Saigon has fallen, and two Vietnamese refugees meet in an Arkansas relocation camp before setting out on a rip-roaring road trip across America. Qui Nguyen tells the hilarious and only slightly not-true version of how his parents met and built a life for themselves in a new land.
Recorded before a live audience at the UCLA James Bridges Theater in February 2020.
Original Music by Shane Rettig
Director: Tim Dang
Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg
Will Dao as Nhan and Khue
Desiree Mee Jung as Huong, Translator and Redneck Biker
Greg Watanabe as Playwright, Bobby, Giai, Hippie Dude and Captain Chambers
Paul Yen as Quang
Jeena Yi as Tong, Thu, and American Girl
Associate Artistic Director: Anna Lyse Erikson
Recording Engineer and Sound Designer: Mark Holden.for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood
Senior Radio Producer: Ronn Lipkin
Foley Artist: Jeff Gardner
Production Manager: Erica R. Christensen
Mixing Engineer: Charles Carroll
Editor: Mitchell Lindskoog
C.J. Cruz|California|Derrick Kemp|Genki Hall|Jr.|Kenichi Zenimura – known as “Zeni” – loved baseball. As a young man in the 1920s he developed a Nisei baseball league in Fresno|Rosie Narasaki|Tristan Pravong|West Hollywood|West Hollywood
Senior Radio Producer: Ronn Lipkin
Foley Artist: Stacey Martinez
Special thanks to Bill Staples|a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.
Recorded at The Invisible Studios|and Paul Yen.
Senior Producer: Anna Lyse Erikson
Prepared for audio by Mark Holden
Recording Engineer and Editor: Neil Wogenson
Mixing Engineer: Charles Carroll
Designed by Mark Holden and Charles Carroll for The Invisible Studios|and later organized barnstorming tours that brought the likes of Babe Ruth to the West Coast and Japan. And despite being sent to a Japanese-American internment camp in Arizona during World War II|and the Nisei Baseball Research Project for sharing their research and expertise to inspire and accurately depict the historical events of this project.|baseball would be the key to improving the lives of his fellow detainees.
This play is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program|he knew that somehow|in October 2024.
Directed by Anna Lyse Erikson
Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recording|starring:
Keiko Agena as Kiyoko Zenimura
Michael Sun Lee as Kenichi Zenimura (Zeni)
John Miyasaki as Hiro Tanaka and others
Rob Nagle as Coach Hank and others
Thomas Winter as Harvey Zenimura
Additional voices by Tristan Chung
