Shari Lynn, a Hawaii School for Girls music teacher when she’s not singing, has a full platter (a plate’s way too small) in the weeks ahead. Highlight: She becomes a Blue Noter along the way.
Consider:
>> April 17, 2 p.m.: Shari joins the cast of “Joyce Maltby and Friends: As Time Goes By,” at Temple Emanu-El. Maltby directs and stars in a Glenn Cannon Foundation-sponsored celebration of life through words and music; Earll Kingston, Maxine Hong Kingston, Becky Maltby, Larry Bialock and Don Conover (on piano) are other participants. Wordsmith sources include William Shakespeare, James Joyce, Charlie Chaplin, Eugene O’Neill, plus the aforementioned Hong Kingston. Call 595-7521 or visit shaloha.com.
>> April 22, 6:30 and 9 p.m.: Shari goes jazzy in her debut at the Blue Note Hawaii, Outrigger Waikiki Beach Resort. “I’ll dedicate the show to Jimmy Borges,” she said. Call 784-7033.
>> April 23: She performs with the PBS Big Band (featuring trumpeter brothers Phil and Bob Scellato) in an invitational benefit aboard the Battleship Missouri Memorial.
>> April 29 and May 27, 7:30 to 10:30 p.m.: Shari’s last-Friday-of-the-month gigs continue at Medici’s at Manoa Marketplace, with pianist Jim Howard and bassist Bruce Hamada. Call 988-0520.
>> May 11, 6 p.m.: La Pietra Choir spring concert at Hawaii School for Girls. Call 922-2744.
>> Aug. 22, 7 p.m.: Shari links with the Mike Lewis Big Band at La Salle at the Pagoda Floating Restaurant; replaces a gig that had been scheduled for today. Call 948-8370.
Shari embarks on her annual New York jaunt May 31, with stops in Washington, D.C., and Las Vegas, largely to check out jazz gigs and Broadway musicals. …
DATEBOOK: The event of the week is the Tony Award-winning musical “The Book of Mormon,” opening Wednesday for a limited run through May 1 at Blaisdell Concert Hall. This is the real deal — performed by a national touring company, with all the bells and whistles of the original — featuring Bill Harrigan Tighe as Elder Price and A.J. Holmes as Elder Cunningham in the profane but popular lampoon of Mormonism. …
The Hawaii Prince Hotel observes Administrative Professionals Day from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. April 27 in the Mauna Kea Ballroom with a roster of award-winning performers (Amy Hanaiali‘i, Mark Yamanaka, Bobby Moderow Jr., Raiatea Helm, Ben & Maila, Lehua Kalima, Kawika Kahiapo and Jeff Peterson) plus a Hawaiian feast. Cost: $55 per person, $525 per table of 10. Reservations: 952-4789 or events@hiprince.com. …
THEATER NOTES: Chaminade University’s Performing Arts Department will stage the Hawaii premiere of a Broadway musical, “First Date,” at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Mamiya Theatre. Brother Gary Morris directs; the show runs at 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 4 p.m. Sundays, through April 24. “First Date” is a musical comedy by Austin Winsberg (book) and Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner (music and lyrics), on the perils of a blind date. Participants include sisters Nicole and Natasha Enos, who are daughters of producer-performer-playwright-composer Johnson Enos of “Honu by the Sea,” the children’s musical. Nicole portrays the lead character, Casey; older sister Natasha, who has stage- managed numerous Chaminade productions, now is mentoring the student stage managers for “First Date.” Yep, Dad’s mighty proud. Call 202-6490 or 735-4837. …
Director Vanita Rae Smith’s Readers Theatre will feature Steven Sachs’ “Bakersfield Mist” May 3, 5 and 8 (at 7 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday and 2 p.m. Sunday) at Pohai Nani in Kaneohe. Sandy Ritz and Peter Clark portray Maude and Lionel in the comedy. She is a feisty bartender convinced she has acquired an original Jackson Pollock painting worth millions at a flea market; he is an art expert dubious of its authenticity. Warning: foul language. Call 254-4885 or 436-5478. …
And that’s “Show Biz.” …
Wayne Harada is a veteran entertainment columnist. Reach him at 266-0926 or wayneharada@gmail.com. Read his Show and Tell Hawaii blog at staradvertiser.com.
