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Week of Friday, April 29, 2016 | Vol. 4, No. 18

Grinds & Da Kines For Your Weekend

Twain and Tita

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IN THIS ISSUE: 2. OUT & ABOUT:

Top picks for the week

3. THEATRE:

‘The Rainmaker

4-5. COMEDY:

‘Twain meets Tita’

6. BOOK REVIEW:

‘East of Eden’

OUT & ABOUT: TOP PICKS FOR THE WEEK TODAY SATURDAY NA LEI HIWAHIWA CONCERT 6 to 9 p.m.

Kauai Beach Resort Malie Foundation Hawaiian music celebration featuring ‘Uhe’uhene and more. $20 advance, $25 door.

For tickets call 652-4497 or www. maliefoundation.org.

‘LEGALLY BLONDE’ 7 p.m.

Kauai Convention Hall Kauai Performing Arts Center presents “Legally Blonde.” $12 adults, $10 students

‘MS. DOUBTFIRE’ 7 p.m.

Anaina Hou Community Park Free movie night with refreshments and dinner for purchase.

PANCAKE BREAKFAST 7 a.m.

Jasmine Ballroom All you can eat breakfast buffet to help fundraise for the Charity Walk.

TUNNEL SIX CONCERT 6 p.m.

Courtyard by Marriott Kauai $30 adults, $15 students. 245-7464

‘LEGALLY BLONDE’ 7 p.m.

Kauai Convention Hall Kauai Performing Arts Center presents “Legally Blonde.” $12 adults, $10 students KEIKI BIKE AND SAFETY DAY 8 a.m. to noon Wilcox Memorial Hospital Free safety education event for kids and families.

7. CHECK DA SCENE: Fast and Furriest Festival

PAWS AROUND THE PARK 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

North Shore Dog Park Fundraising event with portraits, contests, food and more. 634-0313

‘LEGALLY BLONDE’ 3 p.m.

Kauai Convention Hall Kauai Performing Arts Center presents “Legally Blonde.” $12 adults, $10 students MAY DAY LEI CONTEST 11 a.m.

Kauai Museum.

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WOMEN BUILD 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Eleele Iluna Subdivision Women Build is a Habitat for Humanity International program that encourages women to make a difference by building homes and communities.

LONG DISTANCE RACE 7:30 a.m.

Salt Pond Beach Park West Kauai Canoe Club will be hosting their annual outrigger canoe long distance race. 645-6115

CRAFTERS FAIR 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

St. Raphael Church.

‘Legally Blonde’

SUNDAY

KEIKI DAY 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Na Aina Kai Botanical Gardens Play in Jack’s fountain, explore the jungle tree house, and many kid-friendly features of our Children’s Garden. $10. 828-0525

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KILAUEA DANCE CLASS 7 to 8:30 p.m.

Kilauea Neighborhood Center Class costs $20 for 5-week series or $5 drop-in. Sponsored

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TWAIN MEETS TITA 7 p.m.

Kauai Community College Performing Arts Center Comedy show with McAvoy Layne and Kathy ‘Tita’ Collins. $20 admission, $10 ages 12 and under.

KINDER CAMP 8:15 to 11 a.m.

Hanalei School cafeteria Hanalei School kindergarten orientation.

DAY OF PRAYER 8:30 a.m.

Moikeha Building Rotunda Annual National Day of Prayer celebration.

ART OPENING 6 p.m.

Trees Lounge Art opening for Natasha Young.

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COMEDY, HOPE TAKE STAGE

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Kauai Community Players ‘The Rainmaker’ opens May 6

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auai Community Players presents an American classic, “The Rainmaker” by N. Richard Nash, directed by Bard Widmer. The Rainmaker” opens May 6 and plays for three weekends through May 22, Fridays and Sature days at 7 p.m. and Sundays at 4 p.m. at the Puhi Theatrical Warehouse.

“The Rainmaker” is a dramatic comedy taking place on a ranch at the time of a paralyzing drought.

It focuses on Lizzie Curry (Rebecca Hanson), a plain girl whose brothers (Jim Warrack and Bailey Hutton) try every possible scheme

to marry her off, but without success.

Nor is there any sign of relief from the dry heat, when suddenly from out of nowhere appears Starbuck (Ian Foster), a charismatic, sweet-talking man with quite the sales pitch.

Claiming to be a “rainmaker,” Starbuck promises to bring rain for $100.

He is so refreshing and persistent that the family finally consents.

Foster, who plays Starbuck, has been performing since he was 5.

“I’ve acted throughout my life, college, after college. I wanted to get back

••• THE RAINMAKER When: Opens May 6 and plays for three weekends through May 22, Fridays and Saturdays at 7 p.m. and Sundays at 4 p.m.

Where: Puhi Theatrical Warehouse.

Cost: Tickets are $20

into theater,” Foster said.

Getting into character can be hard.

“Starbuck and I relate to a general sense, we both are a people person and interact well with people,” Foster said. “It allows me to expand on my range of character development.”

Hanson hasn’t been on stage for years.

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WHEN ‘TWAIN MEETS TITA’

One night comedy show on May 3 at KCC

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o celebrate the sesquicentennial of Mark Twain’s 1866 visit to Hawaii, Maui’s Kathy Collins and Nevada’s McAvoy Layne will present “Twain Meets Tita” in a May barnstorming tour of the Sandwich Islands.

This powerful show could well be subtitled, “Satire Meets Attitude.”

Employing wit, wisdom and humor, the Island Tita of 2016 will attempt to drag the Wild Humorist of the Pacific Slope into the 21st century. Where Twain’s price of land on Maui was as little

as one dollar an acre, Tita insists that dollar today will get you “not even one bag sand.”

In honor of Mother’s Day, as an added attraction at no extra cost, Collins and Layne will read from “The Diaries of Adam & Eve,” in period dress (Twain’s period, not Adam’s).

“Twain Meets Tita” hits Kauai for a one night showing on Tuesday, May 3, at Kauai Community College Performing Arts Center.

In February, Collins and Layne tested the waters with a reception in Nevada.

CHLOE MARCHANT TGIFR!DAY “It was gratifying, heartwarming and encouraging,” Layne said when asked about how the tour came about.

Layne has portrayed Mark Twain for the past 28 years, in over 4,000 performances from Piper’s Opera House in Virginia City to Leningrad University in Russia. He is the ghost of Samuel Clemens in The Discovery Channel’s Cronkite Award-winning documentary, Adventures

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of Huckleberry Finn, and has received numerous awards for his portrayals, including the Nevada Award for Excellence in School and Library Service.

Collins began performing on stage at the age of 13 and started her broadcast career at 17.

“My happiest moments in high school were spent on stage and competing in speech tournaments,” Collins said.

Raised on Maui, she often calls on her pidgin-speaking alter ego, “Tita,” during her weekly storytelling sessions at Makena Resort and frequent appearances at

out of my own skin and into someone else’s, even if it is just my alter ego, is always a thrill. But interaction with the audience is probably what excites me the most — when everyone in the house is laughing, crying, feeling together, myself included,” Collins added.

The enjoy and connection between these two will keep you entertained.

“Portraying Mark Twain with Kathy Collins is the most fun I’ve had in a white schools and libraries. suit,” Layne said.

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A STEINBECK CLASSIC CYNTHIA & ED JUSTUS SPECIAL TO TGIFR!DAY

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his week is a classic!

“East of Eden” by John Steinbeck is considered one of his best novels.

In fact, Steinbeck himself considered it his magnum opus! So what makes this book, compared to his other well-known titles such as “Of Mice and Men” and “The Grapes of Wrath”, so lasting and profound? Fact is people year after year, of all ages, when they discover this book, comment on how much of an impact it made on their life. Truly, it is for this very reason why Steinbeck’s works are considered “classics.”

The story takes place amidst the background of farmland America at the turn of the 20th century, spanning the Salinas Valley in California.

Regardless of its Americana setting, the impact that this story makes is due to the characters, and some have stated that these are the most interesting characters ever written. The interweaving family dynamics that force the destinies of these two families to be bound together (the Trasks and the Hamiltons) is the heart and soul of this tale.

The overarching theme stems (as one can tell by the title) from the Judeo-Christian story of the fall from Eden and the rivalries that occur between the family of Adam, but Steinbeck in his unmatched ability expounds upon this further and fleshes out the deep and personal motivations and outcomes

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of all the characters involved.

To this day, it remains a bestseller. Not only was it picked up by Oprah’s Book Club a decade ago, it was adapted into film and television presentations as well (the former starring James Dean) and there is still plans in the works for another film adaptation.

For a book that sells tens of thousands of copies every year since 1952, we suggest to read it yourself and find out why!

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Rainman

Meanwhile, the rainmaker also turns his magic on Lizzie, and perContinued from Page 3 suades her that she has “I’m very excited to get a very real beauty of her own. She believes it, just back out there. To be on stage with such a talented as her father (Morgan Lidstaff and director,” Hanson dell) believes the fellow can actually bring rain. said.

Rain does come, and so does love. Fili Lasau is File, the deputy sheriff and admirer of Lizzie, and Bruce Fehring is the sheriff.

“Everyone has hopes and dreams and that’s what I love about playing Lizzie,” Hanson said. “I feel that everyone can relate

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to her some how and shes trying to find her dreams that she feel will never come true. We all have times of dought and push to fullfill our dreams.”

Tickets are $20, $5 off opening weekend with discounts for KCP members, seniors and students.

For info and tickets go to www.kauaicommunityplayers.org or call 800838-3006. There is a PayWhat-You-Can Preview on Thursday, May 5 at 7 p.m., admission at the door by donation.

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he dog has to sit before the owner can sit in the doggie version of “musical chairs” during the Fast and Furriest festival at the Kauai Humane Society facility.

The criteria for the doggie version made for some interesting twists in the game in which people scramble for remaining chairs when the music stops.

“I should have brought my dog,” said Ron Wiley, the emcee for the fundraising event for the Kauai Humane Society. “He has a very strong wag and would’ve taken the

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Penny Cistaro, director for the Kauai Humane Society, said the event is a classic one being held at shelters everywhere, but on Kauai, it was a “friend-raiser, not a fund-raiser.”

Pet lovers could indulge in a day of friendly competition, meet new people, and get information on new items and news of pets from the variety of vendors who offered not only animal information, but human products which are pet friendly such as organic skin rubs and lotions.

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