The producers of the multi-award-winning Come From Away have announced a final extension to the show’s West End run with its last performance at the Phoenix Theatre scheduled for 7 January 2023.
By the time the West End company takes its final bow, the critic and crowd-pleasing production will have played 1,048 performances in London preceded by 47 performances in Dublin. The announcement of the final London performance comes just a few weeks after the producers announced the autumn closure of the Broadway production of which will take its final bow at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre on 2 October this year.
The current London cast of Come From Away features: Jenna Boyd (Beulah and others), James Doherty (Claude and others), Mark Dugdale (Kevin T/Garth and others), Alice Fearn (Beverley/Annette and others), Kate Graham (Diane and others), Robert Hands (Nick/Doug and others), Jonathan Andrew Hume (Kevin J/Ali and others), Gemma Knight Jones (Hannah and others), Kirsty Malpass (Bonnie and others), Harry Morrison (Oz and others), Emma Salvo (Janice and others) and Lejaun Sheppard (Bob and others). The cast also includes Chiara Baronti, Ricardo Castro, Stuart Hickey, Alexander McMorran, Sarah Morrison, Lucy Park, Jennifer Tierney and Matthew Whennell-Clark.
The Come From Away band includes: Alan Berry (musical director/UK musical supervisor), Matt Bashford (whistles/Irish flute/Uillean pipes), Aoife Mairead Ní Bhriain (fiddle), Oli Briant (electric/acoustic guitar), Justin Quinn (acoustic guitars/mandolins/bouzouki), Joey Grant (electric and acoustic bass), Ray Fean (bodhrán/percussion), Ian Whitehead (drums/percussion), Huw Evans (associate musical director), Andrew Barrett for Lionella Music, LLC (electronic music design), Phij Adams (associate keyboard programmer), Ryan Driscoll (music preparation) and David Gallagher (orchestral management).
Inspired by the inspirational true story of the 7,000 stranded air passengers who found refuge in a small Canadian town in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 terror attack, the show that celebrates man’s humanity at a time when the world was horrified by the depths of man’s inhumanity, landed at London’s Phoenix Theatre in late January 2019 following a limited engagement at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin.
A hit with both audiences and the critics, the multi-award-winning musical has celebrated record-breaking runs on Broadway and in Canada and embarked on a 60-city North American tour beginning in Seattle in October 2018. An Australian production opened in Melbourne in July 2019.
Featuring a book, music and lyrics by Irene Sankoff and David Hein, Come From Away is directed by Christopher Ashley, with musical staging by Kelly Devine, music supervision and arrangements by Ian Eisendrath, scenic design by Beowulf Boritt, costume design by Toni-Leslie James, lighting design by Howell Binkley, sound design by Gareth Owen, hair design by David Brian Brown, orchestrations by August Eriksmoen, and casting by Pippa Ailion and Natalie Gallacher.
The creative team also includes: Joel Goldes (dialect coach), Michael Rubinoff (creative consultant), Bob Hallett (Newfoundland music consultant), Shirley Fishman (dramaturg), Tara Overfield Wilkinson (associate director and choreographer UK), Kirsty Malpass (assistant director and choreographer UK), Richard J. Hinds (associate choreographer US), Jenna Carino (associate scenic designer), Devario Simmons (associate costume designer), Ryan O’Gara (associate lighting designer US), Warren Letton (associate lighting designer and programmer UK), Russell Godwin (associate sound designer), Matt Towell (production manager), Chris Marcus and Jonathan Hall (props supervisor), Sabrina Cuniberto (costume supervisor) and Betty Marini (hair and wigs supervisor).
Come From Away was developed at the Canadian Music Theatre Project, by producer Michael Rubinoff (Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario, Canada) and was further developed at Goodspeed Musicals’ Festival of New Artists, in East Haddam, with development support provided by The Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle.
Originally co-produced in 2015 by La Jolla Playhouse and Seattle Repertory Theatre, Come From Away was presented in 2016 by Ford’s Theatre in Washington DC and Mirvish Productions at the Royal Alexandra Theatre in Toronto, Canada, all in partnership with Junkyard Dog Productions.
A Best Musical Award-winner all across North America, Come From Away has won multiple awards including four Olivier Awards, the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical for director Ashley, five Outer Critics Circle Awards, three Drama Desk, four Helen Hayes Awards, six San Diego Critics Circle Awards, and three Toronto Theatre Critics Awards
Angela Thomas
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