WOOD CRAFT 2009: Posted 0130

WOOD CRAFT

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HST, Apr 25, 2009 OH MAMMA!: The national tour of “Mamma Mia!” opens here May 12 and members of the cast are known for raising funds for charity. Opening night is a benefit for the Women’s Cancer Center at Kapiolani Medical Center, with VIP seating at the Blaisdell Concert Hall at 7:30 p.m. A post-show cast party follows at Romano’s Macaroni Grill. The post-show party is sold out but there are tickets for the opening-night show. Party organizers are hoping Pierce Brosnan, who has a home on Kauai and who starred in the movie version of “Mamma Mia!” will make an appearance opening night. Lynne Wooddell and Kim Gennaula of Kapiolani made sure a letter was sent to Brosnan asking for his support. He lost his first wife to ovarian cancer, which is one of the major diseases the hospital fights and treats. Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS was the beneficiary of a fundraiser last week in LA at which the “Mamma Mia!” cast members performed. Queen Latifah was there … BUMMER: Bum sports news about “Sunday Night Football” TV broadcaster John Madden throwing in the towel and hanging up his microphone. He and his co-broadcaster Al Michaels were at the top of the heap when it came to broadcasting NFL games. (Michaels broadcast Hawaii Islanders games and other sports here in the late 1960s.) Besides having the knowledge of Super Bowl winning head coach, which he was at Oakland in ’79, Madden had a flair for comedy and would always come up with funny stuff … Speaking of funny stuff, I like Wood Craft appearing next to the funnies in the Star-Bulletin’s handy, dandy tabloid format. My boyhood pals Tim Smythe, Hank McKeague and Frank “Steiny” Steinmiller, who were also in my wedding party years ago, always described me as “funny.” But somehow, I don’t think they meant it in a comedic way … Ben Wood, who sold the Star-Bulletin on Honolulu streets in World War II, writes of people, places and things Saturdays. E-mail him at . OH MAMMA!: The national tour of “Mamma Mia!” opens here May 12 and members of the cast are known for raising funds for charity. Opening night is a benefit for the Women’s Cancer Center at Kapiolani Medical Center, with VIP seating at the Blaisdell Concert Hall at 7:30 p.m. A post-show cast party follows at Romano’s Macaroni Grill. The post-show party is sold out but there are tickets for the opening-night show. Party organizers are hoping Pierce Brosnan, who has a home on Kauai and who starred in the movie version of “Mamma Mia!” will make an appearance opening night. Lynne Wooddell and Kim Gennaula of Kapiolani made sure a letter was sent to Brosnan asking for his support. He lost his first wife to ovarian cancer, which is one of the major diseases the hospital fights and treats. Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS was the beneficiary of a fundraiser last week in LA at which the “Mamma Mia!” cast members performed. Queen Latifah was there … BUMMER: Bum sports news about “Sunday Night Football” TV broadcaster John Madden throwing in the towel and hanging up his microphone. He and his co-broadcaster Al Michaels were at the top of the heap when it came to broadcasting NFL games. (Michaels broadcast Hawaii Islanders games and other sports here in the late 1960s.) Besides having the knowledge of Super Bowl winning head coach, which he was at Oakland in ’79, Madden had a flair for comedy and would always come up with funny stuff … Speaking of funny stuff, I like Wood Craft appearing next to the funnies in the Star-Bulletin’s handy, dandy tabloid format. My boyhood pals Tim Smythe, Hank McKeague and Frank “Steiny” Steinmiller, who were also in my wedding party years ago, always described me as “funny.” But somehow, I don’t think they meant it in a comedic way …

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