Christopher Ashley’s production has a driving pace that grabs the audience’s attention and barely lets go throughout the one-act, 110-minute running time. Come From Away really really believes in goodness and it really really wants you to believe in it too. This might sound like unlikely material for its chosen medium — a 9/11 musical, really? .”), while also establishing Sankoff and Hein’s approach to songwriting, which mixes classic musical theatre elements with folk and rock elements. Wisely, Sankoff and Hein choose one planeload, piloted by Beverley Bass (Jenn Colella), as the focus of their storytelling.

Source: thestar November 24, 2016 18:20 UTC