The Need of a Good Story: Understanding Come From Away ’s Warm Reception
The Canadian musical Come From Away opened on Broadway in February 2017 after highly successful runs in both Canada and the US. The musical depicts the generous response of the residents of Gander, Newfoundland, when passengers on thirty-eight planes were stranded there for several days following 9/...
| Published in: | Canadian Theatre Review |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
2017
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/ctr.171.010 https://ctr.utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3138/ctr.171.010 |
| Summary: | The Canadian musical Come From Away opened on Broadway in February 2017 after highly successful runs in both Canada and the US. The musical depicts the generous response of the residents of Gander, Newfoundland, when passengers on thirty-eight planes were stranded there for several days following 9/11. In this piece, Barry Freeman considers what has made the musical such a success while also positioning it in a particularly American literary tradition of romanticizing Newfoundland as a pre-modern utopia. |
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