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Week of Friday, May 4, 2018 | Vol. 6, No. 18

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Kauai Performing Arts Center is presenting its “Addams Family” musical production until Sunday at Women In Theatre’s performance space in Kukui Grove Center.

It’s already sold out.

KPAC is part of the state Department of Education Learning Center program designed to expand on educational opportunities for students with special talents and interests at the high schools.

“The center pulled students from all three of our public high schools,” said KPAC Board Member Katie Vercelli. “Waimea, Kapaa and Kauai all have high school students performing in this production. They actually receive course credit toward their fine arts credits in high school, which is wonderful.”

“They put on a spring

Photo courtesy of Katie Vercelli

Sarit Tacata is Wednesday, while Mahina Olores is Pugsley, in the “Addams Family” musical.

musical combining the high school students,” she said. “The students shuttle in from Kapaa and Waimea high schools to practice all semester at Kauai High School after school.”

This year’s performance is based on the book by Marshall Brickman and Rick

Elice with music and lyrics

by Andrew Lippa and characters created by Charles Addams.

“For the 2016-17 season, ‘Addams Family’ is the most produced musical across the United States,” Vercelli SEE MUSICAL, PAGE 3

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said. “It’s a really fun musical that has been performed on Broadway.”

Every student who auditioned was able to be a part of the production with music director by Nina Saraos.

“The book and lyrics are delightful and quirky,” said program director and Kauai High teacher Cher Ellwood.

“The music is full of passionate Latin rhythms.”

During the musical, the Addams family visits the graveyard for an annual celebration of all family members, living, dead and undecided. Uncle Fester enlists the help of ancestors, after Wednesday has fallen in love with a “normal” boy invited to dinner with her parents.

“The characters are iconic,” Ellwood said. “They are lovable, kooky, and a little bit spooky. The story depicts the importance of honesty in marriage and the value of family.”

The young character Wednesday admits that love is pulling her in a new direction, while her brother Pugsley concocts a plan to revive her darker nature.

Meanwhile, Morticia and Gomez worry about their daughter growing up and how it heralds a new phase of their own relationship.

Main roles of Morticia and Gomez are played by Lily Alt and Kane Casillas, respectively. Other leading roles in the musical are Sean Randol as Uncle Fester, Julie Goldberg as Lurch, Mahina Olores as Pugsley, Sarit Tacata as Wednesday, Aeden Betts as Lucas, Kharma Stambaugh

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Mal and Lucas Beineke are the Addams family’s dinner guests, played by Preston Hayden and Aeden Betts.

as Alice and Preston Hayden as Mal. “It has been a great honor to work with these talented and dedicated high school performers, orchestra and artists,” Ellwood said.

Sophomore Hayden is enjoying his first semester in KPAC and is considering studying film production in college.

Kasiah Vercelli, a sophomore at Kapaa High, plays Grandmama, and has been involved with KPAC since 6th grade.

“I learned that it’s OK to be myself,” she said.

She says that being involved with KPAC has given her a lot of confidence, and that it really brought her out of her shell.

This year, students have a chance to participate in

different areas of performing arts, such as set design, musical accompaniment, signing, choreography and dancing.

“There’s so many different opportunities for students,” said Katie Vercelli. “Because maybe not everyone is comfortable with the onstage performing, but there are those who might really enjoy behind the scenes with stage design and set building.”

The performances, normally held at Kauai War Memorial Convention Hall, were scheduled at the smaller WIT venue due to construction work at KWMCH. ••• John Steinhorst, reporter, can be reached at 245-0435 or jsteinhorst@ thegardenisland.com.-

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OKINAWAN FESTIVAL IS TODAY AND SATURDAY Music, dance and food sure to entertain and educate JOHN STEINHORST TGIFR!DAY

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njoy and experience Okinawan culture, food and dance while

benefiting Kauai’s very own Okinawan club, Hui Alu. The 2018 Kauai Okinawan Festival takes place tonight and Saturday at Kauai Veterans Center.

“We bring many performers to Kauai from Oahu to enhance the experience,” said Kent Yamauchi, Hui Alu Kauai club president.

“These performers love coming to Kauai, and we embrace the support they offer. Traditional sanshin (three-stringed instrument), odori (dancing) and eisa (drumming) performances will entertain our guests both nights.”

Live performances will feature traditional music

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Photo courtesy Hui Alu

The Kauai Okinawan Festival features simple offerings of authentic dishes such as champuru, stir fried vegetables without meat, today and Saturday at Kauai Veterans Center.

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A visiting sanshin, or Okinawa three-stringed instrument, group performs during the Okinawa festival presented by the Hui Alu Okinawa Club, last year at the Kauai Veterans Center.

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by Hawaii Eisa Shinyuu Kai, plantation worker folk songs Okinawa.

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by Allison Arakawa, classical look forward to enjoying anmusic of Tamagusuku Ryu Senju Kai with Shihan Fran- dagi (round donuts), rafute or Okinawan shoyu pork, ces Nakachi, Shishimai lion ashitibichi (pig feet soup), dance, and Kachashi.

“Kachashi is free-form Oki- yakisoba (stir fried noodles nawan dancing, everyone is with vegetables), Okinawan soba (noodles with broth), invited to participate,” said and champuru (stir fried first-time event organizvegetables), which will be er, Jonathan Chun. “It’s a included in all our entree competition between the plates,” Yamauchi said. dancers and the musicians.

Traditional crafters, along The musicians will play this with bonsai and cultural traditional Kachashi music, then they dance to see who displays, will be showcased inside the Veterans Center. can last the longest. Either The Japanese Club from the dancers can dance longer or the musicians can Kapaa High School will also be making and providing sing and play longer.”

Japanese charms as a serKachashi is typically vice to the participants. the ending dance of any “The Okinawan culture Okinawan festival, however

and dance has a long, long history here on Kauai and in Hawaii, and like all cultures people tend to forget,” Chun said. “Kauai has a very close relationship with Okinawa, and this really just helps solidify our longstanding relationship.”

The popular cultural event began in the late 1980s in Kapaa Town Park and has continued every other year into the ’90s at Kukui Grove Pavilion before relocating to the current location at Kauai Veterans Center in 2004.

“The focus is sharing and perpetuating the Okinawa culture,” Yamauchi said, “remembering and treasuring yesterday, working for today while developing and inspiring for tomorrow.”

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ISLAND LIFE LESSONS FROM LONDON CYNTHIA LYNN & ED JUSTUS SPECIAL TO TGIFR!DAY

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n the Makaloa Mat” is a collection of seven short stories by Jack London,

all being set in Hawaii up until around the 1910s. The book was published posthumously in 1919, and contains some of the last stories London wrote before his death.

They are all tales of love, family, or friendship, told against the background of Hawaiian history, customs, and lore.

Often they focus on the interaction between the old, authentic ways of Hawaiian life and the new, modern Hawaii under the “civilizing” influence of Western influ-

ence. London compares and contrasts these two sides of island life without judgment.

The stories in this collection exemplify London’s mature writing style as well as his innate insight into human psychology.

Here are some of the stories contained within its pages: “Shin-Bones,” is about an Oxford-educated Hawaiian prince recalling life-changing adventure to satisfy his superstitious mother’s

obsession with bone collecting; he accompanies an aged servant on a perilous quest to recover the hidden remains of his ancestors.

“The Bones of Kahekili,” a wealthy, white rancher persuades his elderly servant to reveal the whereabouts of the remains of an old Hawaiian chieftain and the mysterious events surrounding his burial.

“The Tears of Ah Kim” tells the story of a Chinese grocer in Honolulu who incurs the

wrath of his aged mother, who feels the bride-to-be is too modern, too liberal, and too westernized for her son.

In “The Water Baby,” an educated young Hawaiian man is treated to a folk tale while he accompanies a poor, elderly fisherman on a squid hunt.

“On the Makaloa Mat” is a great collection of Hawaiian stories and is an excellent companion to his earlier collection: “The House of

Pride and Other Stories,” making it a must for any fans of London’s works, or old Hawaii tales.

••• Cynthia Lynn and Ed Justus are owners of The Bookstore in Hanapepe.

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oes a lifetime of smoking weed produce chronic bad breath by the time you’re a few days short of 85?

Most of us will never know, but Willie Nelson suggests it does in one of the warm, quiet songs on

his mortality-tinged “Last Man Standing” CD. Willie’s been joking about death for a while now — better to keep it at bay, perhaps — and the wisdom he offers on this one is memorable: “Bad breath is better than no breath at all.”

A more serious approach colors the title song, which

opens this 11-song collection, co-written by Nelson, the part-time Maui resident, with longtime producer Buddy Cannon.

“I don’t want to be the last man standing,” he opens the CD, lamenting the loss of so many of his closest friends. Then there’s a pause — considering the alternative, as the old

chestnut goes — before adding, “Well, then maybe I do.”

That sets the tone. For longtime fans, who have enjoyed Willie for decades, it forces a painful acknowledgement that the end may be near.

Later he muses on reincarnation, saying he might come back as a preacher or

an eagle. And he expresses his desire to continue living this way: “Heaven is closed and hell’s overcrowded so I think I’ll stay where I am.”

He vows to do better the next time around.

Perhaps the strongest tune is the final one — “Very Far to Crawl” — which deals with heartbreak, not aging, on bluesy terms.

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ANAPEPE — Kauai Fire Department Battalion Chief Jason Ornellas spent his day in the Emergency Operating Center involved with disaster relief efforts Saturday.

But he made time to join his wife Maryann at the Hanapepe soccer fields to participate in the American Cancer Society Relay For Life that opened with the Survivors’ Reception and the Survivors’ Lap to the tune of applause from the growing number of team supporters cheering the appearance of cancer survivors.

The Relay For Life is the signature fundraising and awareness event for the American Cancer Society, offering everyone an opportunity to celebrate cancer survivors, remember those who lost their fight against cancer, and fight for a world free from cancer.

Support comes in many forms, as “Game Changers” offered food, games and knickknacks to brighten the evening around the hope circle created by luminaria remembering people’s fight against cancer.

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