2009-2010

2009-2010 Season Brochure

Advance Super Saver Tickets to the 2009-10 mainstage season are on sale from July 13 to Sept 5. Click here for a super saver packet or call 956-7655 to get a copy of the full brochure! Super saver tickets will also be on sale online at www.etickethawaii.com beginning July 13.

ON THE MAINSTAGE:

WHEN THE CASSOWARY POOPED!
Adapted and directed by Tamara Montgomery
Based on the children's book When the Cassowary Pooped by Tamara Montgomery, with illustrations by Joseph D. Dodd.

Oct 2, 3 at 7:30pm
Oct 4 at 1:30pm and 4pm

Help find the giant, endangered Cassowary bird as he hides from audience and players in this delightful environmental tale. Puppets and magical effects combine with coconut "robber" crabs, birds of paradise and hip hop tree kangaroos to tell the humorous tale of how the Cassowary's "poop" helps create the New Guinea rainforest. For children ages 4-8 and young at heart adults.

Ticket Prices:
$12 Advance Super Saver; $15 Regular; $14 Seniors, Military, UH Faculty/Staff; $12 Students, Children; $5 UHM Students with ID
(All service fees included.)
Tickets are available online, at outlets, at 944-2697 beginning Sept. 14. Tickets available at Kennedy Theatre beginning Sept 28.

THE HOMECOMING
By Harold Pinter
Directed by Glenn Cannon

Nov 13, 14, 20, 21 at 8pm
Nov 22 at 2pm

A 70-year-old father lives in a seedy house in London with his brother and two adult sons. Into this volatile household enters the eldest son and his attractive young wife. Sexuality and a struggle for power, laced with moments of outrageous comedy, drive this play. Nobel Prize winner Harold Pinter is regarded as one of Great Britain's finest playwrights, and The Homecoming is generally accepted as one of his best plays.

Ticket Prices:
$16 Advance Super Saver; $20 Regular; $18 Seniors, Military, UH Faculty/Staff; $12 Students; $5 UHM Students with ID.
(All service fees included.)
Tickets are available online, at outlets, at 944-2697 beginning Sept. 14. Tickets available at Kennedy Theatre beginning Nov 9.

THE WHITE SNAKE
Jingju (Beijing opera) in its English-language world premiere

Feb 5, 6, 10, 11, 12, 13 at 8pm
Feb 7 and 14 at 2pm

Script by China’s National Actors of the First Rank Mr. Lu Genzhang and Ms. Zhang Ling
Score by National Musician of the Second Rank Mr. Zhang Xigui.
Artistic supervision by China’s National Actor of the First Rank Madam Shen Xiaomei
Translation by Elizabeth Wichmann-Walczak and Hui-mei Chang
Produced and directed by Elizabeth Wichmann-Walczak
Musical direction by Frederick Lau
Orchestra conducted by Daniel Tschudi

The White Snake (Bai She Zhuan) relates the famous legend of a snake spirit who descends to earth as a beautiful woman, marries a handsome young man, and then must fight to restore his life and save their marriage in the face of supernatural attacks from a powerful monk who believes that she is an evil demon. This production features exciting acting and combat, thrilling song and music, including flute-accompanied song directly derived from the classical Kunqu, proclaimed a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO in 2001.

Ticket Prices:
$18 Advance Super Saver; $22 Regular; $20 Seniors, Military, UH Faculty/Staff; $15 Students; $5 UHM Students with ID.
(All service fees included.)
Tickets are available online, at outlets, at 944-2697 beginning Sept. 14. Tickets available at Kennedy Theatre beginning Feb 1.

DANCING GREEN
ANNUAL DANCE CONCERT
Choreography by UH Faculty and Guest Artists
Performance by UHM Students
                       
March 11, 12, 13 at 8pm
March 14 at 2pm

Dancing Green takes sustainability to the stage with dances created on environmental themes.  Thrift and elegance can indeed go hand in hand!  Partnering with a variety of community and campus organizations, Dancing Green offers a fun and enriching dance theatre experience with a clean conscience.

Ticket Prices:
$16 Advance Super Saver; $20 Regular; $18 Seniors, Military, UH Faculty/Staff; $12 Students; $5 UHM Students with ID.
(All service fees included.)
Tickets are available online, at outlets, at 944-2697 beginning Sept. 14. Tickets available at Kennedy Theatre beginning March 8.

THE JUDITH OF SHIMODA
The World Premiere of the English language version
By Bertolt Brecht
Translated by Markus Wessendorf
Directed by Paul Mitri

April 30, May 1 at 7:30pm
May 2 at 2pm

This rediscovered and restored play draws on historical events that occurred after Commodore Perry opened Japan to the West in 1854. To appease the American consul who threatens to bomb the city if the Japanese refuse to negotiate a trade agreement, Japanese authorities ask Okichi, a geisha, to serve him. Brecht focuses on what happens to Okichi after she agrees to sacrifice herself for the sake of her country. Although Okichi becomes a heroine of Japanese patriotism, her real life is ruined: her marriage breaks up, she is called a “foreign whore,” and she dies impoverished and an alcoholic.
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MAHAGONNY SONGSPIEL
Libretto by Bertolt Brecht; Music by Kurt Weill
Directed by Henry Akina

In a special prelude to The Judith of Shimoda, the Mae Z. Orvis Opera Studio of Hawaii Opera Theatre will perform “the little Mahagonny.” Though just a glimpse of the full-length opera The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, boxing, eating, and sex are the cornerstones of this anti-utopia. Brecht’s characters are wanderers who found the city and prey upon those who come after them.

Ticket Prices:
$16 Advance Super Saver; $20 Regular; $18 Seniors, Military, UH Faculty/Staff; $12 Students; $5 UHM Students with ID.
(All service fees included.)
Tickets are available online, at outlets, at 944-2697 beginning Sept. 14. Tickets available at Kennedy Theatre beginning April 26.

Mahagonny Songspiel and The Judith of Shimoda are presented in this double bill in conjunction with the 13th Symposium of the International Brecht Society on 'Brecht in/and Asia' at UHM May 19-23.For more information on the Brecht Conference and other Brecht events in Honolulu visit: http://manoa.hawaii.edu/brecht2010/

SPECIAL EVENTS

THE SOUND OF ECSTASY AND NECTAR OF ENLIGHTENMENT
Buddhist Ritual Song and Dance from Korea: a performance by the Young San Preservation Group of Korea. 
Oct 8 at 7:30pm

Sponsored by UHM Outreach College and the Korea Society

Click here for more information

Harmonies as resonant and meditative as the religious devotion they represent will fill Kennedy Theatre as the Korean Buddhist monks of the Young San Preservation Group perform pömp'ae  or "sacred chanting." The Group's singing will be accompanied by traditional Korean drums, cymbals and gongs as well as ritualized dance pieces known as chakpop.

Advance Ticket Prices: $27 Regular; $22 Seniors, Military, UH Faculty/Staff, Students; $17 UHM Students with ID.
Ticket Prices at the Door: $30 Regular; $25 Seniors, Military, UH Faculty/Staff, Students; $20 UHM Students with ID.
(All service fees included.)

Tickets are available online, at outlets, at 944-2697 beginning Sept. 14. Tickets available at Kennedy Theatre beginning Oct 5.

A CONCERT OF CHINESE THEATRE SONG—JINGJU (BEIJING OPERA) AND KUNQU
One Night Only!
February 8 at 8pm

This concert of Jingju and Kunqu classics is cosponsored by the Chinese Opera Association of Hawaii and the Hawaii Rainbow Kunqu Society. A highlight will be special performances by master Jingju artists Lu Genzhang, Zhang Ling, and Zhang Xigui of the Jiangsu Province Jingju Company, who will be in residence training students for The White Snake. Joining them will be members of the two Hawai`i groups who have been studying the art of Jingju and Kunqu singing. This will be the first public performance of Kunqu song in Hawai`i in over 20 years.

Ticket Prices:
$18 Advance Super Saver; $22 Regular; $20 Seniors, Military, UH Faculty/Staff; $15 Students; $5 UHM Students with ID.
(All service fees included.)

Tickets are available online, at outlets, at 944-2697 beginning Sept. 14. Tickets available at Kennedy Theatre beginning Feb 1.

FROM THE HORSE’S MOUTH HAWAI'I
March 19 & 20 at 8pm

A live dance/theater concert in which twenty leading dance professionals from Hawai‘i collaborate, each telling a story from their life, performing their own dance sequence, and interacting with the other participating artists.  New York-based choreographers Tina Croll and Jamie Cunningham will work with the Hawai‘i dance experts to create this once-in-a-lifetime show.  Presented in collaboration with Tim Bostock Productions.

Ticket Prices:
$22 Advance Super Saver; $30 Regular, $25 Seniors, Military, UH Faculty/Staff; $20 students; $15 UHM Students with ID.
(All service fees included in ticket prices.)
Tickets are available online, at outlets, at 944-2697 beginning Sept. 14. Tickets available at Kennedy Theatre beginning March 8.