Immigrants, The Musical! (Part One)

Immigrants, The Musical! (Part One)
Theater	The Institution Theater
Directed by	Lahari Samineni Asaf Ronen
Tech Director(s)	Mark Shoemaker Lance Hunter
Stage Manager(s)	Sandra Ybarra
Music Director(s)	Tosin Awofeso
Cast	Allison Day Amar Dev Dori Alvarado Frank Sánchez Heidi Rogers Kelly Campbell Kim Tran Marc Jalandoon Mars Wright Shannon Dale Stott Sushant Sethi
Run	June - July 2017

Immigrants, The Musical! (Part One) was a mainstage show at The Institution Theater which explored the stories of immigrants into the United States through the cast.

Summary

Every immigrant story is different, but similar. The journey here, the confrontations, the communities that get formed, the many ways a name can get mispronounced, the homemade lunches that look different from every other kids school lunch. Every day is a story of their straddling that line between American assimilation and maintaining a cultural identity. It’s a balancing act that gets passed down from generation to generation.

IMMIGRANTS, THE MUSICAL! (PART 1) is a chance for the cast to tell their story (Hamilton-style!) through an improvised musical reaching from their varied backgrounds: Dominican Republic, India, Ireland, Nigeria, the Philippines, Vietnam. Each of them has personal experiences to pull from, guided by the audience, into a unique tapestry of what it truly means to be American, or at least try to blend in.