By Ed Diokno

The musical Allegiance, which opened just two months ago on Broadway at the Longacre Theatre, has set a closing date for its Broadway run – Feb. 14, 2016.

The silver lining, however, is that the producers are making plans for a national tour.

It’s your time now to experience our story. Join us before February 14! ? https://t.co/Qjv5wNzYgK pic.twitter.com/Z2IxmschCH — Allegiance Broadway (@allegiancebway) January 6, 2016

In a statement, producers for Allegiance said:

“Bringing “Allegiance” to Broadway was not only a labor of love for our entire creative team and this company of extraordinary artists, but it was also a work with deep commitment to social relevance and impact. We are so proud to have brought George Takei’s very personal family history to the stage and – in the process – to have surfaced a chapter of history that was painfully unknown to so many.

“By its last performance Allegiance will have been seen on Broadway by approximately 120,000 people, a number that eerily echoes the number of Japanese Americans who were directly impacted by the events that inspired our musical, and whose rights were trampled in the name of pure fear and intolerance.

“We look forward to continuing to share this essential story — more relevant than ever, given today’s headlines — and this moving score with theatergoers across the country and around the world for many years to come.

“Audiences who have experienced Allegiance on Broadway have left the theater transformed, uplifted, enlightened, inspired, informed, and entertained. We remain committed to finding more ways in which the true impact of Allegiance will continue.”



By the time the show closes, it will have played 37 previews and 113 regular performances.

The storyline is partially inspired on the life of actor George Takei (who also stars) and his experience in Japanese American incarceration camps during World War II. Allegiance also stars Tony winner Lea Salonga and Telly Leung, and tells the story of a family uprooted and forced to adapt to a new mode of life demanded by a frightened country which would not dare to accept difference.

