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Aloha Performing Arts Company artistic director Jerry Tracy brings his one man show, “Mark Twain Talks Story,” to the Aloha Theatre for one benefit performance only, at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 4, with proceeds going to help defray the expenses of APAC’s next mainstage production, “Big River, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” the Broadway musical by Roger Miller based on Twain’s masterpiece.
Tracy will share the humor and insight of Mark Twain as he recalls his visit to Hawaii, and specifically the Big Island in 1866, interlaced with comments on current events, local and nationwide. He shares stories of visiting with royalty in Honolulu, swimming at Kealakekua Bay, planting the Mark Twain Monkeypod Tree at Waiohinu, sailing on boats that used to carry residents from port to port along the coast, traveling from village to village on horseback, and visiting the “Great Volcano of Kilauea.”
The program will also feature a musical sneak preview of “Big River” with Dale Ross at the piano and some of the members of the orchestra of the February production.
Tickets are $12 and are available by phone at 322-1648, online at www.apachawaii.org, or at the box office beginning one hour prior to curtain. The Aloha Theatre Cafe will be open prior to the performance, and APAC will sell beer, wine, soda, and snacks from 2:00 to 2:30 p.m. and again at intermission.
For more information, call 322-9924.
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