‘Hawaii Five-0’ star tapped for ‘The King and I’ ADVERTISING ‘Hawaii Five-0’ star tapped for ‘The King and I’ NEW YORK (AP) — Broadway’s next king has been awfully busy chasing bad guys on the streets of Honolulu. Daniel Dae
‘Hawaii Five-0’ star tapped for ‘The King and I’
NEW YORK (AP) — Broadway’s next king has been awfully busy chasing bad guys on the streets of Honolulu.
Daniel Dae Kim, who plays a detective on the TV series “Hawaii Five-0,” takes over in May as the King of Siam in the blissful Lincoln Center Theater revival of “The King and I,” a role he calls “maybe the greatest role for an Asian male in theater.”
Kim, who graduated from New York University with a master’s degree in acting and cut his teeth in off-Broadway shows, said he’s been “looking for a way to get back” to the New York stage but instead found himself in Hawaii doing TV for the 12 past years.
The king, who is both imposing and romantic, will mark Kim’s Broadway debut, but he’s played the same monarch before, at London’s world-renowned Royal Albert Hall in 2009.
Born in Busan, South Korea, and raised in New York and Pennsylvania, Kim will step into a role made famous by Yul Brynner, who was king for more than 4,600 performances. Kim saw the movie version, but the actor hopes to leave his own imprint.
New plan aims to improve monk seal management
LIHUE, Kauai (AP) — Federal scientists have released the final version of a plan to manage the monk seal population in the Hawaiian Islands.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released the plan Friday, which is an offshoot of a 2007 recovery plan for the Hawaiian monk seal.
The newly released Main Hawaiian Islands Monk Seal Management Plan outlines strategies for addressing the four main challenges affecting the recovery and management of the monk seal population. The challenges include infectious disease, human-seal interactions, habitat threats and human dimensions.
The plan offers six strategies to address the challenges, which include engaging the community, responding to reported seal incidents and building program capacity.
Judge rules on stream water division permits
HONOLULU (AP) — An Oahu judge invalidated a state practice of issuing permits to Alexander &Baldwin to divert millions of gallons of irrigation water daily from streams for its Maui sugar operations.
Judge Rhonda Nishimura ruled Jan. 8 that the state Department of Land and Natural Resources’ use of the one-year revocable permits violated state law and was only meant to be temporary. The permits have been extended annually from 2001-14 without an official environmental review.
The ruling applies to streams and tributaries from Nahiku to Huelo. Alexander &Baldwin has drawn from the waterways to irrigate 36,000 acres of sugar cane land and provide water to the county for 36,000 residents and farmers.
Attorney Summer Sylva, who represented the plaintiffs in the case, said the judge could take steps to halt the diversions, which county officials estimated at between 40 million and 137 million gallons a day.
