Come from Away

Come from Away (2021) is the filmed stage production you can watch online on iFILM — a Broadway musical captured live in front of an audience rather than reshot as a movie. What the theatre crowd saw that night is exactly what reaches your screen.

It dramatizes a real moment: the morning North American airspace shut down and thirty-eight planes were diverted to tiny Gander, Newfoundland. Almost seven thousand stranded travelers from around the globe suddenly outnumbered the locals who took them in. Over a few raw days the townspeople open their homes, schools and kitchens, and strangers turn into neighbors. A cast of twelve plays dozens of parts at once, the songs come from Irene Sankoff and David Hein, and Christopher Ashley's staging earned the Tony for Best Direction of a Musical. It's a warm, fast-moving show about kindness in the middle of disaster, and it lands even if musicals usually aren't your thing. Stream Come from Away (2021) online on iFILM.