When I was in the Cub Scouts I was in a "Walrus and the Carpenter" skit. I was the carpenter and memorized my lines but the boy who played the walrus failed to learn his so it didn't go very well. I was then able to use my carpenter costume for the next Halloween (but no one had any idea what the costume was supposed to be).
Nice! I hope you didn’t have to eat oysters for the role. I can’t see kids enjoying that too much.
No, I’m pretty sure we didn’t have to eat any oysters. I probably ate them for the first time in New Orleans many years later (unless I had some earlier when I was in Greece—ate several kinds of exotic seafood there).