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Loyal Garner postpones Mother's Day show

ON THE MEND: Because of ongoing chemotherapy treatments at Straub Hospital, singer Loyal Garner has been forced to postpone her annual Mother’s Day concert slated May 12, a day before Mother’s Day, at the Sheraton Waikiki’s Hawai‘i Ballroom. "I’m in my third week of chemo," said a weary Garner, "and this one has been rough." Health willing, she instead plans to do a belated Mother’s Day program in mid-August with specifics to be announced ...

AROUND ‘N’ ABOUT: Randall Duk Kim, the New York-based actor with Island ties, will be seen in the forthcoming Hallmark Hall of Fame mini-series "The Lost Empire," airing March 11 and 12 on NBC. He plays the archvillain, SHU the Censor, in the David Henry Hwang tale originally entitled "The Monkey King." Co-stars are Thomas Gibson, Russell Wong (the latter was in that "Hawaii Five-0" remake that went nowhere) and Bai Ling ...

Kevin Iwamoto, the former entertainer who now is travel (air and car) supplier for Hewlett-Packard Co. in Palo Alto, Calif., has been named to Yahoo-Frontier Airlines’ corporate travel board. He has become an industry spokesman and observer, most recently quoted in the Wall Street Journal. To think it all started for him at Hawaiian Airlines here ...

Bob Todd, veteran night manager of the Diamond Head Theatre’s box office, was in Florida at a "Beauty and the Beast" touring production when an announcement was made that an understudy would go on for the Beast. Normally, folks groan, but in this case, Todd took notice, because the sub was none other than David Spangenthal, who appeared in DHT’s "Crazy for You" a few years ago ...

Willie K will be the opening act for B.B. King when the blues king performs at 8 p.m. March 9 at Blaisdell Arena. Willie also heads for Maui and joins King in the March 10 concert at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center, but the other warm-up slots are filled by Tongue & Groove Thursday at the Kauai Marriott and by Big Phil and the Bottom Line March 11 at the Hilton Waikoloa on the Big Island ...

Bobby Brooks, who has been performing in the "Aloha Las Vegas" revue at the Waikiki Beachcomber Hotel, will be auditioning for a lead role in "Oh What a Night," a theatrical spectacle slated to open next fall in London’s West End ...

ITEMIZATIONS: What’s nice about an Army Community Theatre musical is that it’s purely a community effort - uneven at times but truly spirited. And "South Pacific," in production at Richardson Theatre at Fort Shafter, has a mixture of community pros (Charles Degala as Emile de Becque, Nan Asuncion as Bloody Mary) and military employees (Elisabeth Ann Wenzel as Nellie Forbusch, Brady Hulsey as Lt. Joe Cable) ...

We ran into Jason Tam, now a Punahou senior, at Diamond Head Theatre’s "Chess." He’s college-shopping, considering such schools as Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music and UCLA. The actor, who earned accolades when he played Gavroche in "Les Miserables" here and on tour almost a decade ago, now towers over parents Jim and Linda Tam. Sister Emily, a Carnegie Mellon grad who has a string of local show credits, now is headlining aboard a Royal Norwegian cruise ship in the Caribbean, the youngest to earn that distinction ...

Peg Stewart is covering news for Mike Buck during morning drive, effective yesterday, on KGU-760. She comes from a stint at KFI and KOST in Los Angeles and will also do news for sister stations KHNR 650 and KAIM AM-FM. It’s a reunion for Stewart and Buck (they worked together at KGU in the late 1980s). John Noland will continue to provide color and analysis for OIA prep football and Hawai‘i Pacific University basketball for Oceanic Cable 16 ...

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