Had an outstanding dinner and a show tonight.....show review first!
Allegiance is at the Old Globe, and stars George Takei, Lea Salonga and the young Telly Leung (from Glee and Godspell).
Show was AMAZING. Cast was so earnest and talented, and showed that it was nonsense that the La Jolla Playhouse suggested it couldn't find enough good Asian actors for Nightingale. (In fact Christopher Ashley and Michael Rosenberg were in the house tonight, and we were speculating on whether they were sheepishly thinking this themselves!). Play is musical about the experience of a multigeneration Japanese-American family interned in Wyoming after 1941. Totally heartwrenching, beautiful score, so well-sung and acted. And the set designer needs to get a Tony when this goes to Broadway. Whole show will be a hit.
Met George Takei after, thanked him so much for the beautiful show and for telling us his own story (he was interned as a child and didn't want to talk or think about it for decades). He said the play is definitely going to Broadway. And that there are still lots of tickets available for the rest of the Globe run (even though tonight played to a full, loud house, which thunderously applauded after each great number and jumped to its feet at curtain call).
CH was happy to see his idol Lea Salonga. She is really dazzling and has such a gorgeous voice. She even made herself look frumpy here, which is quite a feat.
More info is at: http://www.theoldglobe.org/pressphotos/allegiance.html. GO SEE IT! (it deserves full houses every night, and is a never-to-be-forgotten kind of show!)
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