Hawaii
By Dave Donnelly
WHILE making the rounds of his Manoa district, Neighborhood Board candidate Hank Chapin discovered how St. Francis of Assisi must have felt. Chapin found that birds of many a feather -- Brazilian cardinals, doves, sparrows and ducks -- flock to anyone pausing at the Kahaloa Place Bridge that crosses Manoa Stream at the entrance to Manoa Park. "It's quite remarkable," says Chapin. "They seem to come from everywhere." ... Sorry to hear that Hawaii radio and TV figure Cecil Seavey died in Phoenix on March 21 ... Hawaiian Islanders owner Kimberly Wang and G.M. Chris Dey, enjoyed their opener of the Arena Football League by beating the Green Bay Blizzard. Joining them in their private suite were UH coach June Jones and athletic director Herman Frazier ... Politician has birds
of many feathersCOMIC Frank DeLima again had the Perry & Price Hanohano Room radio audience in stitches as he went on to promote this weekend's Spam Jam Festival in Waikiki. The irrepressible DeLima got the normally serious young men of the Brown University a capella choir, the Jabberwocks, to sing his popular number, "Spam Musubi." The boys really enjoy hamming it up -- or perhaps we should say "Spamming it up." ... Larry Price asked the choir where the most dangerous place they'd performed and some shouted out "Korea." Which one, asked Price? "South Korea," came the reply. "That's not dangerous," Price opined, "that's like going downtown." ...
The play's the thing
So often do we complain that most theater groups in Honolulu present too many musicals and not enough straight plays, that it's a pleasure to note several in the offing. HPU is doing Paul Osborn's "Mornings at Seven," April 11 to May 11 at HPU with Joyce Maltby directing ... TAG, The Actors' Group, will present Conor McPherson's "The Weir," set in a rural Irish pub. I'm directing a fine cast in this one, running April 16 to May 11 at the Yellow Brick Studio at 625 Keawe St. ... And Joe Moore's play about backdoor doings on in the local TV industry, "Dirty Laundry," will be performed four times, April 18 to 20 ...
The Bard walk
EVEN Shakespeare is getting a nice airing this summer. The Honolulu Symphony is presenting two works based on witings of the Bard. Strauss' "Macbeth" and Mendelsson's "Midsummer Night's Dream" will be presented Friday and Sunday at the Blaisdell Concert Hall with Terence Knapp and Eden-Lee Murray acting as narrators ... And the Hawaii Shakespeare Festival will be holding several auditions this month. There'll be readings at Windward Community College's Palika Theatre from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday. Auditions will be held at the Earle Ernst Lab Theatre at UH from 4 to 8 p.m. April 9, again from 1 to 5 p.m. on April 12 at Leeward Community College's Lab Theatre, and 1 to 5 p.m. April 13 at Mid-Pacific Institute's Kawaiahao Theatre. Three plays will be featured in July and August with Tony Pisculli, R. Kevin Doyle and Harry Wong directing "Macbeth," "Henry IV: Part 1" and "Twelfth Night" respectively ...
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