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Get Out: Maine West Baseball, Relay for Life Breakfast, 'War Horse,' More

Des Plaines Patch's community event calendar lists tons of stuff to do.

When/Where: Saturday, May 5, from 8 to 11 a.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church, 675 E. Algonquin Road in Des Plaines.

Why Go: Show your support for cancer research and awareness, and for the Des Plaines/Park Ridge Relay for Life team, by digging into a stack of fluffy flapjacks.

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Pricing: $10 for adults, $5 for children 12 years old and younger, or $30 for families of five or more.

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When/Where: Saturday, May 5, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Depart from and return to Mountain View Adventure Center, 510 E. Algonquin Road in Des Plaines.

Why Go: The Plainfield Bike Park includes progressive table jumps, a pump track and skills area.

Pricing: $15.

When/Where: Saturday, May 5 at 1:30 p.m. at Maine West High School, 1755 S. Wolf Road in Des Plaines.

Why Go: Come cheer on the Warriors and Wildkits as they go head-to-head in a high school baseball game.

Pricing: Free.

Related: Check out all the great things to do in Des Plaines this weekend, and add your own events to the community calendar.

When/Where: Sunday, May 6, from 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Des Plaines Public Library, 1501 Ellinwood Ave. in Des Plaines.

Why Go: Watch the acclaimed Steven Spielberg film, released in 2011, that is set during World War I.

Pricing: Free.

When/Where: Sunday, May 6, from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. at Maine West High School, 1755 S. Wolf Road in Des Plaines.

Why Go: The Northwest Symphony Orchestra will conclude its 60th anniversary season with a Pops Concert on Sunday May 6, 2012, at 3:30 PM, in the Theatre for the Performing Arts at Maine West High School, 1755 S. Wolf Road in Des Plaines.  The concert features this year’s winner of the Paul Vermel Young Artist Award, cellist Austin Huntington, who will perform Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto in E minor. Under the direction of its award-winning conductor, Paul Vermel, the orchestra will also play Leonard Bernstein’s Overture to West Side Story, a Gershwin Medley arranged by Chuck Sayre, highlights from Richard Rodgers’ The King and I, and Johann Strauss Jr.’s Tändelei (Flirtation) Polka/Mazurka.

Pricing: $20 for adults, $15 for seniors, $10 for students and children under age 14 are admitted free when accompanies by a paying adult.

When/Where: Friday, May 4 at 8 p.m., Saturday, May 5 at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m., and Sunday, May 6 at 3 p.m. at , 515 E. Thacker St. in Des Plaines.

Why Go: Do you like music? If you answered yes to that question, then you will want to check out Big Noise Theatre’s latest production of Leader of the Pack, the story of Ellie Greenwich’s rise to fame and fortune, directed by Nancy Flaster, with choreography by Flaster and Ann Fink, and music direction by Robert Deason.

Originally presented on Broadway in 1985, Leader of the Pack was ahead of its time as one of the first jukebox musicals ever created.

Greenwich rises from her humble beginnings and collaborates with her writing partner and short-term husband, Jeff Barry. She is well known for writing some of the most skyrocketing doo-wop songs of the 60s pop charts.

The musical’s score is punctuated with a hit parade of Greenwich’s music: Chapel of Love, Da Do Ron Ron, Be My Baby, Hanky Panky, Do Wah Diddy, And Then He Kissed Me and, of course, the title song.

Pricing: $24 for adults, $22 for seniors, $16 for children 12 years old and younger.

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