Why Come From Away is a musical we all need to see right now...

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COS Musical Theatre presents Come From Away at Chequer Mead Theatre, East Grinstead, this October – a musical telling the inspiring true tale of 7,000 stranded passengers and the small Newfoundland town that welcomed them with open arms in the wake of 9/11.

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00:00uh good afternoon lovely to speak again to jay alderton and you are in oz musical theatre

00:08with your wife lizzie in well absolutely one of the best modern musicals it's just so powerful

00:14it's so beautiful it expresses so much that's so important come from away checker mead theatre

00:20in october and it's a musical that you felt you wanted to be part of because of the message behind

00:26isn't it absolutely it's such a it's such a lovely message behind the musical considering the con

00:33um the subject matter being so dark yeah just about finding subject matter it's so it's um a true

00:41story based around the events of 9 11 uh the september 11 attacks in america um a tiny island

00:48called newfoundland in canada um there's a town called gander which has about 9 000 residents in

00:55total and when all the planes were grounded after the attacks happened 38 planes containing 7 000

01:02people landed in gander newfoundland and basically doubled the population overnight so it's the story

01:07it's a true story of the following five days where these people had to care from these passengers who

01:12were scared and out like displaced and didn't know what was happening with the world and it's about

01:18them coming together regardless of who they were where they came from they just cared for them and

01:23it's such a lovely hopeful story of unity and kind of togetherness yeah and you could wish for

01:31for today it's a story about welcoming people in and showing openness and care isn't it but it's

01:37kind of important isn't it to listen to this story now 100 and i i i recommend everyone coming to see

01:44it because you just leave feeling like a warm feeling saying like i understand this i understand how

01:50important it is and especially today like you said it's just so so essential and in the roles that

01:57you're playing you're seeing it from both sides aren't you you're playing one of the passengers

02:00yes but also one of the residents yeah i'm i get to play because it's such a small cast we all play

02:07multiple roles but i get to play um kevin t who's one of the passengers who um he's a los angeles

02:13businessman he kind of he lands in newfoundland with um his boyfriend kevin jay and they're they're

02:20kind of displaced and kevin jay isn't as happy about it but kevin t kind of comes around and sees

02:25how welcoming these people are and kind of has like a different journey and then uh garth who's

02:31one of the bus drivers he's a bit stubborn he's a bit grumpy he you know he's fighting for his workers

02:36to a bit get a better pay and they're on strike and they're not helping anything but then he's like

02:41no you know what we need to help with these people i'm going to do whatever i can to help

02:45these people and get them all together and it's nice seeing kind of both sides of it and playing

02:48both sides of it as well well and it's a powerful story but it's also fabulous fabulous music isn't it

02:54amazing music it's it's very folk inspired but there's a lot of like really touching ballad moments

03:00and there's there's some really powerful vocalists that we've got in the cast um emma who's playing

03:07um annette and um captain bass and people sings the kind of the the belt number of me in the sky

03:15which is kind of the most worst well-known one you'll hear up there and she hits those notes and

03:20you're just like wow like i can't believe i can't i can't believe i'm hearing this and

03:25it's just stunning music it's just all feel-good music brilliant well it sounds superb so it's

03:30cos musical theatre come from away at check and lead theatre and it's the third week of october isn't

03:36it yes uh we're on the 22nd to the 25th of october um it's 7 30 p.m performances but there's a

03:44matinee on the saturday at 2 30 p.m fantastic well good wishes for it hope it goes brilliantly i'm sure

03:50it will good to speak to you jay thank you brilliant thank you very much thank you

03:54thank you

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