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The musical comedy "Chicago" is a smash hit. The dancing by the entire cast and the choreography by Bob Fosse is terrific. Tonya Wathen is a ‘Chicago’ and
all that jazzknockout playing chorus girl Roxie Hart, who guns down her lover as he is walking out on her. Roxie's flamboyant Chicago lawyer, played by Alex Torella, stands out as does Heather Parcells as Velma Kelly, another showgirl in the slammer. Stewart Brown is Roxie's lovesick, homely husband. He feels people consider him invisible or transparent. His "Mister Cellophane" number was great. The matron, Maureen Veronica Illmensee, also shines. The ensemble dancing is a joy. The jazzy orchestra, positioned on stage, is solid. Dig into your savings, if necessary, to see this show, playing at the Concert Hall through Oct. 29. It's worth it ...
Pops concert highlights
Michael McDonald, Henry Kapono, conductor Matt Catingub and the Honolulu Pops put on an outstanding pops concert last Saturday night. The best was when McDonald sang songs from his Doobie Brothers days and when he had Kapono sing with him. The crowd brought Mac back for encores. Catingub got in hot licks on his alto sax during the night. Kapono's four-song set had the crowd wanting more. Concertmaster Iggy Jang was a gas, playing a swinging violin solo on a song from the Rack Pack's "Oceans 11" film while wearing shades and with a cigarette hanging from his lips. Dean Martin would have loved it ... Catingub is making his home in Hawaii. That's for sure because his dogs are in quarantine ... Cellist Han-Na Chang performs Ravel's "Bolero" tomorrow and Tuesday with the Honolulu Symphony in the Concert Hall ...Jack "Tihati" Thompson is sharpening his golf game because his Tihati Pro-Am will open the Williams & Associates Hawaii State Open at the Hawaii Prince Wednesday. The tourney runs Thursday through Saturday ... "New York is going wild about the Subway Series between the Mets and Yanks," emails former Star-Bulletin staffer Jennifer Ablan, now working for Dow Jones, publisher of the Wall Street Journal. She says Benny Agbayani has been featured and pictured in the N.Y. Times and Daily News. "Boy, is he a rising star here" ... Sneak Peek Opera Night, with previews of "the marriage of Figaro" and "The Tales of Hoffman," will be 6:30 p.m. Thursday at Diamond head Grill ...
Mercedes launched its 2001 C Class car Thursday, with the help of the hot Paradise Sisters and food from Indigo, at TheoDavis Euromoters. The party had Euromoters chief Gary Wassel and Mercedes sales boss Rick McMahon in good spirits ...
Polo season has lively finish
The Honolulu polo Club's season wound up with a bang Sunday at Waimanalo with guests chowing down on pot luck food and dancing to the Local Folks band after the match. Hawaii Polo Inn beat International Travel Service, 5-2. Cynthia Child gave club Prez Allen Hoe, Chairman Emeritus Bob MacGregor and the players lei. Murph Dailey, widow of Hawaii's former Mr. Polo, Fred Dailey, was there to watch her grandson, Devon, play. "He reminds me a little bit of Fred," she said of the 16-year-old who stands 6 feet 3. Her son, Mike, did not take part Sunday as he was at a polo convention in Las Vegas ... I'll be off next week holding the Mini-Benny Birthday Tourney for Wobbly Golfers and Worthy Women on Thursday, my birthday, at the lush Navy Marine course. I'm honored that former POW Jerry Coffee will play ...
Ben Wood, who sold the Star-Bulletin in the streets
of downtown Honolulu during World War II, writes of
people, places and things every Saturday.
E-mail him at bwood@starbulletin.com