![]() ![]() “Every night, I always try to give it my best, so that I don’t regret anything that I could have done better. “I have a standard, even if I feel sick, which I always try to meet or surpass,” he continued. If that character is not well portrayed, then the message may not get out.” ![]() “Basically, Mana leads the whole show, and I have to do my best every night because there are so many people out there who need to be touched. “Being Mana for the night show means a lot to me, not only the way I perform but how I actually have to step up whatever I do to meet the standards of that role,” Falevai said. In addition to his theater work, Falevai also does carving for the PCC and graphic design in the marketing department. Since then, he served a Spanish-speaking Latter-day Saint mission in Costa Rica graduated from BYU–Hawaii in 2014 with a BFA degree in sculpture and painting plus a minor in graphic arts and recently married Lauren Benson, a BYUH junior from Ventura, California, who is studying pre-nursing. Originally from Ha’ateiho, Tongatapu, Falevai first came to the Cultural Center in 2011. ![]() For example, as a boy Mana is called upon to perform as a Hawaiian he emerges in early adulthood as a Maori warrior meets his true love, but also has to prove himself as a Samoan fire walker and knife dancer, a Tahitian dancer and deal with the death of his father as a Fijian warrior during the show. The Hā storyline traces Mana’s life from birth, early development, romance, marriage, the death of his father and the birth of his own baby in a variety of Polynesian settings. Tane Falevai - the handsome and multi-talented Tongan who for the past four years has been playing the main character of Mana in the Polynesian Cultural Center’s world-famous evening production, Hā: Breath of Life - said the role inspires him in real life to be a better person as well as a new husband and eventually father of his own family. ![]()
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