1953 The Teahouse Of The August Moon and 39 similar items

Up for bid is the Playbill and one ticket stub from the April 30th, 1955 performance of the broadway show The Teahouse Of The August Moon at the Martin Beck Theatre. The Teahouse of the August Moon is a 1953 play written by John Patrick adapted from the 1951 novel by Vern Sneider. The play was later adapted for film in 1956, and the 1970 Broadway musical Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen. The play opened on Broadway in October 1953. It was a Broadway hit, running for 1,027 performances and winning awards including the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play of the Year, the Pulitzer Prize in Drama, and the Tony Award. The play, well regarded for several decades, came to seem old-fashioned with increased understanding and sensitivity of racial issues. Play was a comedy satirizes the U.S. occupation and Americanization of the island of Okinawa following the end of World War II in 1945. The portrayals of the Okinawa characters in the play were seen as offensive, and the generational humor began to lose its impact in the 1970s. Starring John Forsythe and Eli Wallach