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The Maui OnStage 2007-2008 Season!
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Once On This Island
Book & Lyrics by: Lynn Ahrens
Music by: Stephen Flaherty
Directed & Choreographed by: Brian Swasey
Music Director: Stephen Haines

July 11th - August 3rd, 2008
Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30pm
Sundays at 5pm






This highly original and theatrical Caribbean adaptation of the popular fairy tale “The Little Mermaid” sings and dances the story of Ti Moune, the black peasant girl who rescues, nurses and falls in love with Daniel, a mulatto from a wealthy family. When Daniel is returned to his people, the gods who rule the island guide Ti Moune on a quest to test the strength of her love against the powerful forces of prejudice, hatred and death.

Cast Includes:
as LITTLE TI MOUNE
as TI MOUNE/PEASANT GIRL
as DANIEL BEAUZHOMME
as MAMA EURALIE
as TONTON JULIAN
as ERZULIE (Goddess of Love)
as AGWE (God of Water)
as PAPA GE (Demon of Death)
as ASAKA (Mother of the Earth)
as ANDREA/MADAME ARMAND
as ARMAND


Blithe Spirit

Written by: Noel Coward
Directed by: Kristi Scott


November 9th - November 25th, 2007
Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30pm
Sundays at 5pm


Blithe Spirit (1941) is a comic play written by Noel Coward which takes its title from Percy Bysshe Shelly’s poem To a Skylark. The ingenious plot tells how novelist Charles Condomine invites into his placid country home an eccentric, breezy lady medium in order to learn the language of the occult. Little does Charles or his lovely second wife, Ruth, dream that the seance staged by the medium will summon back Charles' first wife, now "passed over" for seven years. But the lady from beyond, still handsome, still mischievous, appears and torments Charles by reminding him of their days and nights together. Only Charles can see or hear her. How Charles manages to extricate himself from the blithe spirit makes a hilarious conclusion to this very unusual farce. Hilariously funny, brilliant, clever and about as cockeyed as a play can be.

Cast Includes:
Barbara Sedano
as Edith
Nora Burns as Ruth Condomine
Joe Spangler as Charles Condomine
Paul Janes-Brown as Dr. Bradman
Marilynn Hirashima as Mrs. Bradman
Jennifer Rose as Madame Arcati
Sharleen Lagattuta as Elvira


The Foreigner

Written by: Larry Shue
Directed by: Jennifer Rose

February 8th thru February 24th, 2008
Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30pm
Sundays at 5pm






The scene is a fishing lodge in rural Georgia often visited by "Froggy" LeSueur, a British demolition expert who occasionally runs training sessions at a nearby army base. This time "Froggy" has brought along a friend, a pathologically shy young man named Charlie who is overcome with fear at the thought of making conversation with strangers. So "Froggy," before departing, tells all assembled that Charlie is from an exotic foreign country and speaks no English. Once alone the fun really begins, as Charlie overhears more than he should—the evil plans of a sinister, two-faced minister and his redneck associate; the fact that the minister's pretty fiancée is pregnant; and many other damaging revelations made with the thought that Charlie doesn't understand a word being said. That he does fuels the nonstop hilarity of the play and sets up the wildly funny climax in which things go uproariously awry for the "bad guys," and the "good guys" emerge triumphant.

Cast Includes:
Lou Young as "Froggy" LeSueur
Joe Spangler as Charlie Baker
Carole Levoy as Betty Meeks
Derek Nakagawa as Rev. David Marshall Lee
Courtney Minton as Catherine Simms
Justin Ove as Owen Musser
Kai Spence as Ellard Simms


The King and I
Music by: Richard Rodgers
Book & Lyrics by: Oscar Hammerstein II
Based on "Anna & the King of Siam" by Margaret Landon
Directed by: Alexis Dascoulias
Assistant Director: Jennifer Rose
Choreographer: Alexander Cardinalli

April 4th - April 27th, 2008
Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30pm
Sundays at 5pm



East versus West makes for a dramatic, richly textured and ultimately uplifiting tale of enormous fascination. It is 1862 in Siam when an English widow, Anna Leonowens, with her young son, arrives at the Royal Palace in Bangkok, having been summoned by the King to serve as tutor to his many children and wives. The King is largely considered to be a barbarian by those in the West and he seeks Anna's assistance in changing his image, if not his ways. With both keeping a firm grip on their respective traditions and values, Anna and the King grow to understand and, eventually, respect one another, in a truly unique love story. Along with the dazzling score, the incomparable Jerome Robbins ballet, "The Small House of Uncle Thomas," is one of the all-time marvels of the musical stage.

Cast Includes: (in order of appearance)

Joel William Agnew as Captain Orton
Jonathan Sifton as Louis Leonowens
Lisa Paulson as Anna Leonowens
Joe C. Tolbe as The Kralahome
Steven Michaels as The King
Dane Owen as Phra Alack
Kepa Cabanilla-Aricayos & Jeremy Cohen as Lun Tha
Ashlie Welte as Tuptim
Vania Lee Jerome as Lady Thiang
Joshua Franco as Prince Chululongkorn
Russ Taft as Sir Edward Ramsay
Tehani Cabanilla-Aricayos as Princess Ying Yaowlak

Niko Conmy, Marissa Godinez, Anna Gustafson, Sarah Ikioka, Jonathan Jerome, Comny Niko, Elisabeth Parrish, Gary Parrish, Joy Parrish, Skylar Parrish, Hannah Patrick, Cheyanna Simmons, Kellan Welch, Larissa Yee as the Royal Children

Lauren Burgess, Larry Noa Kawai III, Julie Kawamura, Sarah Loney, Leah Moens, Lauren Olsen, Dane Owen, Audrey Parrish, Larissa Yee as the Royal Dancers

Rueben Carrion, Allen Cohen, Noa Kawai as the Priests and Guards of Siam

Journey Aitken, Kendall Benoit, Lauren Burgess, Amy Kamikawa, Julie Kawamura, Claudia Lara, Ariel Lynch, Leah Moens, Samantha Osborne, Audrey Parrish as the Royal Wives

Katie Tolman as the Royal Attendant


 





 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 
   

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