Isle actress Harada claims her place on TV, Broadway

By Wayne Harada

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Feb 10, 2013

~~Local girl Ann Harada (no relation), a Punahou grad, continues to pop up on TV and on Broadway. She's done nine episodes, including last week's two-hour season two premiere, of NBC's "Smash," the reality show-like drama about the fictional mounting/making of a Broadway musical called "Bombshell." Harada plays the stage manager, Linda, as she did in season one. …
With "Smash" already under her belt, she's moved on to originate the role of Charlotte, one of the stepsisters, in a new "Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella" based on the 1957 TV special, now in previews at the Broadway Theatre in New York, heading for a March 3 premiere.
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Local girl Ann Harada (no relation), a Punahou grad, continues to pop up on TV and on Broadway. She's done nine episodes, including last week's two-hour season two premiere, of NBC's "Smash," the reality show-like drama about the fictional mounting/making of a Broadway musical called "Bombshell." Harada plays the stage manager, Linda, as she did in season one. …

With "Smash" already under her belt, she's moved on to originate the role of Charlotte, one of the stepsisters, in a new "Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella" based on the 1957 TV special, now in previews at the Broadway Theatre in New York, heading for a March 3 premiere. Login for more...