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Come From Away

Come from Away

Shows · Come from Away

On September 11, 2001, when American airspace is closed, 38 planes carrying nearly 7,000 passengers are diverted to the tiny town of Gander, Newfoundland. Over five extraordinary days, the bewildered townspeople open their homes, hearts, and barbecue grills to the stranded travelers, forging unexpected friendships across cultures and languages as the world outside reels from the attacks.

Opened
2017
Performances
1,670
Type
Musical
Era
Contemporary
Music: Irene Sankoff & David HeinLyrics: Irene Sankoff & David HeinBook: Irene Sankoff & David Hein

Productions3 on Broadway

2017 Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre Original. March 12, 2017 · Christopher Ashley 1,670 performances · 1 Tony wins
2019 Transfer Theatre not recorded.
2023 Transfer Theatre not recorded. September 8, 2025

Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.

Licensing 1 entry

US Music Theatre International Come From Away matched on title alone — a lead, not a confirmed licensor

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In the literature5 passages

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… book:dominic-mchugh-the-oxford-handbook-of-musical-theatre-screen-adaptations-2019-ox#p43

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). book:broadway-bodies-ryan-donovan-2023#p185

Come from Away (Sankoff, Hein), 170 book:broadway-bodies-ryan-donovan-2023#p321

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. book:the-book-of-broadway-musical-debates-disputes-and-peter-filichia-rowman-littlefi#p103

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. book:the-book-of-broadway-musical-debates-disputes-and-peter-filichia-rowman-littlefi#p193

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