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\u200b \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Several nights ago, a horrible excuse for a sack of meat, let alone a human, won a presidential primary thanks to extreme racist beliefs. He supports banning all people with a certain religious and ethnic background from entering the USA, and thinks we should register and track those already in the country. He, and every other leading Republican, thinks it\u2019s okay to have a \u2018total and complete ban\u2019 on millions of people. And, he said he might have supported Japanese internment camps during World War II, obviously, because it fits well with everything else he supports.<\/div>\n
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The most disturbing part is how many people agree with him, with prejudice too strong to be countered with reason and humanity. Or maybe they forget or never even were told about the horror of Japanese internment. They probably don\u2019t know that someone we all love grew up in one of the camps: George Takei. Aghast that the lessons our country was supposed to have learned from this have been forgotten, Takei gathered a few of his talented friends and helped inspire the new musical \u201cAllegiance\u201d, which ends its Broadway run on Sunday.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a shame that it\u2019s closing, but that speaks more to how business goes in the winter for shows that aren\u2019t behemoths more than the show\u2019s quality. Plus, it\u2019s upsetting as hell to spend time with the issues concerned. Many tourists don\u2019t want to spend their one Broadway show slot crying their eyes out, and others would rather turn a blind eye to our past horrors. I saw \u201cAllegiance\u201d just for Takei and costar Lea Salonga, the superb and the beloved, but had low expectations after reading a few online reviews bemoaning the lackluster score.<\/p>\n

While it\u2019s true that the score might not add new standards to the cabaret circuit, it didn\u2019t matter. It was basic but solid, with pleasant melodies and good lyrics. As a whole, everything worked and I didn\u2019t roll my eyes violently even once, which is a rare thing with new musicals nowadays. (\u201cBend It Like Beckham\u201d almost rendered me blind. I can\u2019t even talk about it.) More importantly, this show was one of the most moving and heartbreaking I\u2019ve ever seen. Although a completely different vibe from \u201cSpring Awakening\u201d, it reminded me of it, with its similar theme of how ignorance and refusing to treat others with humanity can destroy generations.<\/p>\n

\u201cAllegiance\u201d is inspired by Takei\u2019s own experience in the camps, which repeatedly acts like a gut punch, when you realize not only did this happen to hundreds of thousands of people, but to someone you feel like you know, someone who is standing right in front of you. I wonder how republicans would feel if they saw this. I mean it shouldn\u2019t take knowing certain people personally or being able to point to them to make you see them as human, but as we learned from all the republicans who only came around to accepting gays as people when it was their own relative &c., a lot of people have trouble empathizing unless they\u2019re forced to in that way. A lot of people are terrible!<\/p>\n

The show begins with Takei as elderly Sam Kimura, WWII veteran, putting on his uniform to commemorate Pearl Harbor Day. He\u2019s interrupted by a woman informing him that his older sister, Kei, has died. This woman, the executor of Kei\u2019s will, has a package for Sam, who starts cursing the heavens and his long-estranged sister, angry that she couldn\u2019t just leave him in peace. Uh, damn son! What happened to make you so mad at your sister and so wounded? Let\u2019s find out!<\/p>\n

After this present-day prologue, the core of the show starts, with young Sam (played by Telly Leung) and Kei (Lea Salonga) as young adults just before the war really hits America. They are Japanese Americans, born in the USA after their father Tatsuo (Christopheren Nomura) and now-deceased mother immigrated. The family, along with grandfather Ojii-san (played by Takei) who was born in Japan and speaks little English, lives in California where they own and run a successful farm. Tatsuo is hard on his son, and Sammy thinks his father\u2019s disappointment and unreachable standards stem from his mother having died during childbirth. Sammy thinks his father blames him.<\/p>\n

The family, well liked and respected in their town, soon has its world turned upside down when the USA is attacked at Pearl Harbor and the insane government decides to send everyone in the country with Japanese ancestry to the camps. Despite being born there and\/or being legal citizens, the whole family is sent to Heart Mountain camp, with their farm, house, and all property seized, with no reimbursement. It\u2019s awful, to say the least. Military personnel with power issues are running things at the camp. There\u2019s no clean water, no medicine, no privacy, and no freedom. Sure the writers took some dramatic liberties elaborating on reality, but still, even without the embellishments it’s still a mfing hellish internment camp.<\/p>\n

Sammy is a young idealist who refuses to complain about or fight against his circumstances, who wants desperately to be a standup, respectable American, and a model Japanese-American man. But this drive to please his country\u2019s government means he betrays his family\u2019s and his people\u2019s dignity. Instead of exercising civil disobedience or active insubordination with other inmates like his sister\u2019s new boyfriend Frank, Sammy not only obeys but tries to get everyone else to conform as well, thinking that it\u2019s for their own good in the long run. He makes friends with the head of the Japanese American Citizens League, Masaoka (Greg Watanabe), the ineffectual official who doesn\u2019t fight hard enough, or at all, to stop the internment. Sammy helps him by identifying disloyal citizens, like Frank, who refuses to cooperate and refuses to join the army, burning his draft card. To be fair, it seems like a pretty dick move to draft people who you threw in internment camps, so we can\u2019t fault Frank at all. But Sammy does, big time.<\/p>\n

Despite being so troublesome in this regard, Sammy is pretty likeable due to Telly Leung\u2019s portrayal. Telly, who can rival Jonathan Groff with how much he spits while singing, shows you that Sammy is not a traitor to any group but is trying to figure out the right path to take in a time when nothing was done right. He\u2019s young, he\u2019s na\u00efve, and he\u2019s trying to do the best he can by people who will never agree. While in the camp, he falls in love with the white nurse on campus, Hannah, played by Katie Rose Clarke. I heavily disliked her in \u2018The Light in the Piazza\u2019 when she took over for Kelli O\u2019Hara, but that role is nigh impossible to nail down properly. Here, Katie is extremely likeable and well used.<\/p>\n

Spoilies for my memory: Before all that goes down, Sammy joins the army and becomes a poster child for the government\u2019s propaganda campaign on how successful the camps are and how some Japanese can be exemplary Americans. He promised nurse Hannah that he would come back to marry her \u2013 who would have thought he\u2019d survive and she wouldn\u2019t. His father, meanwhile, refuses to answer a bogus loyalty questionnaire in the manner the government wants, and is sent to prison. Kei gets preggers by Frank and they get married. Ojii-san, Takei\u2019s wonderfully stereotypically grandfather character, full of wisdom and optimism, dies in the garden that he somehow managed to grow in their desolate mountain camp. It\u2019s all pretty depressing stuff, one right after the other, all while Sammy is deep in the trenches with no idea.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Oh the audience is legit sobbing during all of this. I started crying as soon as I saw Lea Salonga like 5 feet in front of me (front row rush seats what what) and did not stop. Lea\u2019s Kei gets the greatest song in the show, \u201cHigher\u201d, which is reprised several times. She sings about how as a little girl, she lived carefree, playing on her swingset with her mother. Then after her mother\u2019s death, Kei had to be mother to Sammy and forget about being a child herself, but she loved her brother so much that she didn\u2019t care. She helped him to always swing and fly and dream \u2018higher\u2019 to the detriment of her own growth, and she now decides to maybe start living her life more like she did before. It\u2019s her \u201cIma get mine\u201d song, pretty much, but beautiful and touching.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Sammy is becoming a huge media star, this poster child for the war and all the decisions the government made, and he ends up on the cover of Life magazine. Tatsuo, in that horrible prison where he\u2019s treated abominably, is released by the government just because of his son\u2019s work. Although we were led to think Tatsuo was always disappointed in his son, he was just a tough old man but loved his son. He\u2019s so proud of his soldier son even though they disagree, and he was overjoyed to see him on the magazine cover.<\/p>\n

But when Sammy returns, everything has changed. The camps have been emptied, and he finds that his sister has her own family. When Sammy sees, after being through war, that his sister married the man he hates for refusing to defend America and that his father has accepted Frank into the family, he storms off \u2013 for good. That was the last time he saw any of them. The rift we heard about in the prologue has been that long, like 60 years. Insanity.<\/p>\n

We cut back to present day, and old-man Sam (Takei) opens the package the executor left him. It\u2019s that copy of Life magazine with him on the cover that his father and then his sister saved and cherished for all those years because they always loved him and were proud of him. So this is when everyone in the audience \u2013 EVERYONE \u2013 started sobbing if they hadn\u2019t already been. Most people were like me and were just crying the whole time. But at this point the stragglers joined in.<\/p>\n

Sam goes to Kei\u2019s funeral to pay his respects and get some sort of closure. Afterwards, the executor walks over to him to see how he is. They share a few words before she mentions her mother \u2013 Kei. This is Hannah, Kei\u2019s daughter whom Sammy met just once when she was a baby. They named her after Sammy\u2019s nurse girlfriend, after she died saving Frank\u2019s life. I mean. It may seem overwrought but it all worked so magnificently. Oh this is when the whole audience continued crying but much more violently and breathlessly, more like wailing. It was rough. And amazing. I\u2019ve never been a part of an audience that was so emotionally invested and it was really special.<\/p>\n

Also really special? Being that close to George Takei and Lea Salonga, George we know and love because of his real life persona post-Star Trek. Lea is a theatre goddess, after originating the role of Kim in \u201cMiss Saigon\u201d when she was just 18, in 1989. She also played Eponine in Les Miserables on Broadway so she just dies in every single f-ing show she\u2019s in. Can we maybe get a show for Lea where she lives at the end? Anyway, her voice was spellbinding then and she is similarly captivating and wonderful here. She rightly gets the best songs, including the heartbreaking \u201cHigher\u201d and the show\u2019s anthem \u201cGaman\u201d, which is a Buddhist word meaning patience, perseverance, and \u2018enduring the seemingly unbearable with dignity\u2019. Like I said, the score isn\u2019t life-changing but it is satisfying and moving, and these two songs alone make a case for it.<\/p>\n

\u201cAllegiance\u201d won\u2019t win any awards and will close far from recouping, but it’s a lovely show that is so heartfelt and powerful. I hope it has a long life with regional productions and maybe most importantly school shows. It\u2019s the kind of show that needs to be performed and seen everywhere. I spoke with Takei after the show about how awful it is that the show\u2019s lessons are so relevant today, when we should know better. He was the best person ever at stage door, by the way, and talked for a while about how he hopes the country will make good decisions and stop putting blatant racists in power. My words; George was much more eloquent and kind than I could ever hope to be. I hope for all of our sakes that the message this show shares so beautifully is shared, and embraced.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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