Come From Away to stay a little longer
The cast of the Toronto production of now staying until June 30.
Audiences are getting an extra nine weeks to go to Come From Away. Mirvish Productions announced Tuesday that it is extending performances of the Tony Award-winning Canadian musical until June 30.
By then, the production will be at its new home in the Elgin Theatre, where it’s moving from the Royal Alexandra Theatre on Feb. 5.
Written by Canadian couple Irene Sankoff and David Hein, Come From Away tells the true story of some 7,000 passengers stranded in Newfoundland after U.S. airspace was closed on Sept. 11, 2001 and the remarkable bonds they formed with the townspeople who took them in.
The production, which won a Tony for Best Direction of a Musical, is still going strong on Broadway and is also touring North America. The Toronto run, its second here, began in February and has proved so popular that Mirvish has added standing-room tickets to some performances.
Tickets for the new Toronto shows will go on sale Saturday at 9 a.m. at mirvish.com or 416872-1212. tic director Matthew Jocelyn announced his own departure. Brendan Healytook over from Jocelyn in August.
Born in Oakville, Esteves, 40, has spent her arts management career in Toronto. Fittingly, one of her first jobs fresh out of Montreal’s National Theatre School was as a stage manager at Canadian Stage in 2000. She later became company manager and assistant to the artistic producer. Esteves was also producer and co-founder of what would become the Company Theatre and general manager of Nightwood Theatre.
Most recently, Esteves was managing director of Crow’s Theatre and will start at Canadian Stage part-time while transitioning out of Crow’s. Come From Away, The show must go on, even when it means peeing yourself.
In an interview on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen, Canadian star Shania Twain revealed that she had peed herself onstage — multiple times.
Twain, 53, detailed a specific instance in which she peed as she got up from a chair to sing and knocked over a glass of water to hide the puddle.
The singer also revealed that she once ended up in a hotel hallway in Rome naked after she got up to pee and mistook the hallway door for the bathroom door. Finally, some happy news for Frankie Muniz.
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