Come from Away, 2017

The run closed October 2, 2022

Opened

March 12, 2017

Closed

October 2, 2022

Performances

1,670

Previews

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Theatre

Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre

Of the 426 productions we hold that opened in the 2010s and record a performance count, this is the 8th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Come from Away 2 more that season

Who was in it22 named

Joel Hatch
Kendra Kassebaum
Sharon Wheatley
Marika Aubrey
Holly Ann Butler
Alex Finke
Becky Gulsvig
Kevin S Mcallister
Sharone Sayegh
James Seol
Pearl Sun
Emily Walton
Gene Weygandt
Paul Whitty

8 of these 22 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 14 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Characters2 roles recorded

Mary Doherty Bonnie & others
Harry Morrison Oz & others

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Creative team

Director

Christopher Ashley

Choreographer

Kelly Devine

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Tony Awards 1 from 7 nominations

Around this production

Come from Away is a musical, with book, music and lyrics by Irene Sankoff and David Hein. It is based on the events in the Newfoundland town of Gander during the week following the September 11 attacks, when 38 planes, carrying approximately 7,000 passengers, were ordered to land unexpectedly at Gander International Airport. The characters in the musical are based on actual Gander residents and the stranded travelers they housed and fed. After a successful pre-Broadway run, it opened on Broadway at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre on March 12, 2017, and became a critical and box office success. A live recording of the production was released on September 10, 2021, on the eve of the 20th anniver…

• Playbill.com also lists 13, American Idiot, Bare, Beautiful, Cats, Come from Away, Finding Neverland, Guys and Dolls, Gypsy, In the Heights, Jekyll & Hyde, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Little Shop of Horrors, Lysistrata Jones, Matilda, Miss Saigon, Oliver!, Pippin, South Pacific, Spring Awakening, Suns… Dominic Mchugh the Oxford Handbook of Musical Theatre Screen Adaptations 2019 Ox, p. 43
• After coming out, she continued getting cast in Broadway musicals as both straight and gay characters, including featured roles in Chaplin (2012), If/​Then (2014), and Come from Away (2017). Broadway Bodies Ryan Donovan 2023, p. 185
• Come from Away (Sankoff, Hein), 170 Broadway Bodies Ryan Donovan 2023, p. 321
• The residents of Gander, Newfoundland (Come from Away, 2017). The moment that these people hear that seven thousand people are stranded as a result of the 9/11 terrorists attacks, all they can do is think about how they can help them. Nothing else matters. The Book of Broadway Musical Debates Disputes and Peter Filichia Rowman Littlefi, p. 103
• Come from Away versus SpongeBob Square Pants (2017). With Dear Evan Hansen out of the way, it would have been clear sailing for this small earnest and heartwarming musical about 9/11 victims and its saviors. The Book of Broadway Musical Debates Disputes and Peter Filichia Rowman Littlefi, p. 193

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What this page does not know

• No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
• No recording is held for Come from Away at all.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.