32nd Season 1998

LAVA

By Edward Sakamoto

Directed By Shizuko Hoshi

 

Set Design Chris Tashima

Costume Designer Dori Quan

Lighting Designer Rae Creevey

Sound Designer Scott Nagatani

Property Master Ken Takemoto

Puppet Designer Mako

Stage Manager Victoria A. Gathe

WORLD PREMIERE
Opening Date: September 16, 1998

 

 

A Hawaiian comedy set in Volcanoes National Park, LAVA brings a local guy and a haole together.

Stranded at Kilauea Volcano, visions appear to them in the form of life-size Bunraku puppets.

Cast

Mimosa........................................................Sarah

Lawrence Novioff......................................Howard

Janice Terukina..............................................Lani

Keone Young.................................................Sam

 

Understudies

 

Tom Donaldson........................................Howard

Yuria Kim..........................................Sarah & Lani

Jeret Ochi.....................................................Sam

 

 

LAVA Photos by Michael Lamont

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Lawrence Novikoff, Keone Young

Lawrence Novikoff, Mimosa, Keone Young

Keone Young, Lawrence Novikoff

 

 

LAVA is sponsored in part by the  City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department.

 

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