PAC It Up! Monday, July 28, 2025

The PAC Calendar

August 8-10

Friday & Sat 7pm / Sun 1:30

Tickets Now On Sale!

RENT VIP Experience

There are 3 tickets: $15 Students / $25 General Admission / $60 VIP. The VIP is something special we have never offered before.

Here are the perks:

• An exclusive VIP Entrance
• VIP All Access Photo Badge
• Welcome Wine or Beer in the VIP only Sky Lounge
• Exclusive Reserved Seating section that only your Badge admits
• Intermission drink & appetizers in the Sky Lounge
• Exclusive Meet & Greet onstage with Cast after the show

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RENT Sizzle Reel

Do you like your theatre to have action, music, dance, personality and talent?

Check this out: RENT-reel

PUBLIC ART CONTEST Open to ALL!

LĪHU‘E – The Planning Department is inviting artists, designers, and architects from Hawai‘i and beyond to respond to a Request for Interest (RFI) for a public art monument to be located at the historic 1924 Battle of Hanapēpē, also known as the Hanapēpē Massacre site. DETAILS

FREE THEATRE WORKSHOP

As part of the visit, the RENT team will offer a FREE acting workshop to share and engage Kauaʻi’s community of storytellers and artists. Workshop takes place onstage.

Details below. REGISTER

ACTING WORKSHOP ON KAUAʻI

Sat, Aug 10, 12-2pm

Kauaʻi Performing Arts Center

Collaboration Between

Kauaʻi Community College Performing Arts Center & UH Mānoa Theatre and Dance Dept

Free & Open to the Community! All levels welcome. High School Ages and Up. Join UH Mānoa’s Asst Prof & Head of Acting, Joshua “Baba” Tavares, with UHM acting students for a workshop.

• Learn a Dance Combo from RENT
• Intro to Acting for TV & Film
• Talkback with the Cast & Director of RENT

No experience necessary. Just wear comfortable clothes and be ready to move and have fun. We are looking forward to sharing space with you!

REGISTER

Elsewhere on Our Garden Isle

The Kauai Ballet Academy, resident Dance Troupe of KCC, is seeking guys for our partnering class on Monday evenings in Kalaheo.. INFO

HCT After Dark Presents: 

Something Rotten!

Jul 24–Aug 10, Thu–Sun 7pm

Get ready to laugh out loud with HCT’s After Dark production of Something Rotten!  TICKETS

The Kauaʻi Concert Sinfonia opens KCAʻs 51st Concert Season with Maestro Tito Muñoz conducting Mahler Symphony No.1 "Titan." Tickets

Kauai's Cultural Champions

Ben Nause

Ben is the Choir Director and Music Teacher at Island School, and Collaborative Pianist at Wai‘oli Hui‘ia Church in Hanalei. He serves as Membership Chair of the Hawai‘i Chapter of the American Choral Directors Asso.

Ben received his Masters of Music in Vocal Performance from the Univ of Southern

Miss and his Bachelors in Music Education from Susquehanna Univ. Originally from Swoyersville, PA, he has worked on Kaua’i for 5 years with a

passion for performing and choral education.

Ben is the Collaborative Pianist for the Kaua’i Chorale, a 50+ member ensemble that has performed major choral works and pop classics. He has collaborated with several arts groups on the island—including Sing Out Kaua’i, Kaua’i Performing Arts Ctr, Hawaii Children's Theatre and Kaua’i Community Players—as soloist, accompanist, and/or musical director.

Ben has performed in Japan and New Zealand and volunteered at the 2024 World Choir Games in Auckland. At Island School, he also serves as the Enrichment Dept Chair.

Ben serves on the board of the Kaua‘i Concert Asso, an org dedicated to bringing world-class musicians and cultural events to the island. He currently serves as the Membership Chair of the Hawai‘i Chapter of the American Choral Directors Asso where he promotes and connects members of the org across all the islands.

Send your bio & photo to be included or to suggest a Champ!

The PAC will continue to book additional events between now and the end of the year, so keep checking our schedule on Facebook and the Official PAC Calendar

Plus Movies not listed but will plugged in as we go along. Remember, our PAC Movie Series is FREE, films from around the world.

Aug 8 -10 RENT

Aug 30 COUNTED OUT

Sep 6 Kauai Concert Asso TITAN

Sep19 Kauai Health Conference

Sep 21 Kauai Arts Songwriter's Concert

Sep 28 Seven Sons Concert

Oct 5 Kolohe Kai Concert

Oct 18 Kauai Concert Association

Oct 24-25 KCP ROCKY HORROR - Live

Oct 27-28 Honolulu Theatre for the Youth

Nov 1-3 Hawaii Intl Film Festival

Nov 8 Tumua

Nov 23 Kauai Concert Asso NOBUNTU

Nov 30 KCC Symphony Orchestra

Dec 7 Dance Fusion

Dec 9 Island School Winter Concert

Dec 12-13 Kauai Ballet NUTCRACKER

Dec 14 Jake Shimabukuro

Dec 19 KCC Jazz Ensemble & Wind Symph

Dec 20-21 Kauai Chorale

A 40' and a 20' container brought all the TV equipment, staging, lights and audio.

A crew of 12 took two days to unload and set-up..

PAC spaces were totally used not only for storage but as mini command stations.

PAC Dance Studio, a huge open space provided a great prep area.

Matrix of steel girders was assembled to hold 16 Video Wall sections & moving lights.

We erected a platform to hold the jib, long arm extended camera 30' over audience

Judge's platform was built between the 1st row in the House and the stage.

Jib is put together atop perch. 9 cameras were employed providing multiple angles.

Our light board fed theirs with DMX + Cat5 feeds, which operated from rear of House.

Gobos are cookie cutter design plates placed in the lights creating patterns.

This shot shows the video panels for the show logo. Changed thru out the show

The movers atop the girders that gave the show the feel similar to American Idol.

Audio controlled from a suite setup in the Music Studio.

In the Loading Bay, the video suite was setup for the director & crew to call show.

Green Room held the talent between acts. Above Tahitian dancers went over notes.

The Stage Left wing had the makeup girl, Camera guy with the harness, boom operator.

A Hazer was used to give the lights substance for their effects to reflect off.

Shot of the Camera guy with harness backstage in the wing.

Lights & sound controlled in the back of the house.

Judges talk with contestant from their perch in the house..

Host with all the acts onstage at the end of the evening.