*The troubled Broadway musical “The Pirate Queen” has posted its closing notice in New York. The show will close June 17 with producers John McColgan and Moya Doherty likely losing more than $10 million. It’s the end of a depressing American voyage for Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg’s Irish-themed musical — which had a choppy tryout in Chicago last fall under Frank Galati’s direction.
*Ravinia Festival will commission up to 10 chamber music works that incorporate Abraham Lincoln’s words, using a $70,000 grant from the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission. The pieces are to be performed by young artists around the state. This was the largest of more than $440,000 in grants awarded to 14 Illinois groups for programs marking the 2009 bicentennial of Lincoln’s birth.
*Gisele Bundchen is making headlines at fashion week in Rio de Janeiro for criticizing the Roman Catholic Church’s opposition to condom use and abortion. The model told a newspaper in Brazil that the church’s take is hopelessly outdated because it was adopted when “the women were virgins, the guys were virgins.”
*Pictures from the 1997 car crash that killed Princess Diana were aired Wednesday night on British TV, despite her sons’ plea. Channel 4’s documentary, “Diana: The Witness in the Tunnel,” showed photos of the inside of the car, including one of a doctor attending to Diana. Her face was obscured.
*Doomsday has been averted for CBS’ “Jericho.” The drama was canceled in May, but a fan campaign persuaded CBS to bring it back for seven more episodes sometime next season.
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Personals was compiled by Valentina Djeljosevic from Tribune news services and staff reports.
