Allegiance

On the day Pearl Harbor is attacked, the Kimura family's world is torn apart. Forced from their California farm along with 120,000 Japanese Americans, young Sammy Kimura, his sister Kei, their father, and grandfather are sent to the Heart Mountain internment camp in Wyoming — where each must choose what allegiance means. Sammy enlists in the legendary 442nd Regimental Combat Team to prove his patriotism; Kei stands with the resisters who refuse to fight for a country that has imprisoned them. Their choices will divide the family for sixty years.

Inspired by George Takei's own childhood imprisonment in American internment camps, Allegiance stars Takei — in his Broadway debut — alongside Tony Award winner Lea Salonga and Telly Leung, in a sweeping story of family, love, injustice, and the endurance the Japanese call gaman. "A triumph of a rare sort, shedding light in a dark corner of our history" (Deadline).

World premiere at The Old Globe, San Diego (2012) — the highest-grossing production in the theatre's history; Craig Noel Award for Outstanding New Musical

Broadway premiere at the Longacre Theatre (2015–16) — George Takei's Broadway debut and Lea Salonga's return to Broadway; Original Broadway Cast Recording on Broadway Records

Filmed live on Broadway; its December 2016 Fathom Events cinema premiere became the highest-grossing one-night musical event in Fathom's history, with encore screenings nationwide in 2017 and 2018

Allegiance to Broadway documentary (2018)

Los Angeles premiere with East West Players at the Aratani Theatre (2018); Japanese-language premiere in Tokyo, Nagoya, and Osaka (Horipro, 2021)

UK & European premiere at London's Charing Cross Theatre (2023) — George Takei's London stage debut

Streaming worldwide on BroadwayHD; available on DVD as a Limited Edition Collector Box Set

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