king, will have to take a walk down memory lane in order to keep things upbeat at today’s Celebrity Sports Luncheon, a benefit for Josephinum High School, the Catholic girls’ school in Humboldt Park. Mike McClure, the Sox marketing vice president, will be along–with a whole bunch of excuses, no doubt–as will former broadcaster Frank Diaz, who just joined the Sox PR team. It all begins at noon at Leona’s, 1936 W. Augusta. Tickets are $20. For reservations call 276-1261.
Last spring the general assembly defeated Representative John Cullerton’s “hate crimes” bill with a razor-thin 52-to-51 vote. The north-side rep had arugued that antigay violence is on the rise, with 14 incidents reported in April in Chicago. Cullerton couldn’t muster enough votes for a reconsideration, so he then tried unsuccessfully to piggyback the bill on Senator Dawn Clark Netsch’s rape-statistics bill. Cullerton’s proposals may be floundering in the legislature, but Horizons Community Services’ Anti-violence Project is offering a six-week self-defense course, beginning at 7 tonight at 3225 N. Sheffield. It costs $45. Call 472-6469.
