AROUND TOWN
Shari Lynn tops 'Mame' casting
By Wayne Harada
Advertiser Entertainment Editor
Shari Lynn, the award-winning singer-actress, will portray the title role of "Mame" in Diamond Head Theatre's revival of the popular Jerry Herman musical, which opens with a gala benefit March 20 at DHT and a public run from March 22 to April 7.
However, other roles will be cast in auditions set at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 2 p.m. Sunday at DHT.
Auditioners should be prepared to sing a Broadway-style tune and provide appropriate sheet music in their own key; singing to taped music, or a cappella performances, will not be allowed.
Wear appropriate rehearsal clothes and be prepared to read from the script, which is available for perusal at the DHT box office.
John Rampage, DHT's artistic director, will direct and choreograph the show, with Donald Yap handling the music. The show features a book by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. The story deals with a strong-willed, life-loving aunt who ministers to her orphaned nephew Patrick, often with mixed results. The score boasts a handful of Herman hit songs, including the title tune, "Bosom Buddies," "If He Walked Into My Life" and "We Need a Little Christmas."
Information: 733-0277.
Pinkosh reviving 'Haole Boy' role
Mark Pinkosh, actor-writer, and Godfrey Hamilton, playwright-director, the pillars of the Starving Artists Theatre Co., will revive the one-person comedy, "Haole Boy," starting Jan. 25, under the auspices of the Hawai'i Pacific University Theatre at HPU's Windward campus, 45-045 Kamehameha Highway.
Written and performed by Po'okela Award-winning Pinkosh and directed by Hamilton, "Haole Boy" chronicles the life of a haole growing up in Hawai'i, from age 8 to mid-30s, and traces his encounters with a myriad of characters, including June, a Japanese girlfriend; Lowell, a third-grader with a strange take on the universe; and Auntie Elenore, an 80-year-old Portuguese woman with a sharp tongue and an outspoken attitude. The Starving Artists Theatre originally staged the play in 1991.
Play dates will be at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 4 p.m. Sundays, from Jan. 25 through Feb. 3. Tickets: $14 for adults, $10 for seniors, military, students and HPU faculty and staff, and $5 for HPU students. Reservations: 375-1282.
