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Families Shine in APAC's "My Son Pinocchio"
It's a family affair at the Aloha Theatre for Aloha Performing Arts Company's next production. Real life father and son Bryan and Tanner Riley (Pictured at Left) are starring as stage father and son Geppetto and Pinocchio in Disney's "My Son Pinocchio." This new show, with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and book by David I. Stern, explores the classic children's tale from Geppetto's viewpoint. Keaton, Tanner's younger brother, is also in the show as one of the child soloists in the big production number "Toys." The Blue Fairy, who serves as a sort of narrator of the show, is played by Tiffany Kutsunai, who is also the assistant director. Her brother, Jonathan, and her mother, Jeannie, are also in the show. Jonathan plays the inventor Buonragazzo, whose machine makes perfect children, and Jeannie is in the chorus as a parent. Other family units involved in the project are: Christy and Nicole Aragon; Kristy, Miel and Maya Krauss; Zach and Ariana Kaneshiro; Kiani and Isaac Manju; Ashlee and Heather Bartlett; and Max Troberg and his siblings Kea and Pohaku Kauka.
