Broadway returns to Orpheum stage with ‘Come From Away’
Airline passengers find cots set up in a Gambo shelter after they are stranded in Newfoundland by the 9/11 attacks. “Come From Away” dramatizes this story. (Courtesy Nick Marson)
Broadway theater has returned to the Orpheum, starting with “Come From Away,” a musical production about airplane passengers diverted to a small town in Newfoundland following the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
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Julia Baker
A lifelong Memphian, Julia Baker graduated from the University of Memphis in 2021. Other publications and organizations she has written for include Chalkbeat, Memphis Flyer, Memphis Parent magazine and Memphis magazine.
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