"Allegiance," a Broadway musical set against the historical internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, will close its doors on Feb. 14, but star George Takei expressed pride in the show's achievements and its role in preserving an important but marginalized episode from U.S. history.
"We were expecting a much longer run, of course, but we have accomplished a great deal in the five months that we've been playing on Broadway," Takei said Monday.
"This is the first time in American theater history that the story of the internment of Japanese-Americans is being told on the Broadway stage," he said, adding his praise for the largely Asian and Asian- American cast and pride in having drawn much higher turnout among Asian audiences than the Broadway average.