Having both read The Day The World Came To Town by Jim DeFede my wife and I had to watch Come From Away on Apple+. I enjoy it more and more every time I see it. This time I caught a couple of lines I hadn’t paid attention to before, they allude to stories that …
Jenn Colella originated the part of Beverley and others for Come From Away as it prepared for Broadway, and when it premiered there. She was also the first to sing Me And The Sky at a performance when its subject Beverley Bass was present. So, she’s the standard that all the other performers of this …
Featuring the West End version of Me And The Sky from Come From Away means choosing two renditions, apparently. Rachel Tucker originated the part, with Alice Fearn taking over. Tucker then joined the Broadway cast as Beverley and others. Fearn has a film-clip style rendition, which provides a showcase vehicle for her vocals. Here’s a …
Like the chairs which are moved briskly and frequently around the stage during Come From Away, the storyline moves deftly from one scene to another, one interaction of characters to another, and swiftly moves between multiple emotional tones during scenes and across scenes. The longest single solo is really an interlude of self-reflection on the …
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