More Information About Teahouse of the August Moon

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Description

Teahouse of the August Moon was hailed as one of the funniest, smartest, most timely pieces of theatre ever created when it first ran on Broadway in 1953. Broadway responded by awarding "Teahouse" every major theatre award, including five Tonys (including Best Play), the N.Y. Drama Critics' Award, The Donaldson Award, The Theatre Club Award, The Aegis Theatre Club Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. The show has proven, fifty years later, that it is also TIMELESS. "Teahouse" is emphatically not a play about War or Race or Politics. It is a reminder that people the world over are all basically the same.

An Army of Occupation officer is stationed in a remote town in Okinawa to teach Democracy to the natives. His Colonel is breathing down his neck to insure the strict enforcement of the Manual of Occupation. But the young officer has not prepared himself for the ingenious charm of the people. Within a matter of days he finds himself the owner of a Grade A geisha girl; the materials sent him for the construction of a school are being used to build a teahouse and he himself, in an effort to improve the economy of the village, has taken to selling the principal product, potato brandy, to all the surrounding Army and Navy Officers' clubs. The gala opening of the teahouse is, of course, the moment chosen by the Colonel to make his inspection of the village, and the ensuing eruption is volcanic.

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