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 Lisa Furugen began teaching piano at the age of 12 and voice at the age of 16. Lisa moved to Hawaii in 1981 where she taught voice and piano and had nearly 150 students, both private and group. She was also very active in the theatre community serving as director, musical director and all other aspects of production work. She played an intricate part of several beauty pageants and talent competitions as talent coordinator and adjudicator. Lisa was also on the ground level of the popular High School Talent Search, “Brown Bags to Stardom.” Lisa is most known for her Hawaiian performance group, “The Rising Generation” which consisted of 50+ kids who sang and danced their way into the hearts of schools, malls, TV, and radio. They recorded the well remembered song “Color the World with Love” which was dedicated to the Oklahoma bombing victims and the Kobe, Japan earthquake victims in 1995. Aside from directing, Lisa has played such roles as Dolly Levi in “Hello Dolly”, Katishaw in “The Mikado”, Mrs. Potts in “Beauty and the Beast”, and Lady Larkin in “Once Upon A Mattress.” Lisa has directed productions such as “Sound of Music”, “South Pacific”, “Camelot”, “Cinderella", "Oliver”, “Finian’s Rainbow”, “1776”, “Forever Plaid”, “Copacabana”, "Annie", and “Wizard of Oz.” Lisa teaches voice and will be starting Black Light Theatre here in Idyllwild in the near future. |