which closed suddenly in December, never got to say a real goodbye to the show.
The cast assembled for these concert presentations of the hit musical penned by Irene Sankoff and David Hein is an almost complete reunion of the Toronto company – featuring Clint Butler and Kate Etienne as well as Steffi DiDomenicantonio, Barbara Fulton, Amir Haidar, Lisa Horner, James Kall, Jeff Madden, Ali Momen, Cory O’Brien, Eliza-Jane Scott and Cailin Stadnyk.
“Not only is this a great opportunity to celebrate the show in Newfoundland and Labrador, but it’s also the opportunity for some closure,” producer Michael Rubinoff, who had the original germ of the idea for the show, told me over the phone after landing in Gander last week., which tells the tell the story of how the people of Gander and surrounding towns sheltered 38 planeloads of people when American airspace was shut down on Sept.