ABOUT
VOYAGES: The Musical
The issues of immigration continue...
A few years ago, I began work on the musical play, VOYAGES,
finding a remarkable parallel with the recent issues of immigration
and the voyage of the refugee ship, the S.S. St. Louis.
In 1939, nearly a thousand Jewish refugees sailed to Havana.
They were turned away and sent back to Europe,
where many died in Hitler’s concentration camps.
My dear friend, Cantor Judith Koeppel Steel, was a passenger
on board the ship, as a child, (along with her parents and grandfather,
who ultimately perished in Auschwitz.) She was saved and brought up
by a loving French Catholic family.
And now the issue of immigration has become even more timely.
David Schaefer
PASSENGERS
Looking forward to "A Bright and Shining Life".
THE VOYAGE
"Leaving the dark as we enter the light..."
THE CAPTAIN
The Captain of the
SS St Louis who struggles with "An Impossible Situation."
CUBA
"What Would a Jew Do in Havana?"
DREAMS
"...Of A New Life, in A New Place..."