Kumu Kahua Theatre Announces The Opening Of Sachiko And Dom Magwili’s, A Jive Bomber’s Christmas

“Want people together, right? Want community spirit? Then we gotta throw a roo-too-toolioo-do Christmas dance with all the trimmings!”

Honolulu, Hawai?i: A Jive Bomber’s Christmas opens November 10th and plays for five weeks at Kumu Kahua Theatre.

It’s Christmas, 1943, but nobody feels like celebrating. The world is at war and the soldiers of the 442nd Battalion are fighting in Europe, while at home, Japanese Americans are being illegally detained in internment camps. A group of kids, raised on jazz and jive, social clubs and swing dancing, decide to raise the camp’s spirits—with a Christmas show.

Filled with song and dance, laughter and warmth, A Jive Bomber’s Christmas arrives at Kumu Kahua just in time for the holidays.

First time Kumu Kahua Director, Stephanie Conching, directs the play.  The cast includes Chevy Martinez, Regina Lozano, Daren Kimura, Jessica Ka'uhane, Jarod Bailon, Thanh Apostolides, Christianne Michel, Royce Okazaki, Michael Malone, Henry Williams, Ron Encarnacion, Jenny Kimura, Nahe Bailon and Maka Bailon.

Performance Dates of A Jive Bomber’s Christmas by Sachiko and Dom Magwili (19 shows)
Thursday, Friday & Saturday 8pm: November 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, 25, 26; December 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 2011

Sundays 2pm: November 13, 20, 27; December 4, 11, 2011

(No show Thursday, November 24, because of Thanksgiving)

Tickets are on sale now and prices range from $5 to $20.  Tickets may be purchased with a credit card by calling 536-4441, or by visiting the Kumu Kahua Box Office at 46 Merchant Street from 11am to 3pm Monday through Friday.  For more information about this and other productions, or to purchase tickets online, visit www. Kumu Kahua.org.

Kumu Kahua Theatre is an intimate, air-conditioned 100-seat performance space and individual performances do sell out.  Patrons are strongly advised to purchase tickets in advance.

Kumu Kahua productions are made possible with support from the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, celebrating more than thirty years of culture and the arts in Hawai‘i, and the National Endowment for the Arts; The Annenberg Foundation; Paid for in part by the taxpayers of the City & County of Honolulu; the Mayor’s Office of Culture and the Arts; and Foundations, Businesses and Patrons.