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Posted on: Sunday, November 25, 2001

Holiday shows for kids abound

Advertiser staff

Themes of gratitude, respect and love abound in holiday productions for children, including separate plays by Honolulu Theatre for Youth and the University of Hawai'i-Manoa's department of theater and dance.

Tanner Henderson, Shen Sugai and Nara Springer perform in "Christmas Talk Story" at Tenney Theatre.
Brad Goda

HTY's "Christmas Talk Story" features short stories by 12 local authors, and each tale focuses on the theme "local children's Christmas experiences." E. Shan Correa's "Christmas at Malama," for example, illustrates a child's new-found respect for the elderly after a wild boar makes an unexpected entrance during a Christmas concert at an old folk's home.

Show times will be 2:30, 4:30 and 7:30 p.m. next Saturday, Dec. 8 and 15 at Tenney Theatre. Tickets are $10 for adults; $7.50 for students with high school or college ID; and $5 for children ages 3 to 12 and people 60 and over. Children 2 and under will be admitted for free but require a ticket. For more information, call 839-9885.

UH-Manoa's "The Little Prince," a play based on a story by French author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, follows the adventures of an aviator who meets a prince and his magical friends, including a fox and talking roses.

The play will be held 7:30 p.m. Dec. 14 and 15, and 2 p.m. on Dec. 15 and 16 at Kennedy Theatre's Earle Ernst Lab Theatre. Tickets go on sale Dec. 10 and are $9; $7 for non-UH-Manoa students, seniors, military, youth, and UH faculty and staff; and $3 for UH-Manoa students with valid Fall 2001 IDs. Call 956-7655 for more information.