SHOW BIZ
10-year-old appearing on TV spots and stage

By Wayne Harada
Advertiser Entertainment Writer

The Makaha Sons, on tour in Japan, have been signed on for another season on chef Sam Choy's cooking show on KHNL-8 at 6:30 p.m. Saturdays. So Louis "Moon" Kauakahi, Jerome Koko and John Koko will be providing the music while Choy whips up his kitchen delights. Also look for the Sons in a Na Mele Series program on PBS at 7:30 p.m. April 3. ...

Further, the trio has completed a new jingle for Aloha Shoyu, which Choy endorses and uses, and is completing other spots for a gamut of businesses, including Honolulu Trading Co., Kamehameha Garment, Sam Choy's Kitchen Show, Sam Choy Diamond Head Restaurant and Ward Warehouse, according to John Koko. ...

HUNKY DORY: The Honolulu Theatre for Youth's "Dis/Troy," the Yokanaan Kearns adaptation of Homer's "The Iliad" playing at 4:30 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday and again March 13 and 20 at Tenney Theatre, had teens weeping last weekend. Teen boys, no less. With a cast of heartthrobs, the girls are happy — Reb Beau Allen is Agamemnon, Louie Hung is Achilles and Herman "Junior" Tesoro is Patroclus, though these gents all cross-dress as goddesses, too, for a merry Grecian turn. Janice Terukina is the lone female in the cast. Word of mouth should get those seats filled. ...

WHEE, THE PEOPLE: Shari Lynn, the singer who's also a teacher at La Pietra, is teaming up with another crooner about town, Jimmy Borges, offering a mini Sunset Jazz concert for 12 (music plus pupu catered by Marbella restaurant) at the school's courtyard, to a top bidder in the school's "Hoopla!" fund-raiser March 13. Another savory biddable: A performance by Beverly Noa, Mahi Beamer and Nina Keali'iwahamana plus a curry dinner for 16, also in the school's courtyard. ...

And Lynn managed to whisk herself to Army Community Theatre, in time for Sunday's Readers' Theatre production of Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" in which she plays Honey. She was in Las Vegas for the Association of Choral Directors of America convention (which attracted, among others, Tim Carney and Don Conover) was able to join co-stars Jo Pruden, Richard Pellett and Russell Motter on stage. ...

So how did you fare in your Oscar predictions? This year's was a no-brainer; we got seven out of the seven main categories. ...

Jim Belushi spent Academy Awards night at Ruth's Chris Steak House at Restaurant Row, earning gracious and personable accolades from the staff. ...

FINALLY: Paula Fuga of Waimanalo was on Monday's "American Idol," donning her trademark "Big Girls Rock" T-shirt. She was a darling among anxious auditioners at the Sheraton Waikiki preliminaries last October. On the "Uncut, Uncensored and Untalented" special, she did a Jawaiian original that jabbed judges Randy Jackson, Paula Abdul and Simon Cowell. And wasn't that local girl Michon Suyama dancing in support of William Hung, during "She Bangs"? ...

The touring company of "Flower Drum Song," the version adapted by David Henry Hwang, earned some raves when it played in Houston. The cast includes Islander Alvin Ing, who plays Uncle Chin. Nope, Hawai'i is not a destination at this moment. ... And that's Show Biz. ...

Show Biz is published Tuesdays and Thursdays. Reach Wayne Harada at wharada@honoluluadvertiser.com, 525-8067 or fax 525-8055.