Perform in English and Hoike in Hawaiian Language. Sit in English and Noho in Hawaiian Language. Release in English and Hookuu in Hawaiian Language. Dance in English and Haa in Hawaiian Language. Hide in English and Pee in Hawaiian Language. Memorize in English and Hoopaanaau in Hawaiian Language. Touch in English and Hoopa in Hawaiian Language. Sing in English and Mele in Hawaiian Language. Appear in English and Oili in Hawaiian Language. Dive in English and Luu in Hawaiian Language. Crawl in English and Kolo in Hawaiian Language. Dance in English and Hula in Hawaiian Language. Balance in English and Kaulike in Hawaiian Language. Bellow in English and Kuo in Hawaiian Language. Breathe in English and Hanu in Hawaiian Language. Extend in English and Hoonui in Hawaiian Language. Embrace in English and Puliki in Hawaiian Language. Flinch in English and Kuemi in Hawaiian Language. Sit in English and Noho in Hawaiian Language. Release in English and Hookuu in Hawaiian Language. Dance in English and Haa in Hawaiian Language.
Hide in English and Pee in Hawaiian Language. Memorize in English and Hoopaanaau in Hawaiian Language. Touch in English and Hoopa in Hawaiian Language. Sing in English and Mele in Hawaiian Language. Appear in English and Oili in Hawaiian Language. Dive in English and Luu in Hawaiian Language. Crawl in English and Kolo in Hawaiian Language. Dance in English and Hula in Hawaiian Language. Balance in English and Kaulike in Hawaiian Language. Bellow in English and Kuo in Hawaiian Language. Breathe in English and Hanu in Hawaiian Language. Extend in English and Hoonui in Hawaiian Language. Embrace in English and Puliki in Hawaiian Language. Flinch in English and Kuemi in Hawaiian Language.

Remembering Georgia Engel, UH Theatre Alumna

The news on Monday of the passing of beloved actress Georgia Engel strikes close to home for the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa’s theatre program and Kennedy Theatre. In the years shortly following the opening of Kennedy Theatre, Georgia Engel matriculated though the theatre program and shared the stage with many of Hawai‘i’s legacy performers, faculty and stage technicians. In addition to Engel, during Kennedy Theatre’s first decade Bette Midler appeared in several plays, Timothy Dalton (of “007” fame) appeared as a guest artist in Macbeth and Paul Winfield and Cyril Cusak appeared in Coriolanus. Local personalities, Dave Donnelly, Dick Fair, Wallace Chappel (later the director of the Honolulu Theatre for Youth), Edna Lee Leib, Edward Sakamoto, Joyce Maltby, Edward Langhans, Loyal Garner, Peter Lawrence, and Patricia Herman also shared the Kennedy stage in those early years.

Engel, later to gain national prominence as Georgette in “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” appeared on stage in the University of Hawaii Theatre program’s Kennedy Theatre productions from 1966 through 1969 in such classics as Camelot, Romeo and Juliet, Tartuffe, and Mary Stuart.

Georgia Engel in Elizabethan costume performing on stage in Romeo and Juliet, surrounded by male actors.
Georgia Engel in Kennedy Theatre’s Romeo and Juliet, 1967

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