Sanctuary City Story
Drawing by Tom Hachtman
Feel yourself transported (as if to El Salvador) as the beloved yet brutal mass deportations ripped from today's headlines finally reach the big screen in the musical adaptation of Sanctuary City Story.
You'll laugh and cry, but mostly cry, as the illegal Sharks sing America:
I like to leave from America,
Nothing for me in America,
I won't be free in America.
You'll feel the beating heart beneath the flak jacket as the masked ICE agent sings Maria:
Maria!
I just cuffed a girl named Maria,
And suddenly that name
Is permanently lame
To me.
You'll feel deep relief when the mean hombres are carted off to parts unknown as they sing the haunting Nowhere:
There's no place for us,
Nowhere a place for us.
Guards and bars and shaved hair
Wait for us, down there.
