FROM 30 JANUARY 2019 | NOW ON SALE
As it continues sold-out, record-breaking engagements on Broadway, across the USA and in Canada, Come From Away will land for its UK premiere at London’s Phoenix Theatre from 30th January 2019.
This joyous new musical shares the incredible real-life story of the 7,000 air passengers from all over the world who were grounded in Canada during the wake of 9/11, and the small Newfoundland community that invited these ‘come from aways’ into their lives.
As uneasiness turned into trust and music soared into the night, gratitude grew into friendships and their stories became a celebration of hope, humanity and unity.
Awarded the Tony® for Best Direction of a Musical, Christopher Ashley’s production guides audiences through a colourful and spirited cast of characters, brought to life by Tony® and Grammy® nominated writing team Irene Sankoff and David Hein.
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My Role
BOOK, MUSIC, LYRICS
Irene Sankoff and David Hein are a Canadian married writing team. Their first show, My Mother’s Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding (based on David’s mother’s true story) was the hit of the Toronto Fringe Festival, and then picked up for a commercial run by Mirvish Productions. It has now played and won best musical awards in the New York Musical Theatre Festival and across North America, with Sankoff and Hein performing in most productions. Come From Away was developed at the Canadian Music Theatre Project and Goodspeed Musicals’ Festival of New Artists, showcased at the NAMT Festival of New Works and enjoyed a record setting world premiere at the La Jolla Playhouse and Seattle Repertory, followed by Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., the Royal Alexandra Theatre in Toronto and the Gander Community Centre Hockey Rink. Come From Away won three 2017 Dora Mavor Moore Awards, four Helen Hayes Awards, five Outer Critics Circle Awards and three Drama Desk Awards including Best Musical. David and Irene were nominated for Tony® Awards for Best Book and Score and won the 2017 Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk awards for Best Book. Irene and David are proud members of the Dramatists Guild and ASCAP. Immeasurable thanks to all of Molly’s People, to everyone who helped us on this journey and to our extraordinary friends from Away and in Newfoundland for inspiring and trusting us to tell your story. @SankoffAndHein
DIRECTOR
Artistic Director, La Jolla Playhouse. Come From Away at La Jolla Playhouse, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Ford’s Theatre. Broadway: Memphis (Tony Award® nomination), Xanadu, Leap of Faith, All Shook Up, Rocky Horror Show (Tony Award® nomination). West End: Memphis. New York: Blown Sideways Through Life, Jeffrey, The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, Valhalla, Regrets Only, Wonder of the World, Communicating Doors, Bunny Bunny, The Night Hank Williams Died, Fires in the Mirror (Lucille Lortel Award). Kennedy Center: Sweeney Todd, Merrily We Roll Along, Lisbon Traviata. La Jolla PLayhouse selected credits: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Darrell Hammond Project, Hollywood, His Girl Friday, Glengarry Glen Ross, Restoration. TV/Film: Lucky Stiff, Jeffrey; “American Playhouse,” PBS: “Blown Sideways through Life.”
MUSICAL STAGING
Choreographer: Broadway: Zhivago, Rocky (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics nomination’s), Rock of Ages; International: Rocky (Germany), Rock of Ages (West End, UK tour, Toronto, Australia ~ Helpmann & Green Room Awards); Opera: Faust (The Met & ENO), Wozzeck (San Diego Opera), Off-Broadway: Rock of Ages, Fat Camp, Frankenstein, Anne Wrecksick; Regional: Come From Away (La Jolla, Seattle Rep), Toxic Avenger, A Christmas Story and Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Peter and the Starcatcher, Zhivago, Private Fittiings (La Jolla); Stratford Shakespeare Festival: Cabaret, Romeo & Juliet; Film and Television: “Mozart in the Jungle,” Wormword, Dear Dumb Diary, Naomiand Ely’s No Kiss List.
MUSIC SUPERVISOR, MUSICAL ARRANGEMENTS
Broadway/National Tour: A Christmas Story. Music Supervisor and Director of New Work at Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre. 5th Avenue: Paint Your Wagon, Carousel, A Room With a View, Secondhand Lions, Aladdin, Vanities, Oklahoma!, On the Town, Sunday in the Park…, Cabaret, Into the Woods, West Side Story, Company, Sweeney Todd and Miss Saigon. Other regional: La Jolla Playhouse, Seattle Repertory Theatre, ACT, TUTS, Ordway, Casa Mañana, Banff Centre for the Arts. University of Michigan graduate. www.eisendrathmusic.com.
SCENIC DESIGN
Broadway: Act One (Tony Award), The Scottsboro Boys (Tony Nomination), Therese Raquin (Tony Nomination), A Bronx Tale, Hand To God, On The Town, Sondheim On Sondheim, …Spelling Bee, LoveMusik, Rock Of Ages, Chaplin, Bronx Bombers, Grace, The Two And Only. Off- Broadway: 100 shows including The Toxic Avenger, The Last Five Years, and Miss Julie. Other Designs: The Seven Deadly Sins (New York City Ballet) and the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. He received a 2007 OBIE Award for sustained excellence.
COSTUME DESIGN
Broadway: Come from Away, Jitney, Amazing Grace, Lucky Guy, The Scottsboro Boys, Finian’s Rainbow, Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, King Hedley II, One Mo’ Time, The Wild Party, Marie Christine, Footloose, The Tempest, Twilight Los Angeles 1992, Angels in America, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, and Jelly’s Last Jam. Ms. James is the Head of Design at the Virginia Commonwealth University Department of Theatre.
LIGHTING DESIGN
Broadway: A Bronx Tale, Hamilton (2016 Tony winner), After Midnight (2014 Tony nom.), How to Succeed… (2011 Tony nom.), West Side Story (2009 Tony nom.), In the Heights (2008 Tony nom.), Jersey Boys (2006 Tony winner), Avenue Q, The Full Monty, Parade and Kiss of the Spider Woman (1993 Tony nom./Olivier and Dora winner). Co-founder/resident lighting designer: Parsons Dance.
SOUND DESIGN
Olivier’s: Memphis and Merrily We Roll Along, Top Hat and End Of The Rainbow. Tony’s: A Little Night Music and End Of The Rainbow.Currently: Bronx Tale, Come From Away on Broadway; Bat Out Of Hell, 42nd Street, Wind In The Willows, In The Heights, in London’s West End; Hunchback Of Notre Dame, Little Mermaid, Singin’ In The Rain worldwide; Sister Act, Beauty & The Beast, Bodyguard, Schikaneder in Europe. 270 other musicals around the world.
ORCHESTRATIONS
Broadway: Orchestrations: Bright Star (Tony nom.), Gigi, First Date, Hugh Jackman Back On Broadway (additional orchestrations); The Addams Family (dance arrangements, additional orchestrations), Memphis(dance arrangements), Million Dollar Quartet (assoc. music supervisor), Ring of Fire (assoc. MD), All Shook Up (MD), Rent (assoc. conductor). Off-Broadway: Bare, Romantic Poetry, Walmartopia, Imperfect Chemistry. Other: Disney’s Descendants (Andrew Lippa’s “Evil Like Me”), 2011 Billboard Music Awards, I Am Harvey Milk, Bull Durham, James and the Giant Peach.
CASTING
Pippa Ailion has cast over 170 productions internationally. She was Resident Associate Director for Jonathan Miller at The Old Vic between 1987 and 1991. Natalie has worked alongside Pippa for 13 years.
West End: Tina The Musical, Dreamgirls, Motown, The Book Of Mormon, Wicked, The Lion King, Sunny Afternoon, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Go-Between, Billy Elliot, Bend It Like Beckham, Memphis, We Will Rock You, Gypsy, Guys and Dolls, Sweeney Todd, Legally Blonde, Spring Awakening and On Your Feet!. UK tour: Funny Girl, Motown, Wicked. Other selected credits: Twelfth Night, Moulin Rouge, Rocketman, One Love: The Bob Marley Musical, Porgy and Bess, Ragtime, Into The Woods, Here Lies Love, American Psycho, Fela!, The Drowsy Chaperone and Blue Man Group.