The Immigrant: A New American Musical

The Immigrant is a four-person chamber musical and the biographical story of the author’s grandfather, a young Jew who fled the pogroms of Czarist Russia in 1909 and pushed his banana cart into the tiny Baptist community of Hamilton, Texas. The story follows two couples. Husband and wife Haskell and Leah who have immigrated from Russia to the Texas town; husband and wife Milton and Ima, on the other hand, bring the Jewish couple into their home. This musical is a true story of parents and children, newcomers and natives, Christians and Jews, and the realization of the American Dream.