Teahouse of the August Moon ~1957

Teahouse of the August Moon About 1957, my brother Ken and I were asked to be in the Wichita University production of the Teahouse of the August Moon. That was my first time as an actor. I was asked to learn one line in Japanese but couldn't do it, so my role was to bring the live goat on stage by the jeep.  The women were Japanese or Japanese-Americans and they may have had lines in Japanese.  The older guy was Chinese and was asked to harangue the driver in Chinese.  No concern that the audience would have cared.

Ken and I worked several performances, maybe a week's worth of shows.  There was a woman who was our chaperone and we were well taken care of except we stayed extremely late one night; never knew the reason.