“America, open your arms to a poor wandering soul.”  These opening lyrics set the tone for this epic adventure.  Set in 1907 (the peak immigration year) the show tracks the lives of several immigrant families and individuals as they trek to America,  some escaping from tyranny, through storm and illness, in search of the American dream of liberty and prosperity.  The visions and anxieties of characters  such as; Irish revolutionaries,  Swedish,  Italian, Hungarian, and West Indian families, a Russian anarchist, and a Jewish ballerina escaping pogroms, are craftily interwoven to climax in a double wedding presided over by Commissioner Watchorn at the Ellis Island kissing post.  This epic show gives youngsters a sense of the joys, fears and hardships that our immigrant forefathers experienced.