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Press Release
Families Shine in APAC's "My Son Pinocchio"
It's a family affair at the Aloha Theatre for Aloha Performing Arts Company's next production. Real life father and son Bryan and Tanner Riley (Pictured at Left) are starring as stage father and son Geppetto and Pinocchio in Disney's "My Son Pinocchio." This new show, with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and book by David I. Stern, explores the classic children's tale from Geppetto's viewpoint. Keaton, Tanner's younger brother, is also in the show as one of the child soloists in the big production number "Toys." The Blue Fairy, who serves as a sort of narrator of the show, is played by Tiffany Kutsunai, who is also the assistant director. Her brother, Jonathan, and her mother, Jeannie, are also in the show. Jonathan plays the inventor Buonragazzo, whose machine makes perfect children, and Jeannie is in the chorus as a parent. Other family units involved in the project are: Christy and Nicole Aragon; Kristy, Miel and Maya Krauss; Zach and Ariana Kaneshiro; Kiani and Isaac Manju; Ashlee and Heather Bartlett; and Max Troberg and his siblings Kea and Pohaku Kauka.
APAC PRESENTS "GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS"
Rehearsals are underway at the Aloha Theatre for David Mamet's controversial dark comedy "Glengarry Glen Ross," the next production of Aloha Performing Arts Company. The 1982 play shows parts of two days in the lives of four desperate Chicago real estate agents who are prepared to engage in any number of unethical, illegal acts---from lies and flattery to bribery, threats, intimidation, and burglary--to sell undesirable real estate to unwilling prospective buyers.
WOODWELL, VALENTI, AND BOYUM STAR IN "ANYTHING GOES"
Amanda Woodwell made her stage debut at the Aloha Theatre in 1991, at age 5, in Aloha Performing Arts Company's "The King and I." She's now a 23 year old Pomona College graduate, and has come back home to appear as Hope Harcourt, the ingenue in APAC's upcoming production of Cole Porter's legendary Broadway musical comedy "Anything Goes." Woodwell, who will turn 24 during the performance run of the show, shares top billing with Sue Boyum, who plays the evangelist-turned-nightclub chanteuse Reno Sweeney, and Sam Valenti, who plays the young leading man Billy Crocker. These three APAC veterans are joined by nearly 40 other volunteer singer/actor/dancers from the community. The company is well into rehearsal, in preparation for the February 19 opening at the Aloha Theatre in Kainaliu.
ALOHA TEEN THEATRE CASTS "A CHRISTMAS STORY"
The popular holiday movie "A Christmas Story," which brought the "leg lamp" image and the phrase "You'll shoot your eye out!" into the yuletide lexicon, has been adapted for the stage, and will be presented by Aloha Teen Theatre, a division of Aloha Performing Arts Company, December 11-20, at the Aloha Theatre in Kainaliu. Auditions were held recently, and rehearsals are underway, with teen director Tiffany Kutsunai at the helm.
