by Wayne Harada
Honolulu Advertiser
May 31, 2000

Paradise Alley: Kevin McCollum, former Honolulan and co-producer of the hit Broadway musical "Rent," is in town. Today, he’s expected to formally announce an August run of the Tony- and Pulitzer Award-winner. He jetted in from the Mainland over the weekend, took performers Marcy Harriell and Chad Richardson from the show, plus national marketing director Laura Matalon, to the Tihati-produced show at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel. When la‘au show host Esmond Chung introduced his female vocalist Cathy Foy, McCollum literally sat up; he and Foy played brother and sister in the then-Honolulu Community Theatre in "Our Town" in the mid-1970s. Natch, the two talked old times following the show ...