SHOW BIZ
Sharon Stone celebrates birthday on Maui

By Wayne Harada
Advertiser Entertainment Writer

CURTAIN CALLS: Army Community Theatre's "Kiss Me, Kate" wound up its run Saturday night at Richardson Theatre at Fort Shafter with a sell-out, despite thundershowers. A cast party at Compadres saw performers exchanging aloha and gifts. Too bad ACT doesn't hold over shows; what a stunning production this was, on all fronts: talent (Cathy Foy, in a tour de force; Buz Tennent, Tricia Marciel, Cole Horibe, Gerald Altwies), direction and choreography (Jim Hutchison), musical direction (Emmett Yoshioka), and sets (Tom Giza), produced (by Vanita Rae Smith) on the proverbial shoestring but with grand results. In a word: wunderbar. ...

New Zealand producer Stuart Macpherson took in the "Kate" finale. He was in town to finalize details for his "Rock Legends" musical playing April 23-25 at Blaisdell Concert Hall. Tickets ($35 to $65) are on sale at the Blaisdell box office and at Ticketmaster. ...

The good news at Manoa Valley Theatre is that "Copacabana," the Barry Manilow musical, was extended a week before opening. The sad news is that it's mostly eye candy. Lead players Elitei Tatafu Jr. and Zenia Zambrano have fun and energy to spare, but there's little spark or chemistry from the slight book; great sound, though, from the six-member orchestra conducted by Mark Minasian. The celebratory title song is the encore, so if that's what you go to hear, stay till the very end. ...

Katie Doyle will play Alice Kramden in "The Honeymooners: The Lost Episodes," an MVT benefit co-starring Joe Moore as Ralph Kramden and Pat Sajak as Ed Norton, which plays June 17-20 at the Hawai'i Theatre. "From the moment Pat Sajak and I decided to do 'The Honeymooners' on stage, I knew who I wanted to play my on-stage wife," said Moore, who has been "rehearsing" with Sajak via long-distance phone calls. Jim Hutchison will direct. ...

RANDOM NOTES: Tanner Henderson, front man for the group Chant, welcomed his second son, Cross Nahikulama'okealaula Rivera Henderson, when wife Michelle Rivera (a VIP services coordinator for Ko Olina developer Jeff Stone) gave birth Feb. 12.

The lad was 7 pounds 1.6 ounces, and 19 1/2 inches long. ...

Broadway producer-director Richard Jay-Alexander was pleased to learn Hawai'i Pacific University theater director Joyce Maltby quoted him in her notes for "Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris" at HPU's Windward campus. Jay-Alexander, who did the liner notes in a reissue of the original "Brel" cast album, learned about the notes from Lisa Josephsohn, a first-nighter at the play along with Steve Harmon, Sylvia Horman-Alper and Andrew Meader . ...

National radio show host Doug Stephan ("Doug Stephan's Good Day") has been on a working vacation, using the Clear Channel studios at Dole Cannery to broadcast his show last week. He'll do it again today and tomorrow, live on KHBZ 990 AM from 1 to 7 a.m. ...

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.