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/...
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crunivtoronpr:10.3138/ctr.171.010 2023-12-31T10:15:48+01:00 The Need of a Good Story: Understanding Come From Away ’s Warm Reception 2017 http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/ctr.171.010 https://ctr.utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3138/ctr.171.010 en eng University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) Canadian Theatre Review volume 171, page 52-58 ISSN 0315-0836 1920-941X Visual Arts and Performing Arts journal-article 2017 crunivtoronpr https://doi.org/10.3138/ctr.171.010 2023-12-01T08:17:52Z 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. Article in Journal/Newspaper Newfoundland University of Toronto Press (U Toronto Press - via Crossref) Canadian Theatre Review 171 52 58 |
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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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