The Honolulu Advertiser from Honolulu, Hawaii • 50

HONOLULU ADVERTISER Wednesday, October 1, 1975 E-5 hite House musical is due on Broadway during its subsequent tour around the country and is now slated for New York opening in November. "There have been a lot of changes," said Stevens, and those changes include the show's title. It is now called "Home Sweet Homer." Downstairs' kind of thing at all." Last year at this time Stevens was beating the drum for "Odyssey," the musical with book and lyrics by Erich Segal and music by Mitch Leigh. "Odyssey" has received mixed critical and public reactions about? "It's awafully hard to explain it in a few words," said Stevens. "The construction is very complex.

There is a very definite story line about servants in the White House and such, but it is not an 'Upstairs, Meanwhile over at KITV By TOM SHALES Wuhingtoa Pott Service WASHINGTON Kennedy Center chairman Roger L. Stevens and his New York partner Robert Whitehead have taken over production of Leonard Bernstein and Alan Jay Lerner's musical "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue" and will give the show its world premiere New Year's Eve in the Kennedy Center's opera house. Stevens made the announcement recently after firming up financial backing for the play, which deals with several generations of blacks working in the White House during eighth administrations, ranging from George Washington's to Theodore Roosevelt's. After four weeks in Washington, the show will trave to Phildelphia and Detroit, with a New York opening set for March, 1976 at the Mark Hellinger Theater. STEVENS AVOIDED discussing financial details but had said previously that $1 million incorporat capital was available to him from various sources and that the show will probably cost "about half that much" to produce.

The major investment, Stevens said, came from the Coca-Cola which sees the show's theme and timing as appropriate for the Bicentennial. Stevens declined to cite a figure for Coke's share of the project, and so did a company spokesman. But Stevens was willing to declare the musical "the most exciting project I have ever been involved in." He had just returned from a weekend in London and discussions with composer Bernstein, whose last major work, "Mass," opened the Center in September 1971. "I think this new score is the best thing Lenny's ever done," said Stevens. "I'm very high on this.

I think it will be the greatest musical of the decade." THE PLAY marks the first collaboration for Bernstein who is best known on Broadway for his "West Side Story" score, and Lerner, who is best known as lyricist of "My Fair Lady," soon to be given a 20th anniversary production. Lerner's most recent broadway lyrics were for "Coco" in 1969. He will write book and lyrics for the new show, to be directed by Frank Corsaro. Rehearsals begin in New York in November, Stevens said, with no parts cast as yet. Initial plans for a White House musical were made public a full year ago.

It was "pencilled in" to the Kennedy Center schedule "six months ago," Stevens said, and his involvement came later. "The Kennedy Center has absolutely nothing 'whatsoever to do with this," said Stevens. "This is a personal venture on my part." Stevens said the show was booked like any other production to play the center and under similar terms. THE FACT that he draws no salary as Center chairman means he is "at liberty to do somethings on my own," Stevens said. Stevens and Bernstein have also stressed that the show does not deal in any way with the current political scene and that nothing in it can be related to Watergate.

What is it all THE MISTAKES kept compounding themselves. A well-intentioned series on Hawaii's poor started off somewhat tastelessly with an interview of a hobo jester. One gripping live report came to us from the nearby tennis courts, and Rockwell was stationed on a on our mann By BILL MANN Advertiser Special Writer Word inside and outside KITV has it that the station disbanded its competent news team recently to go with a more "ethnic" lineup. It now appears that Channel 4 is certan to lose at least one race with its Newscenter brainchild the one for the ratings. The show is an embarrassment from any perspective you want to view it as a newscast, as entertainment, or even technically.

Newscenter has been on for about three weeks now, and if anything, the patient has moved from the serious list to critical. COMPETENT PROS like Don Rockwell and Warren Moran (who once anchored CBS' flagship WCBS) were dumped for an all-new lineup that, the past few weeks, has looked more like the student body of the Famous Broadcasters' School than a serious news team. Co-anchormen Mason Altiery and Gene Okamoto work together at best tentatively; their transitions are almost inevitably awkward and never approach seam-lessness. Okamoto's delivery needs much work before it is even satisfactory, and ex-politico Altiery's broadcast persona is that of a loser in an all-night card game; the man looks tired. Things aren't much better technically, with the flimsy set looking as if an errant tennis ball from across the street would do it in.

One night there was bad or no audio, another evening, rock music came through the line on studio shots. Background clocks were injudicously positioned, and one night the crucial initial Patty Hearst video feed was lost. 'Kanikapila 9 tickets i darkened court when the adjacent one was still sunny he looked like a shadow of his former self, one could say. Sportscaster Paul Guanzon, meanwhile, who may well have been sent over by Snelling and Snelling, appears uneasy and acutely out of place on camera. But Newscenter's most obvious Achilles' Heel is the scheduling of a sophomoric vignette called "Emme's Notebook," featuring one Em me Tomimbang, whom we last saw handing out free Colgate-Palmolive products on the dialing for dollars movie (where she looked much more in place).

KITV's Newscenter, alas, has a reach far in excess of its potential grasp. Its concept is opaquely cloying and its execution largely inept. It's not even that funny. lw fW i Tickets for "Kanikapila 1975," a festival of Hawaiian music featuring young Island talent, are $3 for adults, $1.50 for University of Hawaii students and $1 for children under 12. The events will be held at 7 p.m.

Oct. 11 and 12 at Andrews Outdoor Theatre on the Manoa campus. Tickets can be bought in advance at the House of Music at Ala Moana Center, Pearlridge Music, Kahala Music, Holiday Mart in Kailua, the GEM record departments at Ward Avenue, Kapalama and Waipahu, and at the University's Campus Center. Organized by Peter Moon of the Sunday Manoa, the concert will feature the Sunday Manoa, a Waimanalo-area group known as Iron Mango (consisting of Cyril Pahi-nui, Bla Pahinui, Randy Lorenzo and guest artist Moon), Robert Cazimero's Wky is Tareytoim Ibettten? kEtkhmji- UNIVERSITY -Ti 1 PHARMACY I I yKSA rySk 1 Univ. Avr ft King I Charcoal is why.

Charcoal filtration is used to freshen air, to make water and other beverages taste better. It does something for cigarette smoke, too. TAREYTON has two filters- a white tip on the outside, activated charcoal on the inside. Like other filters they reduce tar and nicotine. But the charcoal does more.

It balances, "Na Kamalero Luilehua" hula troupe, the 77-mem-ber Kamehameha Schools Concert Glee Clubs, Kaala, Palani Vaughan, and mistress of ceremonies Leo Anderson. smooths gives you a taste no plain white filter can match. Warning: The Surgeon General Has Determined That Cigarette Smoking Is Dangerous to Your Health. King Size 20 mg. "iar.

1.3 tug nicotine; 100 mm 19 mg. "tar. 1.3 mg. nicotine: av. per cigarette.

FTC Report Apul 75. Wednesday evening TV at a glance 4S $30 :30 I MANILA'S BIGGEST BOXOFFICE HIT! Ill in the toy mnyumei I TtuFiritniipinoMevutoB shown in tuuio IV John Rowles, singing of yesterday and tomorrow, Am OPENS OCT. 3rd II of love and life, the good times and il Ivenlng Performances Only jf the bad times the great John Rowles show, jun I in the elegance of the beautiful MonarchRoom JM Hu Appearing in the Monarch Room, ji Uc A 1 Royal Hawaiian Hotel, 9:00 P.M. (dinner Jrv 11 show) and 11:00 P.M. Tuesday-Saturday; fZ- II rt tf 11 9:00 P.M.

Sunday. Call 923-7311. lsl I I (ftli 1 Validated parking. VI Itfst IT Royal Hawaiian Hotel f( if Sheraton hotels 4 motor nns worldwide 1 ll 'lllplne Mayor In hlimeit dramatic rale III I yf ItfcHEUNOAMBOA.IDWICAICU.OINDO VI I 1 KINANDO, I0SANNA ORTIZ, ANITA UNDA 1 ii 1 1 hA Dubb'd nt'nwtonal iWnm KHON-TVUnm KITVOfflP KOMBTVQBB KHET-TVfflOU KIKU-TVO MIKE DOUGLAS (3:00) THATGIRL OILLIOAN'S ISLAND IN-SERVICE SEMINAR MERVORIFPIN HAPPY DAYS COMER PYLE MISJIER ROGERS BRADY BUNCH HOGAN'S HEROES SESAME STREET NEWS I DREAM OP JEANNIE "TIME OP APOLLO" NEWS, 3:53. NEWS NEWS ELECTRIC COMPANY ASAHINEWS.

HOBBY OUESTCORNER CHICOBTHE MAN WELCOME BACK. TONY ORLANDO AND CONSUMER SURVIVAL KOTTER PAWN KIT DIAMOND EYE "FAMILY HONOR" GHOST MRS. MUIR HAWAII NOW KAMEN RIOER BOBBY VINTON SHOW MISSION IMPOSSIBLE BOOK BEAT ONLYilOHTEEN BARETTA FEELINGGOOO BESTMHIT PARAOB CNH0M THE NATURALISTS JOE FORRESTER STARSKYft HUTCH WOMAN THE LORD OKUBO NCWf YOOA NEWS NEWS KATE McSHANE LICENSE FOR. THE HEARTLESS TONIOHTSHOW NIGHT GALLERY "THE SEX SYMBOL" THE UNTOUCHABLES "THE DIRTY DOZEN" EVENINGNEWS (12:30) 0300 "MARTY" for doytim litHng and mor dvtaili about tonight's programs, tee Sunday! Aloha TV mogazins, Hawaii'i mast eomptM Mhvision guida. One fact you're sure of: THC FINANCIAL gives your PASSBOOK THRIFT ACCOUNT the finest return your money can earn! THC Financial Corp.

on "The Financial Comer of the Pacific" Main Office at Bishop and King Streets Phone 521-2361 Other convenient offices at Kapiolani, Pearlridge, Waipahu, Hilo, Kahului and All offices open Mon. Fri. Hawaii residents only b--. a annum HUH iisiilly Oslenfls? Bookings ore heavy. Please reserve your date many months in advance.

GQSSQBa mm WINATRIP? Trip to Hong Kong and other terrific prizes. Plus, showing of Calvin Klein's fall fashions for men and women. Benefit by World Wings I nt'l. fororthopedically handicapped and mentally retarded. $1 0 for the lunch and show, Sat.

Oct. 11 at a major hotel. For tickets: Mrs. Hoshide, 395-6889, Mrs. Miyamoto 395-3231 iitffcAfflraxim 1 I Do rPLTn vxnA minilikln fne itvitniini(u Yrt mt! First Hawaiian Bank ei i ilia la tivauauic iui cuitiiiiuiuiijr ftiuupo.

Q. See your nearest bVgnch of First Hawaiian..