Hawaii
Tom Moffatt salute reaps
$50,000 for Manoa theaterTHERE are some smiling faces up Manoa Valley Theatre way. They've finally totaled up the take from the salute to Uncle Tom Moffatt, complete with silent auction at the Hilton Hawaiian Village, and the grant total for MVT was, insert fanfare, $50,000 ... Meanwhile, Nicholas Hormann, an early member of MVT's predecessor, Hawaii Performing Arts Company, has been offered the lead in "Wintertime," a world premiere at La Jolla Playhouse this summer. The brother of local actress Sylvia Hormann-Alper, Nicholas attended University high School and went to Yale School of Drama. La Jolla Playhouse is making quite a name for itself, having launched such hits as "Rent," "The Who's Tommy" and "Big River." Hormann is currently finishing a run of "Making It," also a world premiere, at the South Coast Repertory Company in Costa Mesa, Calif. ...
SITCOM writer/director Ken Levine, who celebrated the holidays on Maui, wrote last night's episode of "Frasier" with guest star Michael Keaton. If you look close, Levine e-mails, you might see my partner and me sitting in the crowd in the Christian revival scene. "Where else would we be?" asks Levine, who is Jewish ... "Barney" fans can compete to sing the dinosaur's "I Love You" song when the purple people pleaser appears at "Sunset on the Beach" April 27 & 28 to launch his new video, "Barney on the Beach." KHET is conducting a search for one child and one adult to sing a duet of the Barney anthem during the station's 2002 Membership Challenge March 14. Deadline to compete in the contest is March 8. For rules and an entry form, call 973-1990 ...
Hugh send me
BIZET's classic opera "Carmen" opens Friday at the Blaisdell Concert Hall, so you may well be hearing the toreador song at Wahiawa General Hospital. That's where Dr. Hugh Hazenfield operates, and as befits a member of the Hawaii Opera Theatre board, plays opera music while operating. All last week he played "Salome," which HOT was presenting, and OR nurse Gene Karma found herself getting hooked. She went to the opera, loved it, and now likes going to work even more than usual, what with opera in the background ...SINGER Kenny Loggins is one of those performers who doesn't have to be asked twice to come to Hawaii and sing. He recently played for a Hewlett Packard group at the Hilton Waikoloa Village, and took family and friends to the resort's Imari Japanese Restaurant, and sang the praises of Chef Nobu's "inside-out" sushi ...
Preis club
THEY'RE giving outgoing Academy of Arts director George Ellis plenty of time to write an acceptance speech. On Oct. 5 he'll be honored with the prestigious Alfred Preis award for lifetime achievement in the arts, given by the Hawaii Alliance for Arts Education at the Hawaii Theater. A special recognition award also will be presented to Jane Campbell, recently retired from the Honolulu Theater for Youth. Preis, an architect best known for creating the USS Arizona Memorial, was the first head of the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts. Ukulele artist Jake Shimabukuro, who recently signed on as spokesperson for the Alliance, will headline the entertainment ...
Dave Donnelly has been writing on happenings
in Hawaii for the Star-Bulletin since 1968.
The Week That Was recalls items from Dave's 30 years of columns.Contact Dave by e-mail: ddonnelly@starbulletin.com