Straight from the Broadway stage, the Sedona International Film Festival will bring the groundbreaking musical George Takei’s “Allegiance” to Sedona on Sunday, May 28, at 4 and 7 p.m. on screen at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre.
It is the perfect way to honor Memorial Day and veterans. Their loyalty was questioned, their freedom taken away, but their spirit could never be broken. Rejoice in one family’s triumphant story of hope, love and forgiveness in the new Broadway musical: “Allegiance.”
Filmed live on stage on Broadway, this not-to-be-missed theatrical event is inspired by the true life experience of George Takei [“Star Trek,” “Heroes”]. “Allegiance” follows one family’s extraordinary journey into this untold American story.
“Allegiance” is the story of the Kimura family, whose lives are upended when they and 120,000 other Japanese-Americans are forced to leave their homes following the events of Pearl Harbor. President Franklin Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066 of February 1942 ordered Americans of Japanese ancestry to vacate the “exclusion area” of California, Oregon, Washington and southern Arizona and be sent to internment camps in the American interior where they were detained until March 1946.
Sam Kimura seeks to prove his patriotism by fighting for his country in the war, but his sister, Kei, fiercely protests the government’s treatment of her people.
An uplifting testament to the power of the human spirit, “Allegiance” follows the Kimuras as they fight between duty and defiance, custom and change, family bonds and forbidden loves. But as long-lost memories are unlocked, Sam finds that it is never too late to forgive and to recognize the redemptive power of love.
Legendary performer George Takei — who was as a child interred at Rohwer War Relocation Center in Rohwer, Ark., and Tule Lake War Relocation Center in California — stars alongside Tony-winner Lea Salonga [“Miss Saigon,” “Mulan”] in this enthralling and epic new musical.
George Takei’s “Allegiance” will be shown at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre on Sunday, May 28, at 4 and 7 p.m. Tickets are $15, or $13 for Film Festival members. Tickets are available in advance at the Sedona International Film Festival office or by calling 282-1177 or online at SedonaFilmFestival.org. Both the theatre and film festival office are located at 2030 W. SR 89A in West Sedona.
