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Musical chairs for
the two SOS groupsWHILE the SOS-Las Vegas performs locally at the Outrigger, the original Society of Seven, ironically, is performing in Vegas. They're at the Aladdin where a 400-seat showroom has been designed just for them. They're also featured on billboards with the SOS name printed on shuttle buses. All this comes from Blake Nuibe, for many years director of the Honolulu Boy Choir. Nuibe thrilled all in the SOS, especially Bert Sagum by bringing them 20 pounds of Zippy's chili and 10 pounds of Portuguese sausage. And after 12 years with the Boy Choir, Nuibe couldn't resist taking in the first solo Vegas concert by Charlotte Church, the 17-year old soprano from Wales who has wowed people from around the globe. She sang like an angel, but giggled like the teen she is when she sang, and vowed to return to Vegas once she turned 21. Church mentioned her recent trip to Hawaii, Nuibe reports, and introduced her next number as being "about Hawaii." Nuibe was all ears, only going "auwe" when she sang "Bali Hai." Well, the number that appeared in the film "South Pacific" was filmed at Lumahai Beach on Kauai ...
I'M happy to report that young singer/actress Kathleen Stuart, who's appeared in many musicals in Hawaii between her getting a degree from Mountview Academy in London, has broken through and got her first paying gig. It's not "big stuff," reports the youthful singer, but it's a start. She's playing Ethel Merman at a luncheon theater in New Jersey. She gave a gangbusters portrayal of Merman in Manoa Valley Theatre's "Best of Broadway" a few seasons back. After the Jersey run is over, she'll move on to a summerstock production of "The World is Round," another musical she did at MVT, at Bristol Valley Theatre in Naples, N.Y. Kathleen reports she also attended the wedding last Saturday of Sheilah Sealy, who was in the same "World is Round" production in Manoa ...
A pair of pairs
WHEN the Brothers Cazimero appeared on Saturday's Perry & Price Hanohano Room radio show to promote their May Day concert, the phone on which the P's get breaking news rang. Show producer Sweetie Pacarro quickly answered it, only to find the "breaking news" was a telemarketer for a newspaper -- not this one -- trying to sell a subscription. Pass ... Pacarro also showed off a pair of champagne-colored diamond earrings to be given away, and when told they looked like the earrings made popular by Jennifer Lopez, said that while she was flattered to be compared to J-Lo, she probably more closely resembles Jell-o ...
Watts new?
PIANIST Andre Watts will be featured playing Brahms at a concert to honor local piano teacher Ellen Masaki on May 20 at the Blaisdell Concert Hall. Appearing on the same program is pianist Sean Kennard doing Rachmaninoff. And Jon Nakamatsu will give a piano recital honoring Masaki on May 27 a the Concert Hall ...
Dave Donnelly has been writing on happenings
in Hawaii for the Star-Bulletin since 1968.
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