George Takei builds on legacy with 'Allegiance'
By Karen Wada
September 16, 2012, 5:00 a.m.
SAN DIEGO When he was 5, George Takei, his parents and his little brother and sister were rousted from their home in Los Angeles, housed in a stable and then shipped to a World War II internment camp in Arkansas.
Seventy years later, the actor best known as "Star Trek's" Sulu has not forgotten his family's ordeal. Which is why his latest role is so close to his heart: He is starring in a musical about the internment of Japanese Americans, part of what he calls "my life's mission to bring this story to a wider audience."
In "Allegiance A New American Musical" at the Old Globe, Takei portrays Sam Kimura, an elderly U.S. Army vet who looks back at the internment and how it changed his life and those of his father, grandfather and sister, Kei.
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