On the Scene
Remembering Trappers: Jimmy Borges, left, Wynton Marsalis, center, and Noel Okimoto reminisced backstage Wednesday at the Blaisdell Concert Hall after Marsalis led his Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra in a brilliant performance. Borges and Okimoto first met Marsalis in the 1980s, when he sat in with them at Trappers.
BAD, RusselL, BAD: Celebrating at the opening-night party for Hawaii Pacific University's "Death of a Salesman" on Friday were, from left, Anette Kauahikaua, Russell Motter, Stefanie Anderson, Richard Pellett and Dean Turner. Motter, who usually plays nasty characters onstage, is the unsympathetic boss in "Salesman." A bigger thrill for him recently was having Wynton Marsalis talk to his students at Iolani (Motter was Marsalis' driver here in the 1980s).
GREAT Job Nyla!: Christy Hauptman, left, and Moses Goods III congratulated Nyla Ching-Fujii at the after-show party that celebrated the opening of Kumu Kahua's revival of "The Conversion of Ka'ahumanu" on Thursday. Ching-Fujii stars as Ka'ahumanu, Hauptman designed the costumes and the versatile Goods is running sound and lights.
John Berger has covered the local
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