Hope and humanity in the face of adversity is a cliché but Come From Away shows just how true that is. The actors do double and sometimes triple duty playing the residents, passengers and crew members who tell their stories directly to us, making the audience as much a part of the events as the cast. The residents of several adjacent towns unselfishly and unreservedly mounted a Herculean effort to embrace the 7,000 displaced passengers from a hundred different backgrounds for almost a week during those dark uncertain days. Gander had once been a major refueling destination decades earlier when fuel tanks were smaller. Sure, we all had to keep our masks on, but, from the moment that the welcome-back announcement from Kelley Shanley, president and CEO at Broward Center for the Performing Arts, was greeted with applause, it was obvious the audience was charged up and ready to go back to The Rock, the affectionate nickname for the tiny town of Gander in Newfoundland.Īnd this production maintained the high standards the audience was expecting-and needed.Ĭome From Away recounts what happened on 9/11 when 38 international flights were diverted to Gander, doubling the town’s population from 7,000 to 14,000. That feeling of relief, of being back to a semblance of the normal, of rejoining, well, everything, was felt on opening night of Come From Away. It seems that during last 18 months we’ve all come from away.Īnd now we are back, a bit changed like the myriad characters in Come From Away, but happy to be back. 16-21 at the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach. It seems fitting that Broadway Across America marks its return to the Broward Center-and kicks off its 2021-2022 season-with the Tony and Olivier Award winning musical Come From Away that honors themes of community, perseverance, isolation and fear of the unknown, now running in Broward through Nov. The North American Tour of Come From Away with former Hialeah resident Nick Duckart in the plaid coat fourth from the right / Photo Matthew Murphy
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