{"id":930,"date":"2019-07-01T16:35:52","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T16:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagobroadcastingnetwork.com\/?p=930"},"modified":"2019-07-06T18:45:44","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T18:45:44","slug":"flower-of-hawaii-theater-review-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagobroadcastingnetwork.com\/flower-of-hawaii-theater-review-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"The Flower of Hawaii | Theater Review | Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/podomatic.com\/embed\/html5\/episode\/9451192?autoplay=false\" width=\"504\" height=\"208\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A Podcast Theater Review by Reno Lovison: The storyline of the jazz operetta &#8220;The Flower of Hawaii&#8221; written in 1931 by Paul Abraham and translated by Hersh Glagov is farcical, campy and largely inconsequential. Individual performances are what is important in this production, and this talented Chicago revival cast does not disappoint.<\/p>\n<p>An American premiere presented by \u201cFolks Operetta\u201d as part of their \u201cReclaimed Voices Series\u201d giving voice to Jewish composers and librettists who were persecuted, exiled or perished at the hands of the German Third Reich, features tenor Rodell Rosel as Prince Lilo-Taro (seen recently in <a href=\"http:\/\/chicagotheaterandarts.com\/2017\/12\/20\/turandot-is-a-grand-opera\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Turando at The Lyric Opera of Chicago<\/a> ) and Chicago soprano Marisa Buchheit (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marisa_Buchheit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">former Ms. Illinois 2014 <\/a>who recently earned her M.M. in opera from DePaul University) as Princess Laia is at Stage 773 on Belmont through July 14, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>You can read this entire review at <a href=\"http:\/\/chicagotheaterandarts.com\/2019\/07\/02\/flower-of-hawaii-blooms-in-chicago\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ChicagoTheaterandArts.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Podcast theater review of &#8220;The Flower of Hawaii&#8221; features tenor Rodel Rosel and soprano Marisa Buchheit. An American premiere presented by \u201cFolks Operetta\u201d as part of their \u201cReclaimed Voices Series at Stage 773 on Belmont through July 14, 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":931,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,289,6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chicago-entertainment","category-podcasts","category-chicago-theater","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagobroadcastingnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagobroadcastingnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagobroadcastingnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagobroadcastingnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagobroadcastingnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/chicagobroadcastingnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":949,"href":"https:\/\/chicagobroadcastingnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions\/949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagobroadcastingnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagobroadcastingnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagobroadcastingnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagobroadcastingnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}