{"id":57130,"date":"2001-04-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-04-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/96f682f8-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2001-04-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-04-10T00:00:00","slug":"96f68309-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/96f68309-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"UOG held an SRO musical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Guam&#8217;s spring musical, &#8220;I Lidendenduhendes&#8221; (The Legend of the Little People) was a resounding success, according to Saipan resident Katharyn Tuten-Puckett.<\/p>\n<p>An original script, memorable music, and enthusiastic, well rehearsed performers all contributed to an exciting theatrical experience. As an advisor to the Pacific Storytelling Center (UOG Education Department), Ms. Tuten-Puckett attended the UOG Endowment Foundation&#8217;s fundraising dinner performance held April 5 at the university campus.<\/p>\n<p>She enjoyed the play so much that she assisted with three additional performances over the weekend. &#8220;It was exciting to watch forty talented youngsters work with adult actors to bring Chamorro culture to life,&#8221; said Ms. Tuten-Puckett.<\/p>\n<p>She is hopeful that the University of Guam will make this type of activity an annual event.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I Lidendenduhendes&#8221; was adapted from a play written by Chamorro Language Instructor Peter Onedera. Benjie Diloa was the director and choreographer while Erwin Estaura provided the original score and musical direction.<\/p>\n<p>Flora Baza Quan, Executive Director of the Guam Endowment Foundation Office, was the overall chairperson of the planning committee and wrote some of the Chamorro lyrics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Guam&#8217;s spring musical, &#8220;I Lidendenduhendes&#8221; (The Legend of the Little People) was a resounding success, according to Saipan resident Katharyn Tuten-Puckett. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}