Olympic beach volleyball, featuring Team USA and Team China, is heading to the Hilton Hawaiian Village’s beachfront Oct. 20. Hilton HHonors, the guest loyalty program for Hilton hotels, is teaming up with USA Volleyball to showcase volleyball greats from the London competition this summer in women’s, men’s and mixed-doubles competition.
The USA team will feature Kerri Walsh, April Ross, Todd Rogers and Phil Dalhausser; the Chinese players will be women Chen Xue and Xi Zang and men Penggen Wu and Linlin Xu.
NBC will tape the matches for November viewing, with delayed screening in China. Bottom line: It’s stellar advertisement for the Hawaii visitor industry.
Alas, Misty May-Treanor, who captured Olympic gold with Walsh, will not be here for the matches. …
DATELINE NEW YORK: Hawaii’s Jason Tam ("A Chorus Line," "Les Miserables") will co-star in an off-Broadway musical previewing Sept. 11 at the Clurman Theatre en route to a limited Oct. 2-21 run in New York.
Tam will co-star with Lauren Molina ("Sweeney Todd") in a two-person revue, "Marry Me a Little," featuring Stephen Sondheim tunes, including new ones either replacing or cut from such Sondheim classics as "Into the Woods," "Sunday in the Park With George" and "Follies." Should appeal to Sondheim fanatics eager for "a little (more) night music." …
The revue is a creation of Craig Lucas, who was a cast member of Sondheim’s "Sweeney Todd," and colleague Norman Rene, who was in the original "Marry Me" in 1981.
Not surprisingly, Tam’s parents, Honolulans James and Linda Tam, are planning yet another trek to Broadway. …
WHEE, THE PEOPLE: There will be a Kardashian connection to an October episode of CBS’ "Hawaii Five-0." She is Kendall Jenner, 16, one of the youngest members of "Keeping Up with the Kardashians," eager to earn her stripes as an actress, according to E! Online. …
And movie talent like Ving Rhames ("Pulp Fiction," "Mission: Impossible") and Terrence Howard ("Crash," "Iron Man") are among other guest talents booked on "Five-0" this season. …
Tom Moffatt, the longtime deejay and show presenter, will join PBS President and CEO Leslie Wilcox in hosting the live pledge drive during the airing of "Ed Sullivan’s Top Performers: 1966-1969" at 7 p.m. today. During the pledge break, Moffatt will auction two tickets to the Sept. 2 Glen Campbell concert at Blaisdell Concert Hall. …
And "Tom Moffatt — the Show Must Go On," a retrospective on the life and times of the showbiz vet, is in post-production at KGMB. No air date is set yet, but Phil Arnone is directing and Michael W. Perry will narrate. Look for a September or October launch. …
SEGUE TO SEGWAY: Veteran ex-Hilton publicist Jeanne Datz Rice has been partnering with husband Alan in the Segway business here for the past few years, and they’re opening a high-tech retail location shortly at the Waikiki Beach Marriott Hotel. A number of Segway tours are in the picture, too. …
Datz Rice also has taken an active role as a board member of the Hawaii Chapter of the Junior Diabetes Research Foundation, an organization providing aid to families with folks with type 1 diabetes. The foundation is seeking a celebrity spokesman to help promote the agency and serve as emcee at events such as the annual Walk to Cure Diabetes coming up Nov. 3 at Central Oahu Regional Park. If you can kokua, I can pass along Datz Rice’s contact info. …
And that’s "Show Biz." …
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Wayne Harada is a veteran entertainment columnist; reach him at 266-0926 or wayneharada@gmail.com; read his Show and Tell Hawaii blog at www.staradvertiser.com.
