Stranger Than Fiction, or How 'Come From Away' Composers Irene Sankoff and David Haine Turned Tragedy Into a Timely Message of Community and Kindn
"Stranger than fiction" doesn't even come close to describing the surreal elements of the premise for Come From Away (reviewed here), a musical which chronicles how in the days after 9/11, thousands of airplane passengers whose flights were diverted to Gander, a small town in Newfoundland, found themselves relying on the kindness of strangers who fed and clothed them, but also uplifted them in such a way that it was …