Musical Theatre songs/shows about immigration?

[Goofers01]

Posted: 4/15/17 at 1:44pm

Hi everyone,

I desperately need help finding musical theatre songs about immigration for a project. I'm already going to look into "Titanic" and probably use "America" from "West Side Story". Does anyone else possibly know any songs or shows that would work for the theme? I really appreciate it

[LuminousBeing]

Posted: 4/15/17 at 1:49pm

"Journey On" from "Ragtime"

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 4/15/17 at 2:13pm

"I Am Going to Like it Here" FLOWER DRUM SONG
"Anetevka" FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (every song about emigration is also about immigration)
"I'll Be Here Tomorrow"  THE GRAND TOUR
"How Are Things in Glocca Morra" FINIAN'S RAINBOW
"I Am So Easily Assimilated" CANDIDE 
"Poems" PACIFIC OVERTURE (partially and less directly)
Just about the entire score of RAGS
Much of the score of HAMILTON and THE ROTHSCHILDS
Perhaps something from NEW GIRL IN TOWN



 

Updated On: 4/15/17 at 02:13 PM

[ggersten]

Posted: 4/15/17 at 3:12pm

Spanish Rose from Bye Bye Birdie about prejudice and assumptions about who is an "American".   Not really about "immigrants" but perceptions of same.

Usnavi lines in In The Heights.

 

[dianamorales]

Posted: 4/15/17 at 3:15pm

"America" from Ragtime definitely!

"If You Want to Die in Bed" from Miss Saigon could work

[ccbroadway13]

Posted: 4/15/17 at 3:27pm

"Paciencia y Fe" from In the Heights! Many other songs from In the Heights also have lines about immigration. 

[broadwayboy223]

Posted: 4/15/17 at 3:32pm

Children of the Wind from Rags

[@z5]

Posted: 4/15/17 at 4:52pm

Possibly even 'Anatevka' from Fiddler on the Roof.

[jo]

Posted: 4/15/17 at 6:45pm

In the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical about sectarian violence in Northern Ireland ( A Beautiful Game, now called The Boys from the Photograph), two women sing a poignant duet. One is about to leave her country ( for political and economic reasons) while the other chooses to stay in  a country wracked with internal conflict.

Their song is called GOD'S OWN COUNTRY  -  a song about the country they love!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XKN_YKVMqo'

Here's an audio version ( much clearer) --

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKic0giL86I



From the revised musical --

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0gDulwVbOw

Lyrics --

http://www.metrolyrics.com/gods-own-country-lyrics-a.html
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Updated On: 4/17/17 at 06:45 PM

[Goofers01]

Posted: 4/17/17 at 1:18am

Thank you SO much, everyone!

[StephieElise]

Posted: 4/17/17 at 1:56am

There's a few from Songs for a New World: Opening: The New World and then On the Deck of a Spanish Sailing Ship.

Colossus from King Kong could work too. It's about the Statue of Liberty. Unfortunately this recording of a piano version from the launch is all I could find of it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lkrhnnKkHWg

Google also tells me there was an Off-Broadway musical called The Immigrant, so you might find something useful there: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Immigrant_(musical)

[talinatter]

Posted: 4/17/17 at 1:59am

A- Anything from rags 
- Anything from the immigrant 
- Pacienca y fe (in the heights)
- Lady's maid (titanic)
- America (west side story)
- Salt lay kasiti (book of Mormon)
- A new world (songs for a new world)
- Anatevka/ far from the home I love (fiddler on the roof)
- success (ragtime)
- Melt us, what a country (all American)
- God's own country (the beautiful game)
- The movie in my mind (miss Saigon)
- Higher, gaman (allegiance)
- Miss Little Havana (by Gloria Estefan but not actually in on your feet) 
- How are things in glocca morra (Finian's rainbow)

 

[gracespens]

Posted: 11/8/22 at 12:13pm

talinatter said: "A- Anything from rags
- Anything from the immigrant
- Pacienca y fe (in the heights)
- Lady's maid (titanic)
- America (west side story)
- Salt lay kasiti (book of Mormon)
- A new world (songs for a new world)
- Anatevka/ far from the home I love (fiddler on the roof)
- success (ragtime)
- Melt us, what a country (all American)
- God's own country (the beautiful game)
- The movie in my mind (miss Saigon)
- Higher, gaman (allegiance)
- Miss Little Havana (by Gloria Estefan but not actually in on your feet)
- How are things in glocca morra (Finian's rainbow)

"

All these songs are great!

[saxpower]

Posted: 11/8/22 at 12:49pm

While not about immigration in the show "Wheels of a Dream" from Ragtime could work,

[Miles2Go2]

Posted: 11/8/22 at 3:06pm

“Alexander Hamilton” - Hamilton 

[DanielFanning]

Posted: 6/9/23 at 7:13am

talinatter said: "A- Anything from rags
- Anything from the immigrant
- Pacienca y fe (in the heights)
- Lady's maid (titanic)
- America (west side story)
- Salt lay kasiti (book of Mormon)
- A new world (songs for a new world)
- Anatevka/ far from the home I love (fiddler on the roof)
- success (ragtime)
- Melt us, what a country (all American)
- God's own country (the beautiful game)
- The movie in my mind (miss Saigon)
- Higher, gaman (allegiance)
- Miss Little Havana (by Gloria Estefan but not actually in on your feet)
- How are things in glocca morra (Finian's rainbow)

"

The most I like America (west side story) and How are things in glocca morra (Finian's rainbow)

[BETTY22]

Posted: 6/9/23 at 7:22am

Act one of HARMONY ends with an epic song called Home.