On Wednesday, the show’s audience included Justin Trudeau, Canada’s prime minister, and Ivanka Trump, who arrived shortly after a federal court in Hawaii ordered a nationwide halt on the Trump administration’s proposed ban on travellers from several Muslim-majority countries. Photograph: Ryan Remiorz/AP“Today is a weird day for Ivanka to be at something called We Come from Away,” one person wrote on Twitter. The “day her daddy’s Muslim ban got shot down again, she saw a show about welcoming strangers,” noted another. The surprise pairing of Trump and Trudeau at the show was “rich with symbolism”, the New York Times noted. As Ivanka Trump watched the musical, her father was leading a raucous rally in Nashville, slamming the court ruling as an “unprecedented judicial overreach” and vowing to fight back.

Source: The Guardian March 16, 2017 17:33 UTC