Came From Away Again

Yesterday was an exhausting but fabulous day spent in the city.  Now before you say - weren't you just there?! - I'd like to go on record as saying yesterday's trip had been planned for months before I decided to go rogue and buy Broadway Backwards tickets for last week.  So while both trips fell within days of each other, that wasn't the plan...

So this planned trip was planned so I could show off Come From Away to my travel friend, Jennifer.  She's always up for theater and we plan lots of trips to NY but she never saw Come From Away when it was here at Ford's.  So all of the love I've been sending it for the last six months, she didn't understand.  After seeing it last September, I've pretty much talked of nothing else.  I love everything about this show, and I'm so happy to say that it seems the critics and audiences do too.

This story of Gander New Foundland on September 11, 2001 is beautiful, and uplifting and just makes me happy every single time I talk about it.  At the time I said I liked it more than Hamilton, and that still holds true.  It's amazing and the cast is too!  So what was Jennifer's verdict, you ask.  While she didn't think it was better than Hamilton she agreed that it was something special.  I even caught her crying - something I did this time around, but not the first time.  Strange!  

The First Female American Captain in History - Beverly Bass

What was even cooler was Beverly Bass - the real life pilot portrayed in the show so masterfully by Jenn Collella, was in the audience yesterday, as well as the real Nick and Diane - a couple that met, and fell in love during that week in Gander and ultimately were married.  It's so fun to see the real people this show portrays fully embracing this production.  And it's also fun to see these people getting the credit and attention they deserve.  

After falling madly back in love with the tiny show that could - we headed to dinner and then decided to try to win tickets to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.  You see, there's a contest on Twitter to upload pictures of yourself in front of the "factory" and each week they pick the best picture, and give that person tickets.  And as you can see, we're totally going to win with the sheer amazingness of our photos, right? ; )