Theater review: 'Allegiance' gives Japanese internment a soft focus
The musical premieres at the Old Globe as a mild story of broken family ties, not a judgment of U.S. mistakes related to the internment of Japanese Americans in the 1940s.SAN DIEGO — Like "The Scottsboro Boys" and "Parade" before it, "Allegiance — A New American Musical," about the internment of Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbor, attempts to confront a shameful episode in American history and rewrite …