Violet the 2013 Spring Musical

The Kaimuki High School Performing Arts Center proudly presents the Hawaii Premiere of 'VIOLET".

With music by Jeanine Tesori and book and lyrics by Brian Crawley, "VIOLET" is a musical about a young girl...’s journey toward acceptance. Ba...

sed on the short story "The Ugliest Pilgrim" by Doris Betts, “VIOLET” has won the Drama Critics’ Circle Award and the Lucille Lortel Award for Best Musical.

Set against the backdrop of the 1960's Civil Rights movement, the musical follows the growth and enlightenment of a bitter young woman hideously scarred by her father during a wood cutting accident. In hopes that a TV evangelist can cure her, she embarks on a journey by bus from her sleepy North Carolina town to Oklahoma. Along the way, she meets a young soldier who teaches her about beauty, love, courage and what it means to be an outsider.
  On my Way

Press Release "Beauty Is a Beast"

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Kaimuki High School

Performing Arts Center

Presents “Beauty IS a BEAST” Children’s Play

October 20-21 & 27-28, 2012

 

(Honolulu, Hawaii)  When is beauty not beautiful?  ...when her name is Beauty, but her actions are beastly.  Written by Emmy Award-winning author, D.M. Bocaz-Larson, Beauty  IS a BEAST "is a magical fairy tale about a spoiled Princess named Beauty who has her life turned inside out.  

 

Kaimuki High School Performing Arts Center’s presents its fall children’s show.   The 12+ person cast from Kaimuki High School Performing Arts Center (KHSPAC) will perform the play at the school auditorium.

 

Targeted for younger audiences, but fun for all ages, Beauty  IS a BEAST will be performed on Saturdays, October 20 and 27 at 7 p.m., with 3 p.m. matinees on October 21 and 28. Kids under three are free, ages 3 to 4 are $3, and students, military and seniors with I.D. are $5.  Adult tickets are $10. Box office opens thirty-minutes before each performance for ticket sales.

 

Kaimuki High School is located at 2705 Kaimuki Ave., between Kapahulu Ave. and Kapiolani Blvd.

 

ABOUT KHSPAC:  Kaimuki High School Performing Arts Center offers classes in acting, music, dance and technical theater at no cost to public school students all over Oahu. The program’s mission is based on the belief that performing arts develop important life skills including discipline, teamwork, creativity, self-awareness, confidence, focus and appreciation of the performing arts. Under the direction of M.J. Matsushita, the program and its musical and dramatic productions involve about 160 students who present three major productions per school year.  KHSPAC is one of three Department of Education learning centers for performing arts on Oahu.  For more information, contact Joanne Libarios at 733-4913 or via e-mail: jlibarios@gmail.com.