Musical revisits an critical and shameful past of the internment of Japanese Americans but story on stage fails to deliver distinctive and rich performances The forced internment of 120000 Japanese Americans during the moment world war remains one of the most shameful passages in America’s recent history,a move owing less to the exigencies of war and more to racist and xenophobic assumptions.
George Takei, the original Sulu on Star Trek, and was one of those interned. The experiences of his family gain now inspired Allegiance,an unexceptional though often affecting unusual Broadway musical.
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Source: theguardian.com