Stage Reviews:
"Hawaii Opera Theatre’s A Little Night Music is a musical treat and its last showings are this weekend, August 9-10. The opening song gives you goose bumps—even after you realize that the five performers are only singing “La La La,” simplicity set within an elaborate melody. Read more.
"This Hawaii Opera Theatre Summer Season offers a pleasantly staged
and choreographed production of Sondheim's musical. The singers are
very well cast, the scenery and costumes are handsome; and most of all,
the orchestra conducted by Timothy Shaindlin does a superb job." -
Honolulu Star-Bulletin.
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"A Little Night Music is not to be missed by anyone with even the vaguest interest in arts and culture in Honolulu." - Honolulu Weekly. Read more.
"A Little Night Music,
the award-winning Stephen Sondheim musical premiering tonight at
Blaisdell Concert Hall as a Hawaii Opera Theatre summer attraction,
arrives ..." - Honolulu Advertiser.
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Louis Vuitton presents the HOT 2008 Summer Season
by Stephen Sondheim
August 1 & 3, 9 & 10, 2008
at Blaisdell Concert Hall
An award-winning Broadway Musical about lovers young and old in a poignant story about regrets and rejuvenating choices. Relations between a middle-aged widower and his young virgin bride are strained over her immaturity and refusal to consummate the marriage. Dejected, the husband turns to an old flame who has unexpectedly waltzed back into his world. Although she is already entangled with another married man, the old gal cannot resist the allure of her long-ago lover. Infidelity never seemed so right. Affairs abound between the pairs as the young find the foolish and the forgotten are renewed again. Read more.