George Takei, Lea Salonga, Telly Leung, and More Preview Broadway's Allegiance
![Lea Salonga performs "Higher" from Allegiance during an open-house press preview of the new musical.](https://cs-tm-prod-photos.azureedge.net/107001.jpg "Lea Salonga performs "Higher" from Allegiance during an open-house press preview of the new musical.")
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George Takei, Lea Salonga, and the stars of Allegiance took a break from tech rehearsals to host an open-house rehearsal at the Longacre Theatre on September 29. Directed by Stafford Arima, Allegiance begins performances there October 6, with opening night set for November 8.
Written by Marc Acito, Jay Kuo, and Lorenzo Thione, Allegiance is inspired by Takei's true childhood experiences and is set during the period of Japanese-American internment in World War II.
As previously announced, Takei stars as Sam Kimura/Ojii San in his Broadway debut, along with Salonga as Kei Kimura, Telly Leung as Sammy Kimura, Katie Rose Clarke as Hannah Campbell, Michael K. Lee as Frankie Suzuki, Christopheren Nomura as Tatsuo Kimura, and Greg Watanabe as Mike Masaoka.
The ensemble includes Aaron J. Albano, Belinda Allyn, Marcus Choi, Janelle Dote, Dan Horn, Owen Johnston, Darren Lee, Kevin Munhall, Manna Nichols, Autumn Ogawa, Rumi Oyama, Momoko Sugai, Sam Tanabe, Elena Wang, Scott Watanabe and Scott Wise.
Check out TheaterMania's photos from the press preview in the gallery below.
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