Come From Away, Toronto return engagement

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 2/28/17 at 10:51am

It's returning to Toronto for the 2017-2018 season. I wonder if this will lead to a North American tour. https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/stage/2017/02/28/come-from-away-returning-to-toronto-for-mirvish-next-season.html

[Clyde15]

Posted: 2/28/17 at 11:04am

They have been billing it as a Sit Down production, but I'm sure there will be a North American Tour. It will be interesting to see how long it's return engagement to Toronto is. 

[ACL2006]

Posted: 2/28/17 at 12:29pm

It doesn't say when it's playing, just that it's part of the next season. But I could definitely see them using the Toronto production to launch the tour.

[littlemouse921]

Posted: 2/28/17 at 1:00pm

I'm not entirely surprised. It was absolute madness trying to get a ticket for it the last time it was here.

[SeattleTraveler]

Posted: 2/28/17 at 2:06pm

Mirvish site and email announcement say "Begins February 13, 2018"

[ACL2006]

Posted: 2/28/17 at 7:02pm

It does appear to be an open run in Toronto. Maybe have it run for 6-9 months then launch the tour?

Posted: 3/2/17 at 1:58am

any chance there can be two casts? I think it's going to run for a long time in NYC. 

[Tag]

Posted: 3/2/17 at 2:09am

^The Toronto production next year will have a separate all Canadian cast.

[sabrelady]

Posted: 3/2/17 at 7:12am

Wonder if they will try to get Louise Pitre for the Bev Bass role?

[Tag]

Posted: 3/27/17 at 12:26pm

Announced today that the 2018 Toronto production will have a 4 week pre-Toronto run in Winnipeg (of all places).

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 3/27/17 at 12:27pm

Here:

http://www.playbill.com/article/come-from-away-sets-dates-in-winnipeg

[Tag]

Posted: 11/30/17 at 2:42pm

Media day performance

[adam.peterson44]

Posted: 11/30/17 at 3:14pm

"Wonder if they will try to get Louise Pitre for the Bev Bass role"

They announced the cast a while ago, and they are all listed at Tag's link.  If i recall the newsletter correctly, I think Lisa Horner is the one playing Bev and others.  

Regarding length of the open-ended run, it is playing in the same (small-ish) theatre where Kinky Boots did their sit-down with the Canadian cast, and that run lasted about a year (11 months, maybe?).

I'd be quite surprised if Come From Away didn't last significantly longer than that.  It sold out its first subscription run a lot faster (before lots of subscribers even saw it for the first time), so there were lots of subscribers who saw it on subscription, wanted to go back and see it again and/or bring their friends, but couldn't because there were no more tickets for the entire run.  I went back to KB a few more times, each with different groups of friends who wanted to see it, and it was never hard to get tickets.   CFA was in such demand that they offered SRO for the first time that i heard about in 11 years of living in Toronto.  So i'd predict at least a 2-year run, maybe even 3 or 4,  but then again, "prediction is hard, especially about the future" (Yogi Berra or Neils Bohr; i've heard both attributions in different sources). 

[Tag]

Posted: 11/30/17 at 3:25pm

They're signed for 14 months (including rehearsals and Winnipeg), which would take them until the end of next year-ish.

Lisa Horner is playing Beulah, with Eliza Jane Scott playing Beverly.

[Tag]

Posted: 1/20/18 at 8:44pm

Here is the opening number (unfortunately interspersed with some stock footage of Canada!).