– The national tour of Adam Guettel and Craig Lucas’ Broadway musical “The Light in the Piazza” is headed to Chicago. The tour, which will star Christine Andreas in the lead role of Margaret, has been booked into the Auditorium Theatre, July 10-22, 2007. An earlier version of this show–which is still playing on Broadway–was seen at the Goodman Theatre in 2004.
– Pete Doherty was fined $1,900 after Swedish police found traces of cocaine in his blood following a performance by his rock band at the Hultsfred music festival. Police detained the 27-year-old Babyshambles frontman after the concert because “he showed signs of being under the influence of narcotics,” a police spokesman in the city of Kalmar said Saturday. Earlier this month, Doherty had checked himself into a detox clinic in Portugal following several arrests in London for drug possession, his lawyer said.
– Nicole Kidman and fiance Keith Urban came home to Australia on Monday to be married, they said in a joint statement. “We are very happy to be back in Australia,” they said. Australian media have widely speculated that Kidman, who will be 39 on Tuesday, and Urban, 38, will wed June 25 at a Catholic church in a northern Sydney suburb close to where Kidman, who was born in Hawaii, attended high school.
– Jerry Lewis was preparing for his annual Labor Day telethon as he recuperates on his boat in San Diego after heart surgery, his manager said Monday. Lewis, 80, was released from a hospital Saturday after having surgery to insert a stent in an artery following a June 11 heart attack.
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The Personals page was compiled by Cheryl Bowles from Tribune news services and staff reports.
