Portland State Magazine Winter 2010

Working in song THE HOPES and aspirations of working Americans-waitresses, millworkers, corporate executives, and many others-are reflected in the songs and monologues of the musical, Working, playing at Artists Reper– tory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison Street, March 5 through 13. The Theater Arts Department is taking on the stage adaptation of Working, a Studs Terkel best-selling oral history. The lace Terkel, a longtime writer and Chicago radio personality, wrote the book in 1974 from his interviews with regular working men and women. The musical sets their everyday lives to song, including some original scores by singer songwriter James Taylor. Performances are Tuesday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, March 7, at 2 p.m. Tickers may be purchased at the PSU Box office, 503-725-3307, or through TicketMaster. ■ Teeing up for Hollywood AT 4 A. M ., most of us are sound asleep. But for the past four years, Steve Lundin '87 has been wide awake and writing until it's time to go to work at the engineering business he owns with his in-laws. His early morning efforrs have paid off. His first novel, Shooting an Albatross, is a psychological thriller set in 1943, a year in which the PGA cancelled professional golf, leaving a perfect opportunity for the Army, which was occupying El Rancho Golf Course, to play the Navy. The book follows Private Evan Wilkins through a tale of love, rivalry, murder, and golf. Lundin's wake-up call, so co speak, came in the form of a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis in 1995. "This illness made me see that I didn't wane to be some 90-year-old guy saying that I wane co write, but never having done it." So he rook up his longtime goal of becoming a writer. Shooting an Albatross reeled in producer Jon Fitzgerald, a veteran of studio and inde– pendent films as well as a golfer. Fitzgerald bought the option to make a film based on Lundin's novel and commissioned the writer to adapt it into a screenplay. Lundin says it's too soon to tell when, or i£ his words will make it to the screen, but adds, "Listen co these cool words: he's send– ing it out to talent and financiers!" ■ FANFARE New Works By Dan Clore '95, Hippoeampus Press, 2009 By Regina G. Lawrena: at Melody Rose (polid– tal ~ faculty). Lynne 1lienntr Publimers. 2009 By Jim Lommasson '75, Oqon Stat.e Unmrsity ~2009 ~ by Paul~ and Vupila ~ '86, Hand Crafted Publiat,. tioll$,2009 WINTER 2010 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE 7