Come From Away

[psocoptera]

Awesome show, neat work with lighting and chairs to evoke a lot of different settings, and costume elements to pick out particular recurring characters from the general ensemble. I didn't particularly notice until pretty late in the game the two broken-off trunks/poles and then I was like OH, that was nicely and subtly done. Powerful stuff pretty much from the get-go - I started to tear up pretty early and was like "uh oh", but it kept a really good balance of getting emotional and then lightening it up a little. It's a heck of a show... if someone had just said "yeah, they're making a new musical about 9/11!" I think the only possible answer would be WHAT THE EVER-LOVING FUCK, but it's coming at it on enough of a slant to really have a story to tell without feeling maudlin or exploitative. "Me and the Sky" is the song that stuck with me and works well even out of context (here's a studio performance by the original actress on YouTube) aaaand now I'm teared up again.