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HONOLULU—March 22, 2007— Chaminade University of Honolulu’s Performing Arts Department will present Arthur Sullivan and W.S. Gilbert’s classic operetta The Pirates of Penzance at 7:30 p.m. on April 13, 14, 20 and 21 and at 4 p.m. on April 22 in Mamiya Theater, 3140 Waialae Avenue. Tickets cost $12 for adults and $7 for children, seniors, military, students and Chaminade faculty and staff. For advance tickets, call the Sullivan Library at 735-4725.
With nearly 40 talented cast and crew members, this spring musical is one of the University’s biggest and most challenging productions in recent years. Truly a collaborative effort, the production draws on not only the gifts and talents of Chaminade’s own students, staff and faculty, but also from the theater community at large, as well as from the University of Hawaii, Punahou School and Kalani High School. Directed by Bro. Gary Morris, SM, with Timothy Carney as its musical director and Brad Powell as its dance choreographer, the two-act comic operetta promises to be a hit with pirates, romance, plot turns and tongue twisting songs.
BRO. GARY MORRIS, SM, a native San Franciscan, has been directing plays for over thirty-five years and has close to one hundred to his credit. He is part of a team invited to Chaminade University to develop performing arts classes and programs on campus. This is his fourth year at Chaminade as associate professor of theater and English.
TIMOTHY CARNEY serves as associate professor of music at Chaminade University, where he teaches courses in Great Composers, Musical Theatre, and conducts the Chaminade Chorus. He is also music director of the Hawaii Vocal Arts Ensemble, a select choral group in residence at Chaminade.
BRAD POWELL is an award winning director, choreographer, dancer and actor. For 21 years, he was the executive producer/writer for educational television. He has acted, directed and choreographed at all of the major theatres in Hawaii as well as on the mainland, in Germany, Samoa, Portugal, Japan and Norway. Powell has had the pleasure of working with Bro. Gary Morris on several productions, including Godspell last year.
Celebrating more than 50 years of educating students for life, service and successful careers, Chaminade University offers programs of study grounded in the liberal arts with day, evening, online and accelerated courses. The main campus is located in Kaimuki at 3140 Waialae Ave., Honolulu, HI 96816, with 10 satellite locations around Oahu military bases and Catholic parishes and schools. For more information, visit the Chaminade Web site at www.chaminade.edu or call (808) 735-4711.
