The Immigrant

• Workshop (2000)
  New York, NY
• World Premiere (2002)
  Denver, CO
• Original Off-Broadway Production (2004)
  New York, NY
• Regional Revival (2005)
  Westport, CT

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Original score

• The Stars
• A Stranger Here
• Simply Free
• Changes
• Travel Light
• Keep Him Safe
• I Don't Want It
• Take the Comforting Hand of Jesus
• Padadooly
• The Sun Comes Up
• Candlesticks
• Safe and Sound
  • aka Shabbos [no note]
• Where Would You Be?
• No Place To Go

Based on the play The Immigrant: A Hamilton Family Album by Mark Harelik

The true story of Haskell Harelik, a young Russian Jew who instead of passing through Ellis Island, enters through Galveston and struggles to assimilate into a rural community in Texas. Commonly referred to as the 'Galveston Movement,' Harelik's story begins like so many others in 1909, peddling a pushcart full of bananas and wares - but his fate is changed forever when he asks Milton, a small-town banker, and his Southern Baptist wife for a drink of water from their well. Harelik's compelling story of opportunity, success and the challenges of educating a new community is the essence of the American experience.