Da Kine
Monday, March 3, 1997

Local actors cast in 'Moon'

By Tim Ryan
Star-Bulletin

Hawaii casting for the motion picture "The Moon and Sixpence" is nearly completed with five Oahu residents getting bit parts but more to be selected on Kauai, where the majority of filming will be done in June.

The $10-million Victoria Films production starring Alan Rickman is scheduled to begin filming on Kauai June 9 for about three weeks, with maybe one day of filming on Oahu. Most of the filming is being done in Europe.

The screenplay by Christopher Hampton, who also is director, is based on the W. Somerset Maugham novel inspired by the life of painter Paul Gaugin. So Kauai will be doubling for Tahiti.

The story sets out to uncover the truth about a mysterious painter named Charles Strickland, who has run away to a South Pacific island. It depicts a dull, respectable stockbroker who flees his comfortable, middle-class existence to become an eccentric, rude, sensual artist in search of happiness and perfection.

Hampton, 51, was born in Fayal in the Azores in 1946. He received the 1995 Tony Award for Best Score and Best Book of a Musical for "Sunset Boulevard."

Your time for 'One Time'

If you can talk pidgin good, try come 'den.

Dey going make dat Lisa Matsumoto play, "Once Upon One Time," into one TV show and dey need some people fo' ack in 'em.

OK, OK, so dey looking for acktahs, acktahs who can sing li'dat and singers who can sing, all ages, male or female; also, one Asian adult female wit' one Chinese accent, tree Filipino men who going play women wit' Filipino accent and one Caucasian lady to play one fairy princess.

Main ting: Gotta know some pidgin English.

Da audition going be Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., 1:30 to 5:30 p.m. and 6 to 10 p.m. at Blaisdell Center Hawaii Conference Room 11.

Bring one headshot and your resume. Be reddy fo' tell one joke, give on short monologue and sing one song (can bring one tape fo' back you up).

If you like mo' info, call dis guy Hugh "M" Aoki at 251-0923.

Estefan tickets on sale

Tickets for the Gloria Estefan concert, previously available by mail order only, are on sale starting today at Blaisdell box office and through Connection outlets.

The remaining reserved seats are priced at $65. To order by phone, call 545-4000 or 1-800-333-3388.

The concert will be May 3 at 8 p.m. at Aloha Stadium.

The Cuban-born Estefan has been largely responsible for the cross-racial popularity of Latin music in the United States. Since 1977 she has recorded 18 albums including some in English and Spanish versions.



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