J: MAUI ONSTAGE IS CLOSING OUT THEIR 2014-15 SEASON WITH ANDREW LIPPA, MARSHALL BRICKMAN AND RICK ELICE?S ADDAMS? FAMILY: THE NEW MUSICAL. WE HAVE A SPECIAL GUEST FOR CURTAIN CALL TODAY, THE BUTLER AND GENERAL FACTOTUM OF THE ADDAMS? FAMILY LURCH.

PJB: IT IS MY PLEASURE TO COME BEFORE YOU TODAY TO TALK ABOUT MY BOSS AND HIS FAMILY. FIRST ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE MYSELF, I AM LURCH, THE FAMILY?S BUTLER, AND GO TO GUY. MY BOSS IS GOMEZ FLORENCIA ADDAMS PLAYED BY JERRY EITING WHO MANY OF YOU WILL REMEMBER AS THE AMAZING JAVERT IN MAPA?S LEGENDARY PRODUCTION OF LES MIS. HE IS THE PATRIARCH OF THE FAMILY, HE IS GIVEN TO FLIGHTS OF FANCY AND LOVES THE MOTHER OF HIS CHILDREN, THE LOVE OF HIS LIFE, MORTICIA.

MORTICIA IS DARKER THAN GOMEZ AND SHE CANNOT FACE HAVING A DAUGHTER OLD ENOUGH TO MARRY. LYN MCKEWEN IS MORTICIA. SHE MADE HER MAUI DEBUT IN MOS?S WAIT UNTIL DARK. INTERESTING THE DARK THEME EMERGING IN HER MAUI CAREER. HER DAUGHTER?S NAME IS PALOMA, BUT WE ALL CALL HER WEDNESDAY BECAUSE THERE WAS SOME POEM ABOUT WEDNESDAY?S CHILD IS FULL OF WOE. THE AMAZING LIA KRIEG, WHO PLAYED EPONINE IN MAPA?S LES MIS WILL BE PLAYING HER. THEIR OTHER SON AND THE OBJECT OF WEDNESDAY?S CONSIDERABLE WRATH, MUCH TO HIS PLEASURE, IS YOUNG PUGSLEY. HE IS PLAYED BY MIKAH GIOVANNI WHO IS MAKING HIS MOS AND THEATRICAL DEBUT. HE LOVES TO BE TORTURED. FINALLY THERE IS GRANDMA, SHE IS 102 AND DOESN?T LOOK A DAY OVER A HUNDRED. ANN MARIE WILDER, WHO WAS SO GREAT IN MOS?S ON GOLDEN POND IS GRANDMA OH! I ALMOST FORGOT UNCLE FESTER, HE IS THE WEIRD BROTHER OF GOMEZ, WE THINK. DALE BUTTON, WHO HAS BEEN IN EVERYTHING FOREVER AND ALWAYS DOES AN EXCELLENT JOB IS FESTER.

THEN THERE ARE THE ANCESTORS WHO COME OUT ONCE A YEAR FOR THE ADDAMS FAMILY REUNION. THEY ARE A MOTELY GROUP MOST OF THEM HAD THEIR LIVES CUT SHORT FOR ONE REASON OR ANOTHER. THEY ARE A LIVELY BUNCH. THEY ARE ALWAYS SINGING AND DANCING AND CAN ONLY BE SEEN BY US.

ON THIS EVENING OF ALL EVENINGS WEDNESDAY HAS CHOSEN TO HAVE A DINNER PARTY FOR HER BOYFRIEND?S FAMILY. IT WILL BE ONE OF THOSE MEET AND GREET SORT OF AFFAIRS. MY SENSE TELLS ME THIS WILL NOT END WELL.

HER BOYFRIEND?S NAME IS LUCAS HE IS FROM OUT OF TOWN, A VERY RED STATE I AM TOLD, BUT I TRY TO STAY OUT OF POLITICS, HE IS PLAYED BY STEPHEN WEBB WHO WAS LAST SEEN IN ANNIE GET YOUR GUN, IN FACT HIS ENTIRE FAMILY WAS IN IT. HIS DAD, MAL A FORMER DEAD HEAD WHO GOT RELIGION AND TURNED INTO A REPUBLICAN , IS PLAYED BY DAVID NEGAARD AND HIS WIFE ALICE, A REPRESSED, CLOSET HALLMARK CARD POET, IS PLAYED BY MARSI SMITH. THEY ARE AS MIDDLE OF THE ROAD AS THE STATE THE COME FROM, OHIO. I THINK THEY MAY BE IN FOR A BIT OF A SHOCK.

OH YES, THING AND IT ARE IN THE HOUSE AS WELL THEY ARE PLAYED BY LAUREN KENAR AND MICHAELA ALOHI.

DRIVING THIS BUS OR MAYBE A BETTER METAPHOR WOULD BE CAPTAINING THIS SHIP OF FOOLS IS MICHAEL PULLIAM HIS SECOND IN COMMAND ARE STEPHEN HAINES, MUSICAL DIRECTOR AND ERIN KOWALICK, CHOREOGRAPHER. MR PULLIAM HAS DESIGNED THE SET WITH THE HELP OF STEVEN DASCOULIAS AND RICKY JONES, WHO IS ALSO THE STAGE MANAGER. AND HE HAS BROUGHT IN A MAJOR RINGER AS ART DESIGNER. CHRISTINE WARD FROM SF. SHE USED TO WORK FOR GREEN DAY, AND I DON’T MEAN THAT SILLY IRISH HOLIDAY, I MEAN THE AMERICAN IDOT GROUP. SHE HAS BROUGHT IN SOME SPECIAL EFFECTS THAT WILL MAKE YOUR EYES POP. THERE HASN’T BEEN A SHOW LIKE THIS ONE BEFORE AT THE IAO THEATER. VIRGINIA SANDELL IS HANDLING THE PROPS AND THE WORLD’S ONLY ASTRO PHYSICIST/COSTUMER, SARAH LONEY IS THE COSTUMER.

THE SHOW RUNS FROM JULY 10 TO AUG 2. FRIDAY AND SATURDAYS AT 7:30 AND SUNDAYS AT 3 PM TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE AT 242-6969, OR ON LINE A WWW.MAUIONSTAGE.COM ALSO THE BOX OFFICE IS OPEN MON. WED. AND FRI. 11 TO 3PM WHERE YOU CAN MEET THE IMPOSSIBLY HAPPY AND SMILING JUDY HALIP AND ON SHOW DAYS 90 MINUTES PRIOR TO CURTAIN. I WOULDN’T WAIT IF I WERE YOU, I’D GET TICKETS NOW. THIS SHOW WILL SELL OUT!

WELL THAT’S CURTAIN CALL FOR THIS WEEK, I’M LURCH, PAUL JANES-BROWN WILL BE BACK NEXT WEEK WITH A REVIEW OF THE CELESTE BOURSIER MOUGENOT EXHIBIT AND THE HUI MEMBERS SHOW. GOOD BYE.

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J: ALEXANDER ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS PRESENTS A MAJOR PRODUCTION INVOLVING THE ENTIRE SCHOOL AND THEN SOME, ANNUALLY, THIS YEAR, THEY CHOSE TO DO CINDERELLA, PAUL JANES-BROWN TOOK TIME OUT FROM THE MAUI FILM FESTIVAL TO SEE IT AND HAS THIS REVIEW.

PJB: THE ALEXANDER ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS HAS BEEN OFFERING CLASSICAL BALLET TRAINING TO THE MAUI COMMUNITY FOR TWENTY YEARS. THE ACADEMY IS THE DREAM OF THE LATE CYNTHIA MURPHY, WHO WANTED TO PROVIDE TRAINING FOR ANYONE WHO WAS INTERESTED REGARDLESS OF ABILITY TO PAY. IT IS A DONATION BASED PROGRAM. PARTICIPANTS ARE ASKED TO PAY WHAT THEY CAN AND NO ONE IS TURNED AWAY FOR LACK OF ABILITY TO PAY.

PRIOR TO HER DEATH, MS CYNTHIA HAD TO LEAVE MAUI AND DANELLE WATSON, A FACULTY MEMBER, STEPPED UP TO CONTINUE MS CYNTHIAʻS DREAM. SINCE THEN THE ACADEMY HAS BRANCHED OUT TO INCLUDE OTHER DANCE FORMS AND MUSICAL THEATER IN ITS CURRICULUM IN ADDITION TO STRONG CLASSICAL BALLET TRAINING AND CONDITIONING.

THREE PERFORMANCES WERE GIVEN AT SEABURY HALLʻS AʻALIʻIKUHUNOA CREATIVE ARTS CENTER LAST SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. THE PROGRAM OPENED WITH FOUR PIECES CHOREOGRAPHED BY THE ACADEMYʻS FACULTY, AMELIA NELSON, DANELLE WATSON, HALLIE ROSE HUNT AND NICOLE YEZZI. THESE WORKS DEMONSTRATED SOLID CLASSICAL TECHNIQUE COUPLED WITH EXCITING CONTEMPORARY CHOREOGRAPHY. EACH WAS DINSTINCTIVE AND WELL EXECUTED.

THEN THE MAIN COURSE WAS SERVED, CINDERELLA, WITH MUSIC BY SERGEI PROKOVIEV, PETER ILLICH TSCHIACOVSKY AND AMILCAR PONCHIELLI. CHOREOGRAPHED BY MS WATSON, HUNT, NELSON AND YEZZI.

BECAUSE OF AN EMBARRASSMENT OF RICHES, ALEXANDER ACADEMY DOUBLE CAST SOME OF THE PRICIPAL ROLES, HANNA CLEARBOUT AND LAUREL BICKER SHARED CINDERELLA, ASHLEY KROST AND JULIA SALAPARUTA INTERCHANGED THE FAIRY GODMOTHER AND THE LEAD SPRING FAIRY. EACH DANCER BROUGHT HER INDIVIDUAL TALENTS AND STYLE TO EACH CHARACTER.

AFTER WATCHING BOTH WOMEN DANCE THE PART, I FOUND NO PERCEPTABLE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO, EXCEPT MS. BICKER IS BLOND AND MS CLAERBOUT DARK HAIRED. THEY BOTH REALIZED THE CHARACTER. CINDERELLAʻS HUMILITY, GENEROSITY, AMAZEMENT, INNER AND OUTER BEAUTY AND ULTIMATE TRIUMPH ALL CAME THROUGH AND THEY BOTH DANCED BEAUTIFULLY.

I DID NOT SEE MS SALAPARUTA AS THE FAIRY GODMOTHER, BUT IF HER PERFORMANCE AS THE LEAD SPRING FAIRY WS ANY INDICATION, IʻM CERTAIN IT WAS OUTSTANDING.

IN THE ROLE OF THE FAIRYGODMOTHER, 16 YEAR OLD ASHLEY KROST WAS BREATHTAKING. MS KROST, WHO IS BLESSED WITH A PERFECT BALLERINA BODY, LONG, LEAN ARMS, LEGS AND NECK, HIGH ARCHES, STRENGTH WITHOUT BEING MUSCULAR, MOVED EFFORTLESSLY AS IF SHE WERE FLOATING. HER PERFORMANCE WAS A JOY TO BEHOLD AND YOU BELIEVED SHE DIDNʻT NEED THE MAGIC WAND, THE MAGIC WAS IN HER BODY AND DANCING.

ONE OF THE ELEMENTS THAT I LOVE ABOUT DANCE SCHOOL PROGRAMS IS THE OPPORTUNITY TO SEE FUTURE GENERATIONS OF YOUNG DANCERS SHARE THE STAGE WITH OLDER COUNTERPARTS. IT WAS BEYOND ADORABLE TO WATCH CHILDREN PERFORM ON STAGE FOR THE FIRST TIME. SOME WERE IN AWE, SOME WAVED TO FAMILY, SOME FORGOT EVERYTHING THEY WERE TAUGHT, WHILE OTHERS CONCENTRATED AND EXHIBITED LEADERSHIP. FEW ART FORMS DISPLAY INTERGENERATIONAL PERFORMANCE IN THE MANNER AND TO THE EXTENT THAT DANCE DOES.

IN THE ROLE OF THE PRINCE ALEXANDER ACADEMY IS IN THE SAME PREDICAMENT AS SO MANY OTHER DANCE SCHOOLS, NO MEN. SO THEY BROUGHT BACK NATHANIEL HUNT AS A GUEST ARTIST FROM NEW YORK CITY, WHERE HE IS IN HIS FIRST YEAR IN AILEY II, THE SECOND COMPANY AT THE ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATER. THIS COMPANY IS MADE UP OF SOME OF THE TOP YOUNG DANCERS IN THE US AND TOURS ALL OVER THE WORLD PERFORMING AILEY REPERTOIRE.

ALTHOUGH BALLET MAY NOT BE HIS FIRST FORM, MR HUNT ACQUITTED HIMSELF ADMIRABLY DISPLAYING TOP RATE TECHNIQUE AND FORM AND OF COURSE OUTSTANDING PARTNERING.

AS THE HEAD OF THE EVIL TRIO, STEPMOTHER NICOLE YEZZI LOOKED GREAT AND WAS QUITE CONVINCING AS THE OVERWROUGHT, HYPERVIGILANT, MOM TRYING TO MARRY HER UNFORTUNATE DAUGHTERS OFF TO GAIN UPWARD MOBILITY. I LOVED THE MOMENT SHE TRIED TO CONVINCE THE PRINCE THAT IF HE DIDNʻT WANT HER DAUGHTERS, HE MIGHT WANT HER.

AS THE EVIL STEPSISTERS, JEN COX AND ELIZA WRIGHT NEARLY STOLE THE SHOW. THEIR OPEN SIBLING RIVALRY WAR AND UNABASHED SELFISHNESS WAS ABSOLUTELY DELIGHTFUL. ITʻS NOT EASY TO ACT AS IF YOU DONʻT KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING WHEN YOU REALLY DO, BOTH WOMEN PERFORMED THEIR SLAPSTICK BUFFOONERY WITH EXCELLENCE AND ENTHUSIASM. MS COX AND MS WRIGHT WERE PRESENT AND IN THE SCENE 100% OF THE TIME, EVEN WHEN THEY WERE NOT THE FOCUS, THEY REMAINED IN CHARACTER ENGAGED IN WHAT WAS HAPPENING.

ALEXANDER ACADEMY DANCERS EXHIBIT OUTSTANDING TECHNIQUE FROM THEIR TOES TO THE TIPS OF THEIR FINGERS. MOVEMENTS ARE COMPLETELY EXECUTED, EXTENSIONS ARE FINISHED AND FULL, HANDS ARE PERFECT, POSES ARE HELD AND LINES ARE LONG. BESIDES, OUTSTANDING TECHNIQUE, THEIR CONDITONING IS SUPERB, WHICH IS EXHIBITED BY THEIR STRENGTH AND AGILITY.

ALEXANDER ACADEMY PERFORMS A PIECE FROM THE CLASSICAL BALLET REPERTOIRE ANNUALLY. KEEP YOUR EYES AND EARS OPEN FOR THEIR NEXT PERFORMANCE.

THATʻS CURTAIN CALL FOR THIS WEEK, IʻM PAUL JANES-BROWN, A HUI HOU.

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LEDE IN – THE 16th ANNUAL MAUI FILM FESTIVAL KICKS OFF ON WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, TO SUNDAY, JUNE 7TH . PAUL JANES-BROWN HAS A PREVIEW OF WHAT TO EXPECT FOR THIS EDITION OF CURTAIN CALL.

BEFORE I BEGIN, I HAVE TO MAKE A CORRECTION. IN MY KING KEKAULIKE HS DRAMA CLUB REVIEW I MISIDENTIFIED ONE OF THE SAD GIRLS, IT WAS PUAKENIKENI KEPLER WHO SHOULD HAVE RECEIVED THE CREDIT FOR HER GREAT WORK. SORRY.

BARRY AND STELLA RIVERS HAVE GIVEN US FIVE DAYS, OF FILMS, FUN AND FOOD. ALTOGETHER TWENTY FILMS WILL BE SCREENED, 8 OF WHICH WILL BE PREMIERING HERE, FIVE OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUALS WILL BE HONORED, FOUR FOR THEIR IN FRONT OF THE CAMERA WORK AND ONE FOR HIS BEHIND THE CAMERA WORK AND THREE GIGANTIC PUBLIC PARTIES AND WHO KNOWS HOW MANY PRIVATE ONES WILL HAPPEN.

FILMS WILL BE SCREENED AT THE CELESTIAL CINEMA, THE WORLD’S MOST BEAUTIFUL PLACE TO SEE A FILM NEAR GANNON’S AT THE WAILEA GOLF CLUB, AT THE MAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER IN BOTH THE CASTLE THEATER AND THE MCCOY STUDIO THEATER AND ON SATURDAY NIGHT THE TOES IN THE SAND EXPERIENCE ON THE BEACH BETWEEN THE FOUR SEASONS AND THE GRAND WAILEA WILL SCREEN THE 1924 SILENT FILM OF J.M. BARRIEʻS PETER PAN FOR FREE.

THE 8 FILMS MAKING THEIR PREMIERE AT THIS FESTIVAL INCLUDE THE PROPHET, AN ANIMATED FILM BASED ON THE WILDLY POPULAR KAHLIL GIBRAN BOOK, ONE GOOD YEAR IS A LOOK AT FAMILY POT FARMING HUMBOLDT STYLE, VERY SEMI SERIOUS ABOUT THE CARTOONS IN THE NEW YORKER, 10000 KM A LONG DISTANCE LOVE STORY, LOVE IS NOW, A LOVE STORY ROAD PICTURE THAT TAKES PLACE IN AUSTRALIA, ALSO LIVE FROM NEW YORK, JACKIE & RYAN, AND TENURED, WHICH I HAVE MORE TO SAY ABOUT LATER IN THIS REPORT.

THE FESTIVAL STARTS ON WED NIGHT AT 5 PM WITH THE TASTE OF SUMMER AT THE GRAND WAILEA FROM 5 TO 7 PM. THEN BARRY WILL BESTOW UPON SCOTT EASTWOOD AND THERESA PALMER THE RISING STAR AWARD, WHICH IS GIVEN TO A YOUNG FILM ARTIST FOR DARING TO DREAM BIG DREAMS AND THEN DELIVERING BRILLIANT PERFORMANCES WHEN OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS. THE LAST PERSON TO RECEIVE THIS AWARD WAS BRIE LARSON WHO STARRED IN DESTIN DANIEL CRETTON’S FESTIVAL FAVORITE SHORT TERM 12. TWO TERIFFIC FILMS WILL BE SCREENED THAT NIGHT AT THE CELESTIAL CINEMA. LIVE FROM NEW YORK IS THE PREMIERE OF THE STORY OF SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, A 40 YEAR TIME CAPSULE TOLD IN 90 MINUTES BY THE PEOPLE WHO MADE IT HAPPEN. THEN A FILM THAT LOOKS LIKE IT COULD BE AN ACADEMY AWARD CONTENDER FOR JOHN CUSACK WHO PLAYS BEACH BOY BRAIN BRIAN WILSON WITH PAUL GIAMATTI AND IN LOVE & MERCY. HERE’S A CLIP.

THE MUSIC, THE STORY, THE PORTRAYALS, IT HAS IT ALL.

THURSDAY COLLIN FARREL GET’S THE NAVIGATOR AWARD, WHICH IS GIVEN FOR CREATIVELY CARVING A PATH THROUGH THE TURBULENT WATERS OF THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY WHILE MAINTAINING HIS CORNERSTONE COMMITMENT TO EXCELLENCE.

BARRY RIVERS SAID, “WHILE MORE THAN PROUD TO ANNOUNCE EACH YEAR’S MAUI FILM FESTIVAL HONOREES, EVERY FEW YEARS THERE’S SOMEONE WHOSE VISION AND PASSION UNIQUELY ALIGN WITH THE MAUI FILM FESTIVAL’S PASSIONATE COMMITMENT TO ACTIVIST AND ORIGINAL CINEMA WITH A BEDROCK COMMITMENT TO COMPASSIONATE STORYTELLING AND LIFTING BOTH THE SPIRIT AND ASPIRATIONS OF HUMANKIND.”

THAT PERSON IS OSCAR WINNING DIRECTOR LOUIE PSIHOYOS ONE OF THE WORLD’S GREAT STILL PHOTOGRAPHERS, WHO WILL GET THE LIGHTS, CAMERA, PASSION AWARD HONORING A DIRECTOR FOR THEIR HEARTFELT PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL COMMITMENT TO MAKE MOVIES THAT BOTH MATTER AND CELEBRATE THE TRIUMPH OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT OVER SEEMINGLY INSURMOUNTABLE CHALLENGES. HIS FILM RACING EXTINCTION WILL BE SCREENED THAT NIGHT. THIS FILM IS AN UNDERCOVER EXPOSE OF THE INDUSTRIES, WHICH PROFIT BY SUPPORTING THE EXTINCTION OF ENDANGERED SPECIES. IT IS LIKE A CROSS BETWEEN A THRILLER AND A DOCUMENTARY. THIS FILM, ACCORDING TO THE PUBLICITY, WILL CHANGE THE WAY WE SEE THE WORLD. WE’LL SEE.

FRIDAY, START YOUR EVENING AT THE FOUR SEASONS WHERE YOU CAN BATHE IN THE TASTE OF CHOCOLATE! THEN HELE DOWN THE STREET AND UP THE HILL TO THE CELESTIAL CINEMA TO CATCH BEN KINGSLEY AS A SIKH CAB DRIVER AND THE WONDERFUL PATRICIA CLARKSON AS A RECENTLY JILTED MANHATTAN WIFE/AUTHOR AND HOW THEY RESOLVE THEIR RELATIONSHIP DIFFICULTIES IN LEARNING TO DRIVE. THEN A FESTIVAL SLEEPER, STARS DOV TIEFENBACH IN A LOVE COM THAT IN A NUTSHELL ENDEARLINGLY TELLS THE STORY OF BOY MEETS, LOSES AND FINDS FINDS THE LOVE OF HIS LIFE RIGHT UNDER HIS NOSE. TIEFENBACH SEEMS TO BE CHANNELING WOODY ALLEN IN THIS FILM.

WHAT DO YOU THINK? I DEFINITELY THINK ITʻS WORTH A LOOK SEE.

ON SATURDAY THERE WILL BE AN INTIMATE CONVERSATION WITH LOUIE PSIHOYOS AT THE WAILEA MARRIOT AT 10:30. THIS WILL BE WHERE YOU CAN ASK HIM ALL THE QUESTIONS YOU WILL HAVE AFTER SEEING HIS AMAZING FILM RACING EXTINCTION. THEN THERE WILL BE THREE OTHER ONE HOUR LONG PANELS FROM 11:30 TO 1:30. THE FILMAKERS IN THESE PANELS HAD NOT BEEN IDENTIFIED BY THE TIME WE SHOT THIS PREVIEW.

THEN MAKE SURE YOU GET TICKETS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE FOR ONE OF MAUI’S MOST EXCITING FOOD EXPERIENCES, THE ALWAYS SOLD OUT TASTE OF WAILEA FEATURING A DOZEN WAILEA CHEF’S AND THEIR BEST CREATIONS WITH COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF ADULT BEVERAGES. THIS TAKES PLACE ON THE GOLF COURSE ABOVE THE CELESTIAL CINEMA. AFTER THOROUGHLY SATIATING YOURSELF YOU CAN ACTUALLY WALK DOWN THE HILL OR TAKE THE SHUTTLE TO THE CELESTIAL CINEMA WHERE SIR IAN MCKELLAN STARS AS THE GREATEST DETECTIVE OF ALL TIME SHERLOCK HOLMES IN MR. HOLMES WITH THE BRILLIANT LAURA LINNEY. HERE’S A TASTE OF THIS FILM THAT LOOKS THOROUGHLY BEGUILING.

I CANNOT WAIT TO SEE THIS.

AFTER THAT OSCAR WINNER KATE WINSLET PORTRAYS A LANDSCAPE DESIGNER WHO ENCHANTS LOUIE THE XIV AND GETS TO DO THE GARDENS AT VERSAILLE AGAINST ALL ODDS IN A LITTLE CHAOS. BESIDES BEING A WOMAN TRIUMPH STORY IN A PERIOD WHERE WOMAN WERE NOT EXACTLY LIBERATED, IT’S ALSO A LOVE STORY.

THE CLOSE OF THE FESTIVAL ON SUNDAY WILL HONOR LAURA DERN WITH THE RAINMAKER AWARD GIVEN TO A FILM ARTIST FOR HAVING THE MYSTERIOUSLY MAGICAL ABILITY TO PROFOUNDLY AND POSITIVELY IMPACT THE CREATIVE DYNAMICS OF EVERY PROJECT THEY ARE INVOLVED IN BOTH ON THE SET AND ON THE SCREEN.

BARRY RIVERS SAID, “FROM THE FIRST TIME I EXPERIENCED A LAURA DERN PERFORMANCE IN THE FILM ‘SMOOTH TALK’ AT THE 1985 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL, THROUGH THE 40­ PLUS FILMS THAT HAVE FOLLOWED, LAURA’S GRACE, HUMANITY AND ON­ SCREEN LUMINOSITY HAVE ENTHRALLED ME, ENLIGHTENED ME AND FOUND ME COMING BACK FOR MORE OF HER SPECIAL MAGIC”.

THEN THE CELESTIAL CINEMA WILL CLOSE WITH A BIO PIC THE WAVE I RIDE ABOUT MAUI BIG WAVE SURFER PAIGE ALMS AND ANOTHER SCREENING OF PLANETARY.

HOWEVER, AT THE MAUI ARTS AND CULTURAL CENTER, THEREʻS A DOUBLE PREMIERE AT 7:30 PM AT THE MCCOY STUDIO THEATER JACKIE & RYAN WITH KATHERINE HEIGL AND BEN BARNES, A LOVE STORY ABOUT TWO DOWN ON THEIR LUCK MUSICIANS WITH GREAT COUNTRY MUSIC SOUND TRACK WILL BE SHOWN. GUY LODGE OF VARIETY SAID, “MELLOW, DIGESTIBLY SWEET AND EMBELLISHED WITH LOVELY FOLK TUNES, THIS MODEST BIT OF AMERICANA REVEALS PLEASING NEW SIDES OF BOTH LEADS, AND MERITS A CAREFULLY TARGETED RELEASE FROM A NURTURING DISTRIBUTOR.”

AND AT 7;30 IN THE CASTLE THEATER ISTENURED NOTHING LASTS FOREVER STARRING GIL ZABARSKY AND KATE FLANNERY ITʻS ABOUT A DEPRESSED FIFTH GRADE TEACHER WHO ACTS INAPPROPRIATELY WITH HIS STUDENTS AND FRUSTRATES THE PRINCIPAL WHO WANTS TO FIRE HIM BUT CANNOT BECAUSE HE HAS TENURE.

THERE ARE LOTS OF OTHER GREAT FILMS, BUT I HAVE YET TO MASTER THAT PESKY THING ABOUT BEING HERE AND THERE SIMULTANEOUSLY. THESE ARE MY MUST SEE LISTS. IF YOU WANT TO FIND OUT HOW YOU CAN GET TICKETS TO THE EVENTS, FIND MORE FILMS AND TRAILERS, GO TO THEIR GREAT WEBSITE MAUIFILMFESTIVAL.COM . IʻLL SEE YOU AT THE MOVIES!

THAT’S CURTAIN CALL FOR THIS WEEK, I’M PAUL JANES-BROWN A HUI HOU. NEXT WEEK I’LL HAVE A REVIEW OF SEABURY’S ANNUAL ONE ACT FESTIVAL SIDE SHOWS.

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J: SEABURY HALL PERFORMING ARTS CONCLUDED THEIR 2014-15 SEASON WITH THEIR ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF ONE ACTS, SIDE SHOWS. PAUL JANES-BROWN HAS THIS REVIEW FOR CURTAIN CALL.

PJB: SIDE SHOWS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE NIGHTS AT THE THEATER. ONE ACTS, WHICH CANNOT BE LONGER THAN 10 MINUTES TEST THE METTLE OF A PLAYWRIGHT. TO CREATE A FULL PLAY, NOT A SCENE IN THAT TIME IS QUITE AN ACHEIVEMENT AND SEABURY HALL PERFORMING ARTS SHOWCASED THE BEST RICHARD DRESSER, JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY, MICHAEL KUGLER, AND JACK NEARY TO MENTION A FEW. ALSO 2011 VALEDICTORIAN MILES KELSEY AND 2015 VALEDICTORIAN ZEB MEHRING HAD PLAYS IN THIS FESTIVAL.

THE GREAT THING ABOUT THE FESTIVAL, BESIDES THE QUALITY OF THE WORK, IS PROJECTS COME FROM THE STUDENTS THEMSELVES, THEY ARE THE PRODUCERS, DIRECTORS, PLAYWRIGHTS, ACTORS, TECH CREW ETC. AND THE WORK IS DONE BY SOME WHO HAVE NEVER BEEN IN A PLAY BEFORE AND WELL-KNOWN AND HIGHLY EXPERIENCED ACTORS.

ONE OF THE STARS OF THE SHOW WAS ELIZA WRIGHT WHO WAS IN THREE PLAYS AND DIRECTED ANOTHER. IN FACT THE PLAY SHE DIRECTED, THE LEDGE BY WILLIAM BORDEN, SHE WASN’T SUPPOSED TO ACT IN, NEITHER WAS KALAN BIRNIE WHO PLAYED TOM. APPARENTLY, THE STUDENTS SHE CHOSE DECIDED THEY DIDN’T WANT TO DO IT.

IN ONE OF THOSE, “THE SHOW MUST GO ON MOMENTS,” THEY CONVINCED MS SEFTON NOT TO CANCEL THE SHOW AND THEY DID IT. MS SEFTON EXPLAINED THE CIRCUMSTANCES TO THE AUDIENCE SO THEY WOULD UNDERSTAND WHY THE ACTORS MIGHT HAVE TO REFER TO NOTES WITH LINES. MASTER BIRNIE WAS TOTALLY OFF BOOK AND MS WRIGHT ONLY REFERRED TO HER PAPER ONCE.

MS. WRIGHT WENT ON TO STAR IN ZEB MEHRING’S PLAY 1237 AND MILES KELSEY’S GRAMMAR POLICE.

MR MEHRING, WHO WILL BE OFF TO YALE IN THE FALL, WROTE A PLAY THAT WAS AT ONCE INCOMPREHENSIBLE AND UNFORGETTABLE. MS WRIGHT DID GREAT WORK WITH A CHARACTER WHO WAS AT TIMES INSANE, AT OTHER TIMES MAYBE A DOCTOR IN THE HOSPITAL. IT WAS HARD TO TELL BECAUSE THE PATIENTS AND THE DOCTORS WORE LAB COATS. THEN SHE WAS INTERVIEWING FOR THE JOB OF A LIFETIME AND IN THE BEGINNING ON A SUBWAY AT 42ND STREET IN NEW YORK CITY.

THE PLAY BEGAN WITH MS WRIGHT HAVING A CONVERSATION WITH A MAN IN A VERY NICE CHESTERFIELD COAT ON THE SUBWAY SHE SEEMS NOT TO KNOW HIM AND THEN TO HAVE KNOWN HIM. THE NEXT TIME WE MEET HIM, HE IS HER DOCTOR IN AN ASYLUM. LOGAN KING PLAYED THE DOCTOR. BAILEY DALZELL WAS THE RECEPTIONIST WHO EXPIRED IN THE MIDDLE OF A SCENE. MS. WRIGHT COUNTS THE PATIENTS IN THE HOSPITAL. AT ONE POINT, SHE SAYS EVEN THOUGH THERE ARE 100 MORE PATIENTS IT STILL COMES OUT TO 1237. HENCE THE TITLE OF THE PLAY.

DIRECTOR TODD VAN AMBERG ADDED SOME MULTI MEDIIA TOUCHES THAT ENHANCED THE MYSTERY OF THE WORK, BUT DIDN’T SERVE TO CLEAR IT UP. IT WAS THE ONLY DRAMA IN THE PROGRAM EVERYTHING ELSE WAS COMEDY.

MS WRIGHT ALSO STARRED IN MR. KELSEY’S WONDERFUL SPOOF ON GRAMMAR, THE GRAMMAR POLICE, IN IT MS WRIGHT IS SEEN WRITING AN EMAIL WITH SEVERAL GRAMMATICAL ERRORS. A KNOCK ON THE DOOR AND SHE IS GREETED BY OFFICER GRAHAM PLAYED BY THE DIRECTOR OF THIS PLAY AND HEAD OF THE UPPER SCHOOL, SCOTT WINHAM AND OFFICER POLLY, PLAYED BY VICTORIA WINHAM MR. WINHAM’S DAUGHTER. THEY INFORM MS WRIGHT THAT SHE HAS COMMITTED SEVERAL GRAMMATICAL CRIMES AND SHE WILL HAVE TO COME WITH THEM. IN THE COURSE OF THE CONVERSATION, MS WRIGHT PROVES THAT HER SPEECH IS NOT ANY MORE GRAMMATICALLY CORRECT THAN HER WRITING AND IS REGULARLY CORRECTED BY THE GRAMMAR COPS. IT IS A THOROUGHLY ENGAGING IDEA AND PLAYS BEAUTIFULLY WITH LOTS OF LAUGHS.

THE OPENING WORK OF THE EVENING WAS RICHARD DRESSER’S BED & BREAKFAST, A COMEDY ABOUT UGLY AMERICANS IN THE UK DIRECTED WITH ASSURANCE AND SKILL BY SALLY SEFTON. LILY PICKERING WAS HILARIOUS AS SARAH THE OVER THE TOP UGLY AMERICAN FROM SOMEWHERE DOWN SOUTH WHO IS SURE HER HUSBAND CHUCK, (NOA HERRERA) IS TRYING TO KILL HER BECAUSE HE REFUSES TO DRIVE ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE ROAD. ALSO AT THE B&B IS ALICE AN UGLIER AMERICAN WHO IS LOUD AND ABUSIVE TO THE PROPRIETESS OF THE B&B EVELYN, PLAYED BY CAMILLE ERDMANN. WE FIND OUT THAT ALICE’S HUSBAND, CLAUDE (ALEX BALLARD) HAS A RARE FORGETFUL DISORDER AND IN A GROUND HOG DAY LIKE SYNDROME SHE HAS BEEN STUCK IN THIS PLACE FOR YEARS VISITING STONEHENGE EVERYDAY. MS ERDMANN’S PLUCKY COCKNEY WAITRESS IS A NICE FOIL TO THE CRASSNESS OF THE THREE AMERICANS, CLAUDE SEEMS ALMOST FRENCH.

MICHAEL KUGLER CONTRIBUTED TWO PLAYS TO THE EVENING THE HEREAFTER DIRECTED BY THE FABULOUS MARSHA KELLEY WAS ABOUT THE AFTERLIFE, WHICH SEEMS TO BE ON A BEACH. MR KUGLER WANTS HIS ACTORS TO PLAY THEMSELVES, BECAUSE HE DOESN’T GIVE THEM NAMES. WE SEE NANEA HAYNES IN A BEACH CHAIR WITH SUNGLASSES ON SIPPING A DRINK. A FULLY CLOTHED MAN LIES TO HER LEFT SPREAD EAGLE. SLOWLY MICHAEL CHASEN COMES TO, TO LEARN THE LAST THING HE REMEMBERED WAS INDEED THE LAST THING HE WOULD EVER REMEMBER BECAUSE HE IS NO LONGER AMONG THE LIVING. MS HAYNES HAS FUN TAUNTING HIM AND ASKING HIM WHAT HE THOUGHT WOULD HAPPEN DRIVING OFF THE ROAD AT 60 MPH?

THE OTHER KUGLER PLAY WAS THE HOSTAGE DIRECTED BY BARRY WURST III AND FEATURING SHELBY FERRIER AND TEDDY WILSON ABOUT TWO INEPT KIDNAPPERS WHO REALIZE THAT THEIR HOSTAGE IS SO MEAN HIS FAMILY IS DELIGHTED HE HAS BEEN TAKEN AWAY.

THE EMPLOYMENT AGENCY BY ROBERT MAURO, DIRECTED BY LOGAN KING FEATURED KALAN BIRNIE AS THE AGENT WHO WANTED TO BE A MAJOR LEAGUE BALL PLAYER, BUT DIDN’T MAKE IT AND REALIZES HE CAN GET REVENGE WHEN A MIME PLAYED PERFECTLY BY HEATHER KELSEY, SISTER OF THE GRAMMAR POLICE PLAYWRIGHT COMES IN TO INTERVIEW FOR A JOB. THEIR INTERVIEW WAS HILARIOUS AND MS KELSEY WAS A TERRIFIC MIME. SHE LOOKED AND ACTED RIGHT OUT OF MARCEL MARCEAU.

ZOE HARRELSON DIRECTED KAIMANA NEAL AS THE BOSS AND HEATHER MOCK AS FLORA IN CONRAD BISHOP AND ELIZABETH FULLER’S PLAY ABOUT A PHONE MESSAGING AGENCY THAT DELIVERS UNPLEASANT NEWS. HOWEVER FLORA HAS TOO MUCH HEART FOR THE JOB AND RUNS UP HIGH COSTS FOR THE COMPANY BECAUSE SHE CANNOT JUST DELIVER THE MESSAGE SHE HAS TO CONSOLE THE RECIPIENT. THIS LEADS TO MR. NEAL’S BOSS HAVING SERIOUS CONSTERNATION AND NEEDING TO FIRE FLORA.

THE RED COAT IS A MARVELOUS LOVE STORY BY JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY ALSO DIRECTED BY MS SEFTON. IT FEATURES ZANDER MEDRANO AND SEBRINA FUTCH WHO WERE SO GOOD IN LOST IN YONKERS. THIS TIME MASTER MEDRANO PLAYS THE BOY WHO PLEDGES HIS LOVE FOR THE GIRL MS FUTCH. IT IS A HEARTWARMING PLAY PERFORMED BY TWO UP AND COMING YOUNG ACTORS WHO I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING NEXT YEAR.

THE EVENING CLOSED WITH TWO OF SEABURY’S MOST ACCOMPLISHED ACTORS ZOE HARRELSON AND MIKELA WESSON PERFORMING JACK NEARY’S PLAY SHE’S FABULOUS, ABOUT TWO ACTORS NEITHER OF WHOM GOT THE PART AND ARE SEEING THE PLAY. WHAT STARTS OUT AS POLITE OBSERVATIONS SOON BECOMES CATTY AND DEGENERATES INTO OPEN HOSTILITY. BOTH MS WESSON AND HARRELSON WERE COMPLETELY ON THEIR GAME AND SABRINA FUTCH’S DIRECTION SANG. AND NO WE COULDN’T SEE THE WORK.

THAT’S CURTAIN CALL FOR THIS WEEK I’M PAUL JANES-BROWN, A HUI HOU.

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J: WELCOME BACK TO MAUI TV NEWS. THE MAUI ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS HAD THEIR ANNUAL SPRING EXTRAVAGANZA LAST WEEK AT THE MAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER’S CASTLE THEATER. PAUL JANES BROWN SAW THEIR BEST IN THE MOVES CONCERT ON SATURDAY NIGHT AND HAS THIS REVIEW FOR CURTAIN CALL.

PJB: IN THE INTEREST OF FULL DISCLOSURE, I AM THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF ADAPTATIONS DANCE THEATER.

BILLED AS AN EVENING FEATURING MAPA’S BEST DANCERS AND A SPECIAL GUEST APPEARANCE BY AMPERSAND PROFESSIONAL DANCE COMPANY, MOVES WAS A REFRESHING PROGRAM WHICH DIDN’T HAVE THE ADORABLE BABIES AND CHILDREN MAKING THEIR THEATRICAL DEBUT. THAT HAPPENED IN THE AFTERNOON. THE NIGHT WAS ALL ABOUT HIGH ENERGY DANCE WITH A HIP HOP AND RYTHYM AND BLUES BEAT.

LATELY, MAPA’S DANCE PROGRAM HAS BEEN SPECIALIZING IN TRANSFORMING POPULAR DANCE TUNES THROUGH SLICK CHOREOGRAPHY BY THE YOUNG WOMEN OF AMPERSAND DANCE COMPANY, JENNA KAMIKAWA, KATIE TALBOT AND ANGELYNN BAIR.
THE CASTLE THEATER SOUNDED LIKE A DISCO WITH POUNDING HIP HOP BEATS IN NUMBER AFTER NUMBER. EVEN THE ONES THAT STARTED OFF SLOWLY SOON ERUPTED INTO POUNDING 1, 2 AND THE YOUNG DANCERS, MANY OF WHOM HAVE BEEN WITH MAPA SINCE THEY WERE TODDLERS, DISPLAYED THE TECHNIQUES THEY HAVE LEARNED OVER THOSE MANY YEARS AND WERE CLEARLY HAVING A GREAT TIME.

THE OPENING NUMBER OF THE NIGHT CHOREOGRAPHED BY MS. BAIR WAS PAPAOUTAI. MS BAIR CHOSE TO INTERPRET THE CHOREOGRAPHY BASED ON THE BEAT AND POP NATURE OF THIS MUSIC. THE SONG IS IN FRENCH BY THE BELGIAN/RWANDAN PAUL VAN HAVER BETTER KNOWN AS STROMAE. IT IS ABOUT A BOY WHOSE FATHER IS NOT IN HIS LIFE. HE CALLS OUT “WHERE ARE YOU PAPA’” THIS WAS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR DANCE TO BRIDGE THE GAP BETWEEN LANGUAGE AND MOVEMENT. HOWEVER, THE CHOREOGRAPHY, WHICH WAS CHALLENGING AND WELL EXECUTED, DID NOT DO THIS.

THE BEST WORK OF THE NIGHT CAME FROM TWO LONG TIME MAUI CHOREOGRAPHERS AND MAPA STALWARTS, KATHLEEN MCKEON AND CAMILLE ROMERO.

MS MCKEON PRESENTED A LOVELY CLASSICAL BALLET DONE TO VIVALDI SPRING 1 AND 2 REIMAGINED BY MAX RICHTER. THE PIECE WAS DONE ON DEMI POINTE AND WAS THE ONLY BALLET IN THE PROGRAM. MS MCKEON DEFTLY BLENDED CLASSICAL BALLET WITH MODERN TECHNIQUES TO CREATE A MEMORABLE AND BEAUTIFUL PIECE.

MS ROMERO WORKING WITH THE JUNIOR PERFORMANCE GROUP WENT BROADWAY WITH JELLICAL CATS DONE TO THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK. IT WAS FULL ON THEATER DANCE AS ONLY MS ROMERO CAN CREATE. THIS GROUP WAS AMONG THE MOST ACCOMPLISHED.

MAPA NOW HAS THREE BOYS WORKING WITH THEM. THIS IS SOMETHING TO CELEBRATE GABRIEL ELFMAN-HANSON WHO CONTINUES TO GROW INTO A TRULY FINE DANCER HAS BEEN JOINED BY TWO OTHERS NATHAN BURKE AND NOAH MAGBUAL. I HOPE OTHER YOUNG MEN WILL RECOGNIZE DANCERS ARE THE GREATEST ATHLETES AND GET INVOLVED WITH MAPA’S DANCE PROGRAM. WOULDN’T IT BE GREAT TO SEE AN ALL MALE ENSEMBLE OR SOME REAL PARTNERING’

AMPERSAND, MAPA’S PROFESSIONAL COMPANY, WHICH CONSISTS OF THE FOREMENTIONED THREE CHOREOGRAPHERS ALONG WITH KRISTIN ERTEL AND ALANAH PASQUA, HAD A NUMBER IN EACH ACT.

IN THE FIRST ACT THEY PRESENTED A COLLABORATIVELY CHOREOGRAPHED WORK CHAMBERMAID SWING BY PAROV STELAR. IF THE PIECE SOUNDED FAMILIAR IT MAY BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN HEARD IN 100’S OF FILMS AND COMMERCIALS. MOST NOTABLY AN AD FOR BACCARDI RUM. THE WORK FEATURED TWO SETS OF COUPLES PARTNER DANCING AND A SOLOIST IN THE CENTER.

THEIR SECOND PIECE WAS AN EXCERPT FROM EQUIPOISE CHOREOGRAPHED BY MS KAMIKAWA AND DONE TO DEADMAU5’s EVERYTHING BEFORE. THIS DANCE KEPT UP THE HOUSE, TECHNO, HIP HOP THEME OF THE EVENING.

THE OTHER COLLABORATIVELY CHOREOGRAPHED WORK WAS DONE THE LANA DEL RAY COVER OF ONCE UPON A DREAM FROM THE 1959 DISNEY MOVIE, CINDERELLA, WHICH IRONICALLY WAS USED IN 2014 MOVIE MALEFICENT. THIS WORK HAD A HAUNTING QUALITY TO IT AND THE SEVEN DANCERS SEEMED TO BE ENJOYING THEMSELVES.

THAT’S CURTAIN CALL FOR THIS WEEK, I’M PAUL JANES-BROWN, A HUI HOU. NEXT WEEK I’LL HAVE A REVIEW OF GARY KUBOTA’S PLAY THE LEGEND KO’OLAU AT THE CELEBRATION OF THE ARTS AT THE RITZ CARLTON IN KAPALUA. STAY TUNED FOR COMING ATTRACTIONS ON MAUI TV NEWS RIGHT AFTER THESE MESSAGES.

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THE QUEEN IS COMING…THE QUEEN OF FUNK HERSELF, CHAKA KAHN, IS COMING TO MAUI. TELL ME SOMETHING GOOD, I’M EVERY WOMAN, I FEEL FOR YOU…SHE’LL SING THEM ALL TONIGHT, FRIDAY, MAY 8TH IN THE CASTLE THEATER OF THE MAUI ARTS AND CULTURAL CENTER. TICKET PRICES RANGE FROM 35 TO 125 DOLLARS FOR ONE SHOW AT 7-30 TONIGHT – FRIDAY, MAY 8TH AT THE MACC.

THEN GO HOME AND REST UP BECAUSE TOMORROW MORNING, SATURDAY MAY 9TH IT’S THE 37TH ANNUAL VISITOR INDUSTRY CHARITY WALK. LAST YEAR THEY CAME WITHIN INCHES OF RAISING A MILLION DOLLARS. THE WALK STARTS AT 7 A.M. AND THE FOOD AND ENTERTAINMENT – AS ALWAYS – WILL BE INCREDIBLE! THIS YEAR’S WALK ALREADY GOT OFF ON THE RIGHT FOOT. WALKERS ON LANA';I AND MOLOKA’I HELD THEIR EVENTS LAST SATURDAY, MAY 2ND…AND RAISED NEARLY 39,000 DOLLARS!

UPCOUNTRY THIS WEEKEND IS THE ALMOST LEGENDARY SEABURY HALL CRAFT FAIR. THIS IS A JURIED CRAFT FAIR – SO YOU KNOW THE WORK WILL BE EXQUISITE. MORE THAN A HUNDRED LOCAL ARTISANS WILL BE SHOWING OFF THEIR CREATIONS. THERE’S LIVE MUSIC, ONO FOOD, SILEN AUCTIONS, RUMMAGE AND PLANT SALES, ACTIVITIES FOR KEIKI AND LOTS MORE. ADMISSION IS JUST 5 DOLLARS FOR ADULTS. CHILDREN 12 AND UNDER GET IN FREE. SEABURY HALL CRAFT FAIR FROM 9 TO 4 THIS SATURDAY, MAY NINTH AT 480 OLINDA ROAD IN THE MYTHICAL TOWN OF OLINDA.

THE KAHO’OLAWE ISLAND RESERVE COMMISSION IS PLANNING A VERY COOL EVENT. THIS SATURDAY NIGHT, MAY NINTH THEY WILL HOLD THEIR FIRST-EVER MAHINA’AI NIGHT FROM 6 UNTIL 8 P.M. AT THE KIHEI BOAT RAMP. YOU MIGHT REMEMBER IT WAS IN 2002 THAT THE KIRC WAS GRANTED 8 ACRES NEXT TO THE BOAT RAMP…AND THAT SITE WILL SOMEDAY BE THE LOCATION OF THE KAHO’OLAWE LEARNING CENTER. NOW THAT’S WHERE THEY PARK THEIR BOAT. THERE WILL BE GUIDED WALKS ON KIRC’S NEW WALKING TRAIL…THE UNVEILING OF A 40-FOOT MURAL CREATED BY STUDENTS FROM KIHEI CHARTER SCHOOL, MUSIC FROM THE UH-MC INSTITUTE OF HAWAIIAN MUSIC…FOOD VENDORS AND A CHANCE TO TALK STORY WIH FOLKS WHO ARE DEEPLY PASSIONATE ABOUT THE HISTORY AND RESTORATION OF KAHO’OLAWE. THE KIRC MAHINA’AI NIGHT, 6-8 P.M., THIS SATURDAY, MAY 9TH. IT’S FAMILY FRIENDLY AND IT’S ALL FREE.

THEN GO HOME, CLEAN UP AND HEAD BACK TO THE MACC. FOR TWO SHOWS…ONE SATURDAY NIGHT, MAY NINTH AT 7-30 AND ONE SUNDAY, MAY 10TH AT 3 P.M., MAUI CHORAL ARTS PRESENTS “A NIGHT AT THE OPERA.” UNDER THE DIRECTION OF GARY SHIN LEVITT, THE SHOW FEATURES THE PIONO STYLINGS OF LOTUS DANCER AND THE VOCAL TALENTS OF THE LIKES OF BOB WILLS, JERRY EITING AND LISA PAULSON. TICKETS ARE 30 DOLLARS FOR ADULTS, AND 15 DOLLARS FOR 18 AND UNDER…OR STUDENTS WITH I.D. A NIGHT AT THE OPERA, IN THE MCCOY STUDIO THEATER OF THE MACC NEXT SATURDAY AND SUNDFA.

AND SPEAKING OF SUNDAY – DO NOT FORGET THAT SUNDAY, MAY TENTH IS MOTHER’S DAY. AND ONE INCREDIBLE ANNUAL REMINDER IS THE MOTHER’S DAY FEAST AT KA’ANAPALI BEACH HOTEL. THIS YEAR THEY’RE CELEBRATING MOM WITH THE KU’U MAMA ALOHA BRUNCH. FEAST ON A LAVISH ALL YOU CAN EAT BUFFET FEATURING CRAB LEGS, OYSTERS, PORK LAU LAU, HOSE-MADE POI, SAUTEED SNAPPER AND LITERALLY – TONS MORE. ENTERTAINMENT WILL ACCOMPANY YOUR BEAUTIFUL BRUNCH WITH YOUR BEAUTIFUL MOM. ALAKAI PALEKA, KPOA’S MORNING GODDESS WILL EMCEE THE DAY AND THERE WILL BE SPECIAL PERFORMANCES BY NAPUA GRIEG AND HER HALAU NA LEI KAUMAKA O UKA, AS WELL AS KAMAKA KUKONA WITH HALAU O KA HANU LEHUA. BRUNCH AT KBH IS A TRADITION YOU’LL WANT TO START FOR YOUR FAMILY…AND CHANCES ARE YOU ALREADY HAVE. BRUNCH IS 55-95 FOR ADYULTS. KEIKI 6 TO 12 EAT FOR JUST 26 DOLLARS AND KEIKI 5 AND UNDER EAT FREE – ONE FREE CHILD FOR EACH PAID ADULT.

ANOTHER WAY TO CELEBRATE MOM WILL FILL THE AIR AT BALDWIN HIGH SCHOOL THIS SUNDAY. IT’S THE 10TH ANNUAL SPRING CONCERT OF THE MAUI YOUTH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA. THIS FREE FAMILY EVENT STARTS AT 3 THIS SUNDAY AFTERNOON IN THE BALDWIN AUDITORIUM AND WILL FEATURE – AMONG OTHER DIFFICULT THINGS TO PRONOUNCE: EINE KLEINE NACHTMUSIK AND MARCHE MILITAIRE. THE ORCHESTRA IS COMPOSED OF 30 STUDENT MUSICIANS REPRESENTING NINE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, TWO PRIVATE SCHOOLS AND TWO HOMESCHOOL FAMILIES.

IF YOU’RE FEELING FIT, THEN YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT NEXT WEEK – MAY 11 THROUGH THE 15TH IS BIKE TO WORK WEEK ON MAUI. THE MAUI BICYCLING LEAGUE WILL BE HOLDING DOOR PRIZE DRAWINGS FOR MAUI RESIDENTS WHO RIDE THEIR BIKE TO WORK ONE OR MORE TIMES NEXT WEEK. TO FIND OUT MORE – AND TO REGISTER FOR PRIZES FROM KRANK CYCLES, GO TO MAUITVNEWS-DOT-COM AND FOLLOW THE LINK TO COMING ATTRACTIONS.

NEXT SATURDAY, MAY 16TH IT’S THE SEVENTH ANNUAL TRIBUTE TO ALL THINGS SUDSY…AND TASTY. THE MAUI BREWERS FEATIVAL WILL FEATURE CRAFT BEERS FROM 37 MASTER BREWERS FROM ACROSS THE STATE AND AROUND THE WORLD. IN ADDITION, PUPUS TO COMPLEMENT THOSE BEERS WILL BE AVAILABLE FROM 26 CATERERS.VIP HAPPY HOUR STARTS AT 2-30 P.M. WITH THE MAIN EVENT RUNNING FROM 4 UNTIL 7. MUST BE 21 TO GET IN. THE 7TH ANNUAL MAUI BREWERS FESTIVAL NEXT SATURDAY IN THE A&B PAVILLION AMPHITEATER AT THE MACC.

OR FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT, CONSIDER ATTENDING THE 15TH ANNUAL MAUI MATSURI ON THE U=H MAUI COLLEGE CAMPUS COURTYARD. THIS FREE FAMILY FUN EVENT WILL DFEATURE JAPANESE AND OKINAWAN CLUTURAL ENTERTAINMENT AND FOOD, ARTS AND CRAFTS BOOTHS. DID WE MENTION FOOD? THERE WILL BE A HANAFUDA CONTEST, EATING CONTESTS A COSTUME CONTEST, OBON DANCING AND MORE. THE 20-15 MAUI MATSURI FESTIVA;, NEXT SATURDAY, MAY 16TH ON THE UH-MAUI COLLEGE CAMPUS FROM 2 UNTIL 9 P.M.

WE MENTIONED EARLIER THAT NEXT WEEK IS RIDE YOUR BIKE TO WORK WEEK. THE MAUI BICYCLING LEAGUE HAS ANOTHER EVENT COMING UP THAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT. SATURDAY, MAY 23RD THEY’RE PLANNING A RIDE OF SILENCE. IT’S A BIKE RIDE TO HONOR THE MEMORY OF KIHEI CYCLIST KARL HAGEN – WHO WAS TRAGICALLY KILLED AFTER BEING STRUCK BY A PICKUP TRUCK WHILE RIDING IN THE BIKE LANE ALONG PI’ILANI HIGHWAY LAST YEAR. RIDERS ARE ASKED TO MEET AT THE MOKULELE BIKE PATH NEAR TARGET. THE GROUP WILL KIDE TO KIHEI AND BACK ALONG THE PATH. AS A TRIBUTE, RIDERS ARE ASKED TO WEAR WHITE…AND TO RESPECTFULLY RIDE IN SILENCE. WE HAVE THE LINK TO MORE DETAILS ON OUR WEBSITE.

AND IT’S IT NOT MUCH LONGER NOW UNTIL MEGA-SHOWS ON MAUI – INCLUDING JOHN FOGERTY JUNE 6TH AT THE MACC. AND OF COURSE, THE INCREDIBLE DIANA ROSS AT THE MACC FOR TWO SHOWS – JUNE 14 AND JUNE 15. BELIEVE IT OR NOT, THERE ARE STILL SOME TICKETS AVAILABLE.

FOR DETAILS ON EVERYTHING WE’VE MENTIONED THIS WEEK, GO TO MAUITVNEWS-DOT-COM AND FOLLOW THE LINK TO COMING ATTRACTIONS. AND WE’LL BE BACK TO WRAP US THIS WEEK’S EDITION OF MAUI TV NEWS RIGHT AFTER THIS.

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THANK YOU FOR WATCHING MAUI TV NEWS ONLINE OR ON TV – AND – FOR PUSHING US TO MORE THAN 11 MILLION HITS PER YEAR AND MORE THAN 10,000 PAGE VIEWS EVERY DAY. SO, UNTIL NEXT TIME, MAHALO FOR WATCHING MAUI TV NEWS. HAU’OLI LA MAKUAHINE. HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY.

J: WELCOME BACK TO MAUI TV NEWS. MAUI ONSTAGE OPENED NEIL SIMON’S CLASSIC, SEMI-AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL, COMEDY BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS AT THE HISTORIC IAO THEATER IN WAILUKU. PAUL JANES-BROWN HAD A GREAT TIME, HERE HE IS TO TELL YOU WHY FOR THIS WEEK’S EDITION OF CURTAIN CALL.

PJB: ELIA KAZAN, THE LATE, GREAT DIRECTOR OF TENNESSEE WILLIAMS? CLASSICS SUCH AS STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE AND GLASS MENAGERIE SAID, DIRECTING IS 90% CASTING. APPARENTLY, RICKY JONES, THE DIRECTOR OF THIS PRODUCTION COULDN?T CHOOSE AMONG THE RAFT OF YOUNG PEOPLE HE SAW, SO HE DOUBLE CAST THE ROLES OF EUGENE, LAURIE, NORA AND STANLEY. I SAW IT OPENING NIGHT WITH A GREAT, SEASONED CAST AND I DON?T KNOW WHO YOU WILL SEE, BUT BE SURE TO SEE ZEB MEHRING AS EUGENE.

MR. MEHRING, WHO IS A SEABURY SENIOR, WILL BE ATTENDING YALE UNIVERSITY THIS FALL. HE IS A THEATER VETERAN, WHO HAS BEEN IN VIRTUALLY EVERY SEABURY PRODUCTION OVER THE LAST FOUR YEARS AND BEEN ON STAGE SINCE HE WAS IN SIXTH GRADE. HIS HAMLET REMAINS THE BEST I HAVE EVER SEEN AND WITH THIS PERFORMANCE, HE PROVED HE IS AS ADEPT AT COMEDY AS HE IS TRAGEDY.

AS THE NARRATOR OF THE SHOW, EUGENE MORRIS JEROME, THE YOUNGEST SON, MR. MEHRING DISPLAYED PERFECT COMIC TIMING AND MATURE MOMENT TO MOMENT WORK. PLAYING A YOUNG MAN WHO IS GOING THROUGH PUBERTY WHILE HIS FAMILY IS IN CRISIS ALLOWS MR. SIMON TO EXPLORE DIFFICULT ISSUES SUCH AS FEAR OF POVERTY, TOUGH PARENTAL DECISIONS, LONG STANDING FAMILIAL ANIMOSITIES AND SIBLING RIVALRY TO NAME A FEW, WHILE MR MEHRING SUPPLIED THE LAUGHS BOTH WITH LINES AND BEHAVIOR.

I LOVED HIS PUBESCENT INFATUATION WITH HIS COUSIN NORA PLAYED BY ASHLYN JADE ANIBAN, ESPECIALLY, HIS DROPPING THE NAPKIN AND HIS FACE TO CHEST SCENES. HIS RELATIONSHIPS ARE TRUTHFUL AND KNOWINGLY PORTRAYED AND HE DESERVED THE STANDING OVATION HE RECEIVED AT THE PLAY?S CONCLUSION.

MS ANIBAN PLAYED CHARM, FRUSTRATION AND ANGER. HER SCENE WITH HER MOTHER DONE WITH VULNERABILITY PERFECTLY BY NOEL OVERBAY SMIT, AS BLANCHE WAS ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL MOMENTS IN AN EVENING FILLED WITH THEM.

MR SIMON GAVE ALL OF HIS CHARACTERS COMPELLING SITUATIONS AND LOADS OF MOTIVATION. IF IT WERE NOT FOR THE CHARACTER OF EUGENE, THIS PLAY WOULD BE A DRAMA.

AS EUGENE?S BROTHER STANLEY, ORION MILLIGAN FRESH FROM HIS TERIFFIC WORK IN NEXT TO NORMAL IS GROWING EVERY TIME HE STEPS ONTO THE STAGE. HIS STANLEY WAS THE BEST WORK HE HAS DONE TO DATE. HIS SCENE ABOUT MASTURBATION WITH EUGENE WAS PLAYED SO WELL, THE AUDIENCE MAY HAVE FELT A LITTLE EMBARASSED BETWEEN THE LAUGHTER. MR MILLIGAN IS RAPIDLY BECOMING ONE OF MAUI?S BEST LEADING MEN.

AS THE MATRIARCH OF THE FAMILY KATE, ALLY SHORE WAS THE ONE IN CHARGE. IT MIGHT BE EUGENE?S STORY BUT SHE WAS THE ONE WHO MADE IT ALL WORK. EVERYTHING SPUN AROUND HER POWER. WITH HER BEGUILING, SMOKY VOICE, MS SHORE HAS A COMMANDING PRESENCE AND HER ONE EXPOSED INSTANCE WAS ALMOST TEAR INDUCING.

ANOTHER MAUI VETERAN, DALE BUTTON PLAYED JACOB “JACK” JEROME, THE OVERWORKED BREAD WINNER OF THE JEROME FAMILY. BECAUSE HE IS THE MAN, KATE DEFERRED TO HIM, BUT WE KNEW WHO WAS REALLY IN CHARGE. THIS IS A PART THAT MR BUTTON AND MR JONES CREATED. MR BUTTON WOULD NOT BE THE FIRST PERSON ONE WOULD THINK OF FOR JACOB?S ROLE, BUT MR BUTTON AND MR JONES WORKED HARD TO GIVE US THE JACK WE SAW AND IT WAS EXCELLENT WORK.

LAURIE, PLAYED BY KAYA GLOMB IS SADDLED WITH A THANKLESS PART PLAYING THE SICK COUSIN. MOST OF THE TIME SHE IS READING. SHE HAS A SCENE WITH EUGENE AND WE GET A GLIMPSE OF THE ANIMOSITY NORA HAS TOWARD HER.

MR JONES, WHO ALSO DID THE EXCELLENT SET DESIGN, HAS CRAFTED AN OUTSTANDING EVENING OF THEATER. HE HAS FOUND THE RIGHT BALANCE BETWEEN COMEDY AND PATHOS TO MAKE THIS FINELY WRITTEN WORK SING. IN LESSER HANDS THIS WORK COULD BE LIKE A SIT COM MEETS A SOAP OPERA.

MR JONES CAPTURED EVERY MOMENT. THE RELATIONSHIPS WERE VERY CLEAR AND WE KNOW HOW ANYONE FELT IN EVERY SCENE. THE SCENE WORK WAS SUPERB AND LIKE A CHAMPION SURFER, MR JONES RIDES THE SIMON WAVE EXPERTLY, CRAFTING THE UPS AND DOWNS, BUT ALWAYS MOVING THE STORY FORWARD IN A SURE ARC. BRAVO. THIS IS MR JONES BEST DIRECTING WORK.

BECAUSE IT IS DOUBLE CAST, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE WHAT KAIMANA NEAL, MAKELA WESSON AND MARLEY MEHRING DO WITH THE PIECE. I HAVE ENJOYED ALL OF THEIR WORK AND IT WILL BE WONDERFUL TO SEE MARLEY AND ZEB TOGETHER.

VICKI AND ROXI NELSON DID THE COSTUMES AND THEY WERE REMINISCENT OF THE PERIOD. I PARTICULARLY LIKED EUGENE?S KNICKERS, SOCKS AND SWEATER VEST AND NORA?S OUTFITS. I LOVED THE SET, MR. JONES DID A GREAT JOB ON IT. BY PRESENTING ALL THE PLAYING AREAS SIMULTANEOSLY HE MINIMIZED TIME BETWEEN SCENES. THIS IS THE FIRST SET I HAVE EVER SEEN THAT ACTUALLY HAD A FOURTH WALL.

BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS RUNS UNTIL MAY 10TH AT THE HISTORIC IAO THEATER IN WAILUKU. TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE BY CALLING 242-6969, ON LINE AT MAUIONSTAGE.COM, OR YOU CAN STOP BY THE BOX OFFICE, MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY 11AM TO 3 PM. DON?T MISS IT!!

THAT?S CURTAIN CALL FOR THIS WEEK, I?M PAUL JANES-BROWN A HUI HOU, NEXT WEEK I?LL HAVE A REVIEW OF THE START OF THE MAUI CLASSICAL MUSIC FESTIVAL MAPA?S SPRING EXTRAVAGANZA. STAY TUNED TO COMING ATTRACTIONS ON MAUITVNEWS RIGHT AFTER THESE MESSAGES.
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J: WELCOME BACK TO MAUI TV NEWS AND COMING ATTRACTIONS – A CHECK OF SOME OF THE MOST WONDERFUL THINGS TO SEE AND DO ON MAUI.

THE CREATIVE ZANINESS KNOWN AS THE ART OF TRASH HAS BEEN – PARDON THE PUN – DUMPED UPON US ONCE AGAIN. THE 13TH ANNUAL EDITION IS ON DISPLAY NOW AND THIS SATURDAY, MAY SECOND IS YOUR LAST CHANCE TO SEE IT…BEFORE THEY…TAKE OUT THE TRASH. RIM SHOT. SORRY…I COULDN’T RESIST. IT’S AT THE MAUI MALL. THE ART OF TRASH IS A JURIED EXHIBITION FEATURING ARTISTIC WORKS MADE COMPLETELY OUT OF MATERIALS THAT WOULD ORDINARILY BE DISCARDED AS TRASH. IT’S FUN, IT’S WACKY AND IT’S FREE. THE ART OF TRASH IS ON DISPLAY FROM 10 A.M. TO 6 P.M. DAILY AT THE MAUI MALL UNTIL THIS SATURDAY.

AND NOT TO BE CONFUSED, ART MAUI IS THE OTHER SPLASH OF CREATIVITY ON OUR ISLAND AND PAUL JANES-BROWN SAYS IT’S THE BEST ONE HE’S EVER SEEN. AND THIS SATURDAY, MAY SECOND IS YUOUR LAST CHANCE TO TAKE IT IN. ART MAUI IN THE SCHAEFER INTERNATIONAL GALLERY OF THE MAUI ARTS AND CULTURAL CENTER – OPEN DAILY THROUGH MAY SECOND.

FOR 110 YEARS, THE ST JOSEPH FEAST HAS RAISED SPIRITS AND FUNDS FOR EXTREMELY WORTHWHILE PROJECTS. THIS WEEKEND THE TRADITION CONTINUES. THE ST. JOSEP FEAST STARTED FRIDAY NIGHT AND WILL CONTINUE SATURDAY, MAY SECOND FROM 10 A.M. TO 10 P.M. AND SUNDAY MAY 3RD FROM 10 TO 4. MENU CHOICES INCLUDE MALASADAS, PRRTUGESE SOUP, CHOW FUN, NACHOS, BARBE Q TERITAKI, WAFFLE DOGS AND MUCH MORE. ST, JOSEPH FEAST AT ST. JOSEPH CHURCH AT 12-94 MAKAWAO AVENUE IN MAKAWAO. ADMISSION IS FREE.

THE QUEEN IS COMING…THE QUEEN OF FUNK HERSELF, CHAKA KAHN, IS COMING TO MAUI. TELL ME SOMETHING GOOD, I’M EVERY WOMAN, I FEEL FOR YOU…SHE’LL SING THEM ALL NEXT FRIDAY, MAY 8TH IN THE CASTLE THEATER OF THE MAUI ARTS AND CULTURAL CENTER. TICKET PRICES RANGE FROM 35 TO 125 DOLLARS FOR ONE SHOW AT 7-30 FRIDAY, MAY 8TH AT THE MACC.

THEN GO HOME AND REST UP BECAUSE THE NEXT MORNING, SATURDAY MAY 9TH IT’S THE 37TH ANNUAL VISITOR INDUSTRY CHARITY WALK. LAST YEAR THEY CAME WITHIN INCHES OF RAISING A MILLION DOLLARS. THE WALK STARTS AT 7 A.M. AND THE FOOD AND ENTERTAINMDENT – AS ALWAYS – WILL BE INCREDIBLE!

THE KAHO’OLAWE ISLAND RESERVE COMMISSION IS PLANNING A VERY COOL EVENT. ON MAY NINTH THEY WILL HOLD THEIR FIRST-EVER MAHINA’AI NIGHT FROM 6 UNTIL 8 P.M. AT THE KIHEI BOAT RAMP. YOU MIGHT REMEMBER IT WAS IN 2002 THAT THE KIRC WAS GRANTED 8 ACRES NEXT TO THE BOAT RAMP…AND THAT SITE WILL SOMEDAY BE THE LOCATION OF THE KAHO’OLAWE LEARNING CENTER. NOW THAT’S WHERE THEY PARK THEIR BOAT. THERE WILL BE GUIDED WALKS ON KIRC’S NEW WALKING TRAIL…THE UNVEILING OF A 40-FOOT MURAL CREATED BY STUDENTS FROM KIHEI CHARTER SCHOOL, MUSIC FROM THE UH-MC INSTITUTE OF HAWAIIAN MUSIC…FOOD VENDORS AND A CHANCE TO TALK STORY WIH FOLKS WHO ARE DEEPLY PASSIONATE ABOUT THE HISTORY AND RESTORATION OF KAHO’OLAWE. THE KIRC MAHINA’AI NIGHT, 6-8 P.M., SATURDAY, MAY 9TH. IT’S FAMILY FRIENDLY AND IT’S ALL FREE.

THEN GO HOME, CLEAN UP AND HEAD BACK TO THE MACC. FOR TWO SHOWS…ONE SATURDAY NIGHT, MAY NINTH AT 7-30 AND ONE SUNDAY, MAY 10TH AT 3 P.M., MAUI CHORAL ARTS PRESENTS “A NIGHT AT THE OPERA.” UNDER THE DIRECTION OF GARY SHIN LEVITT, THE SHOW FEATURES THE PIONO STYLINGS OF LOTUS DANCER AND THE VOCAL TALENTS OF THE LIKES OF BOB WILLS, JERRY EITING AND LISA PAULSON. TICKETS ARE 30 DOLLARS FOR ADULTS, AND 15 DOLLARS FOR 18 AND UNDER…OR STUDENTS WITH I.D. A NIGHT AT THE OPERA, IN THE MCCOY STUDIO THEATER OF THE MACC NEXT SATURDAY AND SUNDFA.

AND SPEAKING OF SUNDAY – DO NOT FORGET THAT SUNDAY, MAY TENTH IS MOTHER’S DAY. AND ONE INCREDIBLE ANNUAL REMINDER IS THE MOTHER’S DAY FEAST AT KA’ANAPALI BEACH HOTEL. THIS YEAR THEY’RE CELEBRATING MOM WITH THE KU’U MAMA ALOHA BRUNCH. FEAST ON A LAVISH ALL YOU CAN EAT BUFFET FEATURING CRAB LEGS, OYSTERS, PORK LAU LAU, HOSE-MADE POI, SAUTEED SNAPPER AND LITERALLY – TONS MORE. ENTERTAINMENT WILL ACCOMPANY YOUR BEAUTIFUL BRUNCH WITH YOUR BEAUTIFUL MOM. ALAKAI PALEKA, KPOA’S MORNING GODDESS WILL EMCEE THE DAY AND THERE WILL BE SPECIAL PERFORMANCES BY NAPUA GRIEG AND HER HALAU NA LEI KAUMAKA O UKA, AS WELL AS KAMAKA KUKONA WITH HALAU O KA HANU LEHUA. BRUNCH AT KBH IS A TRADITION YOU’LL WANT TO START FOR YOUR FAMILY…AND CHANCES ARE YOU ALREADY HAVE. BRUNCH IS 55-95 FOR ADYULTS. KEIKI 6 TO 12 EAT FOR JUST 26 DOLLARS AND KEIKI 5 AND UNDER EAT FREE – ONE FREE CHILD FOR EACH PAID ADULT.

AND EVEN FURTHER DOWN THE ROAD, JOHN FOGERTY JUNE 6TH AT THE MACC. AND OF COURSE, THE INCREDIBLE DIANA ROSS AT THE MACC FOR TWO SHOWS – JUNE 14 AND JUNE 15. GOOD LUCK FINDING TICKETS FOR THAT ONE.

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