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The Need of a Good Story: Understanding Come From Away’s Warm Reception

Author(s) -

Dahlia Katz,

Katie Gray

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

canadian theatre review

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.171

H-Index - 6

eISSN - 1920-941X

pISSN - 0315-0836

DOI - 10.3138/ctr.171.010

Subject(s) - musical , utopia , performance art , art , art history , history , visual arts , literature

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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