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June 4-5
Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center/Cabaret at the Columbia Club

Under most conditions, I wouldn’t steer you toward a high school singing event. But this is different. On June 4, the
10 finalists in the Second Annual Great American Songbook competition will participate in a master class with judges Michael
Feinstein and Sylvia McNair. The finals themselves will be June 5, with the winner scoring a trip to sing in New York with
Feinstein.

If you want to hear more from Feinstein, McNair and other talented judges, check out the fundraising dinner and performance
Saturday at the Cabaret at the Columbia Club. Details here.

June 4-5
500 N. College Ave.

Seven original art installations may not constitute a “nation,” but this second-annual event does create its
own unique world.

In a nutshell, artists were invited to create large-scale pieces, each housed in its own metal shipping container. Visitors
are invited to wander into these 20-foot-long creations to see what  Andrew Ball of Indianapolis, Xiaoou Sun of Bloomington,
Sara Wong of Terre Haute and others have created specifically for this weekend. Tents will house food and musicians to round
out this one-of-a-kind evening. Details here.

June 3-5
Various locations

One of Indy’s top architects, Evans Woollen, gets his due in a multi-part weekend of events. First, he’ll be
offering a June 3 lecture at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Then six Woollen-designed private homes built between 1955 and
1965 in the modernist style will be featured in a “Back to the Future” tour (maps available at the sites as well
as other locations, including Clowes Hall—which Woollen also designed). Finally, the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary
Art will open a show about him June 4. Details here.

June 9-July 3
Murat Theatre

If you had asked me a couple of years ago to name a singing group whose story I’d like to see brought to life on the
musical theater stage, I don’t think The Four Seasons would have been high on the list.

But through some sort of theatrical alchemy, director Des McAnuff, book writers Rick Elice and Marshall Brickman, solid casting
(at least the two times I’ve seen it elsewhere) and, yes, terrific song after song after song have turned what could
have been just a glorified, live episode of VH1’s “Behind the Music” into infectious, hurt-your-hands clapping
entertainment. It’s not just a hit machine, though. This is a show about people you care about.

This is the first Indianapolis stop for the national tour. Welcome to the neighborhood, guys. Details on the show here.  For tickets, click here.

Dr. Christopher B. “Topper” Doehring has been appointed vice president of medical affairs at St. Francis Hospital & Health Centers, effective June 7. That position had been held for the past five years by Dr. Alan Gillespie.

Larry Meade has been appointed marketing manager for oncology at St. Francis Hospital & Health Centers. He served as manager of marketing and advertising for Columbus Regional Hospital.

Kimberly Stettler has been appointed manager for central scheduling at St. Francis Hospital & Health Centers. Before joining St. Francis in 2006, Settler was a compliance auditor at the Indiana University School of Medicine.

Community Health Network has named Steve Bell vice president of supply-chain management. He held the same position for a Community subsidiary, Visionary Enterprises Inc. Bell replaces the retiring Charlie Greve.

Dr. Peter W. McCauley Sr. has been named the new Midwest market medical executive for Cigna HealthCare. Based in Chicago, McCauley is responsible for customer health care services and Cigna’s physician and hospital network across Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Most recently, McCauley oversaw more than 200 physicians at Gottlieb/West Towns PHO in Melrose Park, Ill.

Eli Lilly and Co. is a likely suitor for two cancer drug developers, according to unnamed sources interviewed
by The Financial Times. The Indianapolis-based drugmaker has made cancer its most intense area of new drug investment—as
have many of its peers. The company was outbid last year for Gloucester Pharmaceuticals, which was scooped up by New Jersey-based
Celgene Corp. Now, industry insiders believe Lilly will bid for Gloucester’s competitor in the race to develop the next
lung cancer drug, Colorado-based Allos Therapeutics Inc. Also, Lilly is a likely bidder for Washington-based Seattle Genetics
Inc., which is developing drugs to treat leukemia and Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

With funding still spotty for medical and biotech startups, a huge amount of attention is focusing on Qualified Therapeutic
Discovery Project Credits, which will award $1 billion in tax breaks to small companies developing products that help diagnose,
treat or prevent illnesses. Each business can receive a credit for as much of half its investment into qualified research
and testing of its products, according to a description of the act by Bingham McHale, an Indianapolis law
firm hoping to win clients by helping them apply. The credit will be paid in cash if a company has little to no tax liability.
Only companies that have 250 or fewer employees (of any type) can receive the credits.

Roche Diagnostics won approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its test of antibodies that
build up to fight the hepatitis C virus in human fluids. The Elecsys Anti-HCV can be performed on certain models of Roche
Diagnostics’ Cobas and Modular Analytics machines. In April, Roche received FDA clearance for another immunoassay in
its infectious-disease portfolio, Rubella IgM. Roche Diagnostics operates its North American business out of Indianapolis.

Michiana Health Information Network has added Elkhart General Healthcare System to its health information
exchange service. Doctors in Elkhart can now receive electronic copies of medical records and laboratory results from Elkhart
General Hospital quickly and without the privacy issues of e-mail. Once fully implemented, all Elkhart physicians with electronic
health records will have the ability to instantly receive hospital reports, laboratory results and radiology reports directly
into their EHR systems. Michiana Health Information Network, established in 1999, includes more than 3,200 community health
care professionals in northern Indiana and southwest Michigan.

In its latest response to withering criticism of its breast-cancer policies, WellPoint Inc. started Tuesday
to pay for all breast cancer patients to stay two days in a hospital after mastectomy surgery. Some states already require
insurers to cover hospital stays of 48 hours if the patient and her doctor wanted that much time for recovery after mastectomy
surgery. But Indiana requires payment only for a 24-hour stay. Now, WellPoint will make the 48-hour policy standard for its
customers in any state. Indianapolis-based WellPoint has been under fire since a Reuters article in April said the company
uses a computer algorithm to target breast cancer patients for cancellation of their policies. WellPoint has repeatedly called
the article’s claims “inaccurate and grossly misleading.” But the article provided the basis for sharp criticism
of WellPoint from President Obama, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and dozens of members of Congress.