George is probably the most notable living person who has lived through the internment, and he's a working actor in our business, it seemed insane not to have him involved in the show. So I got up the courage to approach him. Alexander Woo More Quotes by Alexander Woo More Quotes From Alexander Woo With' Allegiance,' George used the vocabulary of musical theater to tell the story of the whole spectrum of emotions of the internment, i felt like George would be familiar and receptive to that [ horror ] approach to telling the story, because it's a style of storytelling that, hopefully, allows you to access the emotions of the characters involved. Alexander Woo top-news Having George there as sort of the spiritual leader of our production, I think made everyone feel like this was something special, that even though this is the story of the Japanese Americans in the 1940s, it is not exclusively a story for Japanese Americans. It's a story for anyone whose life has been shaped or touched by the immigrant experience, which quite frankly in this country is just about anyone. Alexander Woo top-news The conceit of the show is using a genre vocabulary to tell a historical story. Alexander Woo top-news
