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style="FONT-FAMILY: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><FONT face=Georgia>‘Come From Away’
offers a kinder, gentler musical</FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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face=Georgia>Bob Abelman</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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face=Georgia>Cleveland Jewish News, The News Herald, The Morning
Journal</FONT></SPAN></I><SPAN
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style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; mso-themecolor: text1">Be warned: There most
certainly will be hugging among strangers at Playhouse Square.</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: "> And random <SPAN style="COLOR: "><FONT color=#252525>acts
of kindness will likely break out as well.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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<P style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Georgia><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; mso-themecolor: text1">The reason is “Come From
Away,”</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT color=#252525> the
touring 2017 Tony Award-winning musical by </FONT></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ">Irene Sankoff and David Hein.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is a <SPAN
style="COLOR: ; mso-themecolor: text1">one-act </SPAN>celebration of the <SPAN
style="COLOR: "><FONT color=#252525>selfless generosity,
</FONT></SPAN>self-deprecating humor<SPAN style="COLOR: "><FONT color=#252525>
and </FONT></SPAN>heroic hospitality<SPAN style="COLOR: "><FONT color=#252525>
displayed by the ordinary citizens of Gander, Newfoundland on September 11,
2001, when they saw their small town’s population double overnight as 38 planes
with 6,579 passengers were forced to land and stay grounded for five days when
the U.S.’s air traffic was restricted due to terrorist
attack.</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></P>
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face=Georgia><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; mso-themecolor: text1">The
musical, which unfolds with great pace and greater sense of purpose under
Christopher Ashley’s direction, offers a running oral history of those days as
seen through the eyes of a dozen locals and a dozen visitors the locals
affectionately refer to as “plane people.” Inspired by real people, these
characters are portrayed by the same 12 versatile cast members (</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ">Kevin Carolan, Harter Clingman, Nick Duckart, Chamblee
Ferguson, Becky Gulsvig, Julie Johnson, Christine Toy Johnson, James Earl Jones
II, Megan McGinnis, Andrew Samonsky, Danielle K. Thomas, and Emily Walton) <SPAN
style="COLOR: ; mso-themecolor: text1">who shift from one to the other and back
again with little more than a change of hat or coat and some terrific
acting.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></P>
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face=Georgia><FONT color=#333333>Every cast member brings high energy, a
powerful voice and an air of authenticity to this production – even after nine
months on the road – and delivers this musical as if it was a true labor of
love.</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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face=Georgia><SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"'>For
more of this review, go to: </SPAN><SPAN
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color=#0000ff>www.clevelandjewishnews.com/columnists/bob_abelman/</FONT></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>