Posted at 10:21 a.m., Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Les Keiter focus of his daughter's new show
Advertiser Staff
The daughter of noted sportscaster Les Keiter has written a play about her father, "They Call My Dad the General," and will appear in the one-woman multimedia show in a two-day, three-performance run Sept. 23 and 24 at La Pietra-Hawai'i School for Girls, on the slopes of Diamond Head. A fourth show will be staged Sept. 30 at 'Iolani School.Cindy Keiter Reilly's CKR Productions will present the play, which also features additional material by director Padraic Lillis. The work depicts the life of Keiter, recalling some of his pioneering work calling boxing matches and recreating baseball games alone in a studio with only game statistics and a microphone and minimal sound effects.
The youngest of five Keiter children, Cindy is returning home after three decades to offer a hilarious and moving tribute to her father's distinguished career, but also to bring perspective to her family life and how they coped through losses. She is a graduate of La Pietra-Hawai'i School for Girls and of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.
Les Keiter, author of "Fifty Years Behind the Microphone," was inducted into the Baseball hall of Fame at Cooperstown in 1998. His career spanned six decades and for years he was sports anchor at KHON-2.
The production will utilize archival footage and photos of sports and broadcast legends such as Muhammad Ali, Howard Cosell and Floyd Patterson.
Curtain time is 4 and 7 p.m. Sept. 23 and 4 p.m. Sept. 24. The 'Iolani performance will be at 3 p.m.
Tickets are $14, with proceeds benefitting La Pietra-Hawai'i School for Girls. Call 924-7515.
The 'Iolani performance is free, thanks to the sponsorship of the Tam and Young Visual and Performing
Arts Chair of 'Iolani. Call 943-2244.
