Here is the thing about Come from Away: you really can’t mess it up. The 2015 musical about the 38 planes diverted from the US airspace during 9/11 and the 7,000 people stranded in the bumfuck nowhere town of Gander, Newfoundland, is wonderful. Delightful and oh-so-Canadian strangers opening their doors to these stranded newcomers is a microcosm of hope in the story of a nation made paranoid and afraid by tragedy. It is a musical that never fails to remind me I have a soul.

I cannot help the welling up that happens when I watch Come from Away. The Seattle Repertory Theatre’s new production of the beloved show is no different in that regard, but it has changed a few things. Not all of them are for the better.

Written by Irene Sankoff and David Heinie, Come from Away first premiered at the

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