East West Players and Japanese American Cultural & Community Center (JACCC) By Special Arrangement with Sing Out, Louise! Productions & ATA PRESENT BOOK BY Marc Acito, Jay Kuo, and Lorenzo Thione MUSIC AND LYRICS BY Jay Kuo STARRING George Takei Eymard Cabling, Cesar Cipriano, Janelle Dote, Jordan Goodsell, Ethan Le Phong, Sharline Liu, Natalie Holt MacDonald, Miyuki Miyagi, Glenn Shiroma, Chad Takeda, Elena Wang, Greg Watanabe, Scott Watanabe, and Grace Yoo. SCENIC DESIGN COSTUME DESIGN LIGHTING DESIGN SOUND DESIGN PROJECTION DESIGN PROPERTY DESIGN Se Hyun Halei Karyn Cricket S Adam Glenn Michael Oh Parker Lawrence Myers Flemming Baker FIGHT ALLEGIANCE ARATANI THEATRE PRODUCTION CHOREOGRAPHY PRODUCTION MANAGER PRODUCTION MANAGER STAGE MANAGER Cesar Cipriano Andy Lowe Bobby DeLuca Morgan Zupanski COMPANY MANAGER GENERAL MANAGER ARATANI THEATRE GENERAL MANAGER Jade Cagalawan Nora DeVeau-Rosen Carol Onaga PRESS REPRESENTATIVE MARKETING GRAPHIC DESIGN Davidson & Jim Royce, Nishita Doshi Choy Publicity Anticipation Marketing EXECUTIVE PRODUCER MUSIC DIRECTOR ORCHESTRATIONS AND CHOREOGRAPHER ARRANGEMENTS Alison M. Marc Rumi Lynne Shankel De La Cruz Macalintal Oyama DIRECTED BY Snehal Desai The original Broadway production of Allegiance opened on November 8th, 2015 at the Longacre Theatre in NYC and was produced by Sing Out, Louise! Productions and ATA with Mark Mugiishi/Hawaii HUI, Hunter Arnold, Ken Davenport, Elliott Masie, Sandi Moran, Mabuhay Productions, Barbara Freitag/Eric & Marsi Gardiner, Valiant Ventures, Wendy Gillespie, David Hiatt Kraft, Norm & Diane Blumenthal, M. Bradley Calobrace, Karen Tanz, Gregory Rae/Mike Karns in association with Jas Grewal, Peter Landin, and Ron Polson. World Premiere at the Old Globe Theater, San Diego, California. Barry Edelstein, Artistic Director; Michael G. Murphy, Managing Director. Welcome to the Aratani Theatre and this performance of Allegiance. We are so proud to bring this landmark musical to Los Angeles. Snehal Desai and Leslie A. Ito. photo by Michael Palma. At a time when civil liberties are under threat and our most vulnerable communities are being targeted, Allegiance shares an essential American story, one that seeks to speak about the injustice survived by 120,000 innocent Americans persecuted and incarcerated because of their cultural and ethnic heritage. The story of Allegiance is about the resilience of the human spirit. This year marks the 76th anniversary of Executive Order 9066, which authorized the incarceration of Japanese Americans. As we lose our beloved Issei and Nisei (first and second generation Japanese Americans), we also lose their first-person narratives to document this often overlooked part of American history. It is imperative that we share their stories and above all make sure that mistakes of the past are not repeated. It has been a privilege to create this partnership between East West Players (EWP), the longest-running professional theater of color in the United States, and Japanese American Cultural & Community Center (JACCC), one of the largest ethnic arts and cultural centers in the nation. It has been nothing short of a remarkable journey to bring Allegiance home. Thank you to the tremendous company who has helped bring Allegiance to L.A. and on behalf of EWP’s and JACCC’s Board of Directors, Council of Governors, and staff, thank you for joining us. With gratitude, Snehal Desai Leslie A. Ito EWP Producing Artistic Director JACCC President & CEO CAST Kei Kimura . Elena Wang* Sam Kimura / Ojii-chan ..........................George Takei* Sammy Kimura ...............................Ethan Le Phong* Hannah Campbell .....................Natalie Holt MacDonald Frankie Suzuki ................................Eymard Cabling* Tatsuo Kimura ................................Scott Watanabe* Mike Masaoka ................................Greg Watanabe* Ben Masaoka (Issei) / Johnny Goto ...............Cesar Cipriano* Mrs. Natsumi Tanaka (Issei)......................... Sharline Liu Mr. Masato Maruyama (Issei) ....................Glenn Shiroma* Mrs. Kaori Maruyama (Issei) .......................Janelle Dote* Tom Maruyama (Nisei)............................Chad Takeda Peggy Maruyama (Nisei) . Miyuki Miyagi Nan Goto (Issei)…..................................Grace Yoo* Hakujin ......................................Jordan Goodsell ASSISTANT CHOREOGRAPHER AND DANCE CAPTAIN Janelle Dote* * Member of Actors’ Equity Association MUSICIANS Marc Macalintal .............................Music Director, Conductor/Keys Jenny Chaney ...............Assistant Music Director/Rehearsal Pianist, Keys 2 Khris Kempis ...................................................Bass Guitar Rebecca Yeh ........................................................ Cello Michael “Weeble” Boerum ..........................................Drums Richie Gonzaga .....................................Bb Trumpet/Flugelhorn John Jenkins .....................................Trombone/Bass Trombone Yu-Ting Wu .........................................................Violin Phil Moore .........................................................Reed 1 Hannah Leah Marcus ...............................................Reed 2 Anthony Villa ......................................................Reed 3 There will be one 15-minute intermission. The use of any recording device, either audio or video, and the taking of photographs, either with or without flash, is strictly prohibited. Please turn off all electronic devices during the performance. East West Players and this production at JACCC are operating under an agreement with Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors, Stage Managers, and Stage Directors and Choreographers Society in the United States. SCENES/MUSICAL NUMBERS ACT I San Francisco, California - 2001 “Prologue” ...................................................Kei, Company Salinas, CA - 1941 “Wishes on the Wind”..................................Kei, Sammy, Company “Do Not Fight the Storm” ..........................................Company Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Wyoming / Washington, DC - 1942 “Gaman” ..............................................Kei, Tatsuo, Company “What Makes a Man”.................................................Sammy “I Oughta Go”...............................................Hannah, Sammy “Get in the Game” . Sammy, Kei, Company “Should I” ......................................................... Hannah “Allegiance” ...................................Tatsuo, Sammy, Kei, Company “Ishi Kara Ishi” ................................................Ojii-chan, Kei “With You”.................................. Big Band Singer, Sammy, Hannah “Paradise” . Frankie, Company “Higher”................................................................Kei “Our Time is Now”..................... Sammy, Frankie, Kei, Hannah, Company ACT II Pisa, Italy / Heart Mountain / Tule Lake / Vosges Mountains, France - 1944 “Resist” ..................................................Frankie, Company “Allegiance” (Reprise) ................................................ Tatsuo “This Is not Over”................................................Kei, Frankie “Higher/Resist” (Reprise) .......................................Kei, Company “Stronger Than Before” ..........................................Kei, Hannah “With You” (Reprise) . .Sammy, Hannah Heart Mountain, Wyoming / Washington, DC / San Francisco, California - 1945 “Nothing In Our Way”............................................Frankie, Kei “Itetsuita” ........................................................Company “442 Victory Swing”................................................Company “Higher”/ “Ishi Kara Ishi” (Reprise) ..................................Kei, Tatsuo “How Can You Go” ..............................................Kei, Sammy San Francisco, California - 2001 “Still a Chance”................................................Kei, Company Who’s Who GEORGE TAKEI* ETHAN LE PHONG* the Rain). Thanks to Todd @ ATB, (Sam Kimura, Ojii- (Sammy Kimura). my parents, the EWP and JACCC chan). Broadway: Broadway: Aladdin team, and Jesus for this amazing Allegiance (book (Aladdin u/s). opportunity! by Marc Acito, West End: Aladdin Jay Kuo, Lorenzo (Aladdin u/s); Miss CESAR Thione). Theatre Saigon (Thuy); The CIPRIANO* (Ben credits also include King and I (Luntha); Masaoka (Issei), Stephen Sondheim Jerry Springer; Johnny Goto, Fight & John Weidman’s Pacific Overtures Thoroughly Modern Millie; WWRY. Choreographer directed by John Doyle (Classic Stage Tour: Mamma Mia (Pepper). LA and Captain). EWP: Company), Peter Shaffer’s Equus (East Theatre: EWP’s Pippin (Pippin); Jaxx’s Equus, Pippin, West Players), Shimon Wincelberg’s The Life (Jojo); Hollywood Bowl’s Les Be Like Water, Undertow (Edinburgh Festival Misérables and RENT; La Mirada’s and La Cage aux Fringe), Philip Kan Gotanda’s The 7B47B. Film: Waiting in the Wings; Big Folles. Nat’l tours of Miss Saigon and Wash (Manhattan Theatre Club, Mark Gay Love. For Terry Goldman. The King and I, and recently, Pacific Taper Forum), Frank Chin’s Year of Overtures. Film/TV: Being Mary Jane, the Dragon (American Place Theatre), EYMARD 2 Broke Girls, New Girl, Parenthood, Fly Blackbird! (Billy Rose Theatre, CABLING* (Frankie Pretty Dudes, Coffee House Metro Theater), Pacific Overtures Suzuki) has starred Chronicles, and In the Moment. (Loft Theatre), Snow White (Brighton in Miss Saigon Dome), Aladdin (Hexagon Theatre, (The Engineer); JANELLE Central Theatre). Best known as Mr. The King and I in DOTE* (Mrs. Sulu