THE 48-HOUR WHO: Work crews started setting...

THE 48-HOUR WHO: Work crews started setting up the stage early Monday morning for “The Who’s Tommy,” which opens tonight at the Orange County Performing Arts Center. “It’s the most lavish Broadway production we’ve ever had,” says spokesman Greg Patterson. “They’re working round the clock to be ready.” . . . Only a few tickets remain for the touring rock opera, which runs tonight through Sunday.

FINALLY BREWING: There’s something else new at the Orange County Performing Arts Center besides “Tommy.” The house has started selling coffee for the first time. . . . It wasn’t served before out of fear that it would stain the carpet of the pristine facility. But new executive director Tom Tomlinson ordered up the brew. “People just love it,” Patterson says. It’s available on the terrace.

FOR JIMMY: Chapman University officials wanted to throw a dinner to honor Supervisor Thomas F. Riley for heading up its committee to renovate Founders Hall. Riley agreed, on one condition: That the dinner--Wednesday night at the Irvine Hyatt Regency--be a fund-raiser for the renovation. The hall will be renamed Roosevelt Hall--for Riley’s friend and former congressman James Roosevelt, a longtime Chapman trustee until his death in 1991. The event, which will include Roosevelt’s widow, Mary (above, with her husband), is likely to raise about $100,000.

VOTE FOR CAPITALISM: It was the only mishap on a recent successful visit by two visiting Chinese officials: One of them left under a hotel pillow a purse containing U.S. and Hong Kong dollars, valued at more than $1,500. A maid at the Desert Palm Suites in Anaheim found it and turned it in. The America China Business Society in Anaheim, which arranged the visit, helped get it back to them. . . . The society’s director, Jonathan Zhong Ding, says the visitors were touched. He calls it “a sharp contrast to what was taught to their generations in China regarding capitalism.”