Posts Tagged ‘Japanese American Cultural & Community Center’

FLOWER DRUM SONG

A hundred million miracles may be happening every day, but none are more miraculous where musical theater is concerned than the one that has transformed Flower Drum Song, splendiferously revived at Little Tokyo’s Aratani Theatre, from a show filled with antiquated stereotypes to one that can now take its place among Rodgers and Hammerstein’s finest.

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ALLEGIANCE

Allegiance has arrived at Little Tokyo’s Aritani Theatre, and if the feel-good Broadway musical about the forced internment of 70,000 American citizens and another 40,000 longtime U.S. residents tries too hard to be a crowd-pleaser in ways that the similarly fact-based Parade and The Scottsboro Boys did not, its East West Players debut is if nothing else a splendidly performed (and refreshingly homegrown) Los Angeles Premiere that scores bonus points for the light it sheds on a dark stain in American history.
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