They Just Want to Meet the Nice People
Late last spring, Barbara Pearson, who lives in Kips Bay and works in pharmaceutical advertising, took her 90-year-old mother and 37-year-old daughter to see the Broadway musical “Come From Away.” The Tony Award-winning production, which opened in March of last year at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater on West 45th Street, tells the true story of what happened on 9/11 when 38 planes from all over the world were rerouted and ordered to land in Gander, a remote, tiny town in the no
Review: Come From Away is a story of coming together on an ‘island in between’
Come From Away has landed back in Toronto – and if the rapturous reception that greeted the opening performance by a new Canadian cast on Sunday afternoon at the Royal Alexandra Theatre is anything to go by, it may be here for a long-enough layover to change the very nature of commercial theatre in this city. The new cast of Come From Away includes no Newfoundlanders despite being set in Gander, a fact that made the news in St John’s. Local couple Irene Sankoff and David Hein
