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  • Lake Superior Theatre
  • Summer 2022
    • Something Rotten!
    • Nunsense
    • Comedy Tonight
    • My Son Pinocchio
    • Superior Memories
    • Franklin Park Band
  • Tickets
    • How To Buy Tickets
    • 2019 Ticket Order Forms
  • About Us
    • History of LSYY
    • Videos
    • Reviews and Media Stories
    • Superior Arts Youth Theater
    • Awards
    • Contact LST >
      • Support LST >
        • Donate
        • Donor Page
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  • Past Plays
    • 1999-2002 >
      • Points North
      • Beacon On The Rock
      • Haywire
      • Escanaba in Da Moonlight
    • 2003-2004 >
      • Life on the Fly
      • Superior Heroes >
        • Captain
        • Peter White
      • Holdin Our Own
      • Beacon On The Rock
      • Charlie Brown
      • Dear Edwina
      • Songs on the Shore
    • 2005-2006 >
      • Honk Jr
      • 1776
      • Songs for a New World
      • A Gala Day
      • A Funny Thing Happened
      • Into The Woods JR
      • The Christmas Schooner
      • Proof
    • 2007-2008 >
      • Anything Goes
      • Guys and Dolls
      • Keepers of The Light
      • Beacon On The Rock
      • Escanaba in Love
      • Treasure Island a Pirates Tale
      • A Midsummer Nights Dream
    • 2009-2010 >
      • Guys on Ice
      • Anatomy of a Murder
      • Macsith
      • The Orphan Train
    • 2011-2012 >
      • Lake Stories
      • Little Women
      • Last Five Years
      • Twelth Night
      • The Lion the Slave and the Rodent
    • 2012-2013 >
      • A Thousand Clowns
      • Dandelion Cottage
      • A Night of Broadway
      • Mouse That Roared
    • 2013 Plays >
      • Beacon On The Rock
      • Pirates of Penzance
      • Honk Jr
      • Superior Broadway
      • SPECIAL SHOWING: A Man Named Marquette
    • 2014 PLAYS >
      • PIPPIN
      • I Do! I Do! >
        • I Do, I Do Cast
      • NARNIA
      • KING LEAR
    • Summer 2015 >
      • SPAMALOT
      • QUILTERS
      • ONCE ON THIS ISLAND JR
      • AS YOU LIKE IT
    • Summer 2016 >
      • The Producers
      • James & the Giant Peach
      • Do Black Shoes Reflect Up
      • Butterflies Are Free
      • Julius Caesar
      • Auditions
    • Summer 2017 >
      • Grease
      • Schoolhouse Rock Live! Jr.
      • Steel Magnolias
      • Hamlet
      • Superior Cabaret
    • SUMMER 2018 >
      • Beacon on the Rock
      • Superior Adventures
      • High School Musical Jr.
      • Godspell
      • Sandra Joseph
      • Broadway at the Boathouse
    • SUMMER 2019 >
      • Fiddler on the Roof
      • Spotlight on Marquette Artists
      • Into the Woods Jr.
      • Dixie Swim Club
      • Miscast Musical
      • Summer 2021 >
        • 2020 Boathouse Upgrades
  • FAQ

ORPHAN TRAIN

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A wonderful story, moving, amusing, and always tellingly human of nine orphans on an Orphan Train that left New York City on May 28, 1914, and traveled to Midwestern towns in search of homes for the children. The lonesome whistle wails as the train chugs between encounters of anxiety, laughter, wistfulness, rejection and acceptance. Eight stories unfold, each a memorable surprise. THE ORPHAN TRAIN is a charming heart-warmer . The first Orphan Train Riders (14 boys), arrived in Dowagiac, Michigan on Sunday morning in late September 1854, traveling on the Michigan Central Railroad.  By 1927, forty-three Michigan 
towns would also receive orphans from the “Baby Train”, as it was sometimes called.  Most of the 
children came from the New York Children’s Aid Society and the New England Home for “Little 
Wanderers”. 
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Between 1854 and 1929

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hirty nine percent were girls, and most children were never adopted. Between 1854 and 1929 an estimated 200,000 orphaned, abandoned, and homeless children were placed out during, what is known today as, the Orphan Train Movement. The name is derived 
from the children's situations, though they were not all orphans, and the mode of transportation used to move them across forty-seven states and Canada.

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  • Lake Superior Theatre
  • Summer 2022
    • Something Rotten!
    • Nunsense
    • Comedy Tonight
    • My Son Pinocchio
    • Superior Memories
    • Franklin Park Band
  • Tickets
    • How To Buy Tickets
    • 2019 Ticket Order Forms
  • About Us
    • History of LSYY
    • Videos
    • Reviews and Media Stories
    • Superior Arts Youth Theater
    • Awards
    • Contact LST >
      • Support LST >
        • Donate
        • Donor Page
        • Program Ads
        • Check
        • Credit Card
  • Past Plays
    • 1999-2002 >
      • Points North
      • Beacon On The Rock
      • Haywire
      • Escanaba in Da Moonlight
    • 2003-2004 >
      • Life on the Fly
      • Superior Heroes >
        • Captain
        • Peter White
      • Holdin Our Own
      • Beacon On The Rock
      • Charlie Brown
      • Dear Edwina
      • Songs on the Shore
    • 2005-2006 >
      • Honk Jr
      • 1776
      • Songs for a New World
      • A Gala Day
      • A Funny Thing Happened
      • Into The Woods JR
      • The Christmas Schooner
      • Proof
    • 2007-2008 >
      • Anything Goes
      • Guys and Dolls
      • Keepers of The Light
      • Beacon On The Rock
      • Escanaba in Love
      • Treasure Island a Pirates Tale
      • A Midsummer Nights Dream
    • 2009-2010 >
      • Guys on Ice
      • Anatomy of a Murder
      • Macsith
      • The Orphan Train
    • 2011-2012 >
      • Lake Stories
      • Little Women
      • Last Five Years
      • Twelth Night
      • The Lion the Slave and the Rodent
    • 2012-2013 >
      • A Thousand Clowns
      • Dandelion Cottage
      • A Night of Broadway
      • Mouse That Roared
    • 2013 Plays >
      • Beacon On The Rock
      • Pirates of Penzance
      • Honk Jr
      • Superior Broadway
      • SPECIAL SHOWING: A Man Named Marquette
    • 2014 PLAYS >
      • PIPPIN
      • I Do! I Do! >
        • I Do, I Do Cast
      • NARNIA
      • KING LEAR
    • Summer 2015 >
      • SPAMALOT
      • QUILTERS
      • ONCE ON THIS ISLAND JR
      • AS YOU LIKE IT
    • Summer 2016 >
      • The Producers
      • James & the Giant Peach
      • Do Black Shoes Reflect Up
      • Butterflies Are Free
      • Julius Caesar
      • Auditions
    • Summer 2017 >
      • Grease
      • Schoolhouse Rock Live! Jr.
      • Steel Magnolias
      • Hamlet
      • Superior Cabaret
    • SUMMER 2018 >
      • Beacon on the Rock
      • Superior Adventures
      • High School Musical Jr.
      • Godspell
      • Sandra Joseph
      • Broadway at the Boathouse
    • SUMMER 2019 >
      • Fiddler on the Roof
      • Spotlight on Marquette Artists
      • Into the Woods Jr.
      • Dixie Swim Club
      • Miscast Musical
      • Summer 2021 >
        • 2020 Boathouse Upgrades
  • FAQ