Apple Lands Tony-Winning Musical ‘Come From Away’ as Live

Apple has landed the beforehand introduced reside, filmed model of the Broadway musical “Come From Away,” the manufacturing directed by Tony winner Christopher Ashley, that may air on Apple TV+.

The forged will reunite this May for a efficiency on the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater in New York City, and Entertainment One (eOne) will produce the reside, filmed model of the efficiency. The manufacturing will characteristic forged members from the unique Broadway manufacturing, using over 200 folks, together with members of the Broadway crew, employees and artistic groups. Complete casting will likely be introduced at a later date.

Ashley, who acquired the Tony Award for his course of the Broadway manufacturing, will return to direct, and it’ll characteristic choreography by Kelly Devine and music supervision by Ian Eisendrath.

“Come From Away” tells the true story of seven,000 stranded airline passengers who had been grounded in a small city in Newfoundland following 9/11. Cultures clashed and nerves ran excessive, however uneasiness became belief, music soared into the night time and gratitude grew into enduring friendships.

The authentic e book, music and lyrics had been written by Irene Sankoff and David Hein, who can even function government producers alongside RadicalMedia’s Jon Kamen, Dave Sirulnick and Meredith Bennett. Jennifer Todd and Bill Condon will produce alongside the unique stage producers, Junkyard Dog Productions, in addition to Mark Gordon. Brittany Hapner will function a co-producer. 

Alchemy Production Group will present stage manufacturing and basic administration. RadicalMedia will movie the manufacturing, as they did for the filmed variations of “Hamilton” for Disney+ and “David Byrne’s American Utopia” for HBO.

“Come From Away” gained the Tony for Best Direction of a Musical and was nominated for six further Tony Awards in 2017. It additionally picked up 4 Olivier Awards, 5 Outer Critics Circle Awards and three Drama Desk Awards.

Prior to the beginning of the pandemic, world productions of “Come From Away” had been staged in New York, Toronto, Melbourne, London and for a North American Tour.