In the Police song “Born in the ’50s,” Sting sings, “My mother cried when President Kennedy died.” I wasn’t born yet but clearly remember both of my parents sharing how that day changed their lives, and mentality, on the 20th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination in November of ...
The first time I met Jonathan Lehman was in the Maui Academy of Performing Arts production of “The Music Man” in 2008. I took notice of his script binder labeled with his name and a “Music Man” graphic that he had obviously printed himself. This was an organized, detail-oriented ...
The September theater lull has certainly subsided as nine productions will now be in performance over the next five weeks. On Sunday, I attended the Hawaii premiere of Rick Scheideman’s “The Old Man and the Sea,” adapted from the Ernest Hemingway novel specifically for him by Alice ...
"Drink up, it's going to be a bumpy night." These words, uttered by the long-suffering French housekeeper Berthe, sum up the premise of Marc Camoletti's classic farce, "Boeing Boeing," which lands at the Historic Iao Theater in Wailuku on Friday.Maui OnStage will present the Maui premiere of the 2008 Tony Award-winning revival of Camoletti's French play, which was translated by Beverly Cross and revised by Francis Evans. "Boeing Boeing" opened on Broadway in 1965, the same year the film adaptation, starring Jerry Lewis and Tony Curtis, hit theaters. In addition to receiving a slew of ...
Within the literary world of the 1920s and '30s, Ernest Hemingway was a rock star, and a king amongst the Parisian "Lost Generation" community comprised of Sylvia Beach, Aaron Copland, Isadora Duncan, T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, George Gershwin, Aldous Huxley, James Joyce, Henry Miller, Ezra Pound, Sergei Prokofiev, Erich Maria Remarque, John Steinbeck, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. Their headquarters were Beach's Shakespeare & Company bookstore where many original manuscripts are on display to this day, located just down the street from Notre Dame de ...
