Come From Away
June 26-July 2 Welcome to The Rock.
Performances at 8:15 p.m. nightly
When the world stopped on 9/11, kindness soared in an isolated Canadian town. In Come From Away, a breathtaking musical based on a remarkable true story, 38 commercial flights from around the globe are diverted for days to tiny Gander, Newfoundland. Unfazed by the arrival of nearly 7,000 surprise guests, the residents provide light in a dark time, welcoming the stranded travelers with music, an open bar and hope. A Muny premiere!
Book, Music and Lyrics by Irene Sankoff and David Hein
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Seth Sklar-Heyn
Director
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Jesse Robb
Choreographer
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Evan Roider
Music Director/Conductor
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Edward E. Haynes Jr.
Scenic Designer
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Gail Baldoni
Costume Designer
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Rob Denton
Lighting Designer
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John Shivers
Sound Designer
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David Patridge
Sound Designer
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Kelley Jordan
Wig Designer
Cast
HEIDI BLICKENSTAFF
Beverley & Others
recently finished an acclaimed, yearlong run as Mary Jane in the national tour of Jagged Little Pill, which she also reopened on Broadway after the pandemic. She created the role of Katherine in Freaky Friday for Disney Channel and Disney on Broadway. Other Broadway: Something Rotten! (Bea), The Addams Family (Alice), Disney’s The Little Mermaid (Ursula), The Full Monty and [title of show], a musical Heidi co-created with friends. Other NYC: Most Happy Fella (Cleo) at Encores; Now. Here. This. and [title of show] at the Vineyard Theatre. Favorite regional: Next to Normal (Diana) at Weston Playhouse; First You Dream: The Music of Kander and Ebb at Kennedy Center, Signature Theatre and PBS; Meet John Doe (Ann Mitchell, Helen Hayes Award) at Ford’s Theatre. Duke University grad.
JOHN BOLTON
Nick & Others
made his Muny debut as Will Parker in Oklahoma! and last appeared in St. Louis as Horace Vandergelder in Hello, Dolly! at the Fox. He starred on Broadway in Anastasia, Dames at Sea, A Christmas Story: The Musical, Curtains and How to Succeed … and was in the original Broadway companies of Monty Python’s Spamalot, Contact and Titanic, all three of which won the Tony Award for best musical. He made his Broadway debut alongside Jerry Lewis in Damn Yankees. Mr. Bolton recently toured the country as The Wizard in Wicked. Nominated for Drama Desk, Outer Critics, Lortel, Astaire and Chita Rivera awards, he headlined four NY Pops concerts at Carnegie Hall and was a soloist with the NY Philharmonic at Lincoln Center. TV: The Equalizer, FBI, Girls5Eva, The Blacklist, Evil, Madam Secretary, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Blue Bloods, Elementary, Gossip Girl, Boardwalk Empire, The Good Wife and more.
ASHLEY BROWN
Diane & Others
returns to The Muny, where she has appeared in The Sound of Music (Maria) and Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Marie/Fairy Godmother), among others. Broadway: Originated the title role in Mary Poppins (Outer Critics, Drama League and Drama Desk nominations), Elf (Emily Hobbs), Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Belle). Off-Broadway: How I Learned to Drive. National tours: Mary Poppins (Garland Award), The Sound of Music (Mother Abbess), On the Record. Chicago Lyric: Oklahoma! (Laurey), Show Boat (Magnolia). Encores!: The Golden Apple (Mrs. Juniper/Madame Calypso). Concert: Ragtime (Mother).
ANDRÉA BURNS
Bonnie & Others
Muny: Oklahoma!, Show Boat, Jesus Christ Superstar and Bye Bye Birdie, among others. She was last seen on Broadway in The Notebook as Mother/Nurse Lori. She is a Drama Desk Award winner for her performance as the original Daniela in Broadway’s In the Heights. Also on Broadway: On Your Feet!, The Rose Tattoo, The Nance, Beauty and the Beast, The Full Monty, The Ritz, The Gardens of Anuncia (Lincoln Center). Film: Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story, Akron. TV: Up Here (Hulu), Generation Por Qué (HBO), Blue Bloods, The Equalizer, Jessica Jones, Law & Order: SVU. National tour: Parade (Lucille Frank). Off-Broadway: Smart Blonde (Judy Holliday), original cast of Songs for a New World and Stephen Sondheim’s Saturday Night. A passionate educator and teaching artist, Andréa serves on the acting faculty at Yale University.
TREY DeLUNA
Kevin J. & Others
returns to The Rock after previously playing Kevin J. on the national tour of Come From Away. Regional theatre credits include Legacy of Light (Saint-Lambert/Lewis) at McCarter Theatre in Princeton and Murder on the Orient Express (Colonel Arbuthnot) at Beef & Boards Theatre in Indianapolis. Chicago: Cinderella (Prince) at Marriott Theatre; A Chorus Line (Al DeLuca) at Drury Lane Theatre; Sons of Hollywood (Ramon Novarro) at Windy City Playhouse; Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play (Matt/Scratchy) at Theater Wit; Bull: A Love Story at Paramount Theatre. Represented by Gray Talent Group.
ALAN H. GREEN
Bob & Others
Muny: Sister Act. Broadway: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, School of Rock, Sister Act, Play On! He is featured on those Broadway cast albums, along with The Jerusalem Syndrome, 17 Again, Broadway Bounty Hunter, Freaky Friday, Album and Carols for a Cure. Recent pre-Broadway: The Preacher’s Wife (The Alliance), The Karate Kid (Stages St. Louis), The Griswolds’ Broadway Vacation (Seattle 5th Avenue Theatre). TV: Almost Family, Unforgettable, Murphy Brown, 30 Rock, Peter Pan Live!, Law & Order: SVU, The Guiding Light. Awards: Outstanding lead actor in a musical (Berkie), best performer in a streamed musical (BroadwayWorld). Board member at Barrington Stage. BA in vocal performance from Rice University.
ADAM HELLER
Claude & Others
returns to The Muny after playing Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof, Herbie (opposite the commanding Beth Leavel) in Gypsy, Benjamin Franklin in 1776 and Amos Hart in Chicago (St. Louis Theater Circle Award). Other St. Louis appearances: Follies (Buddy Plummer) and Brighton Beach Memoirs (Jack Jerome), both at The Rep. He has appeared in eight Broadway shows, including Some Like It Hot; It Shoulda Been You; Elf; Caroline, or Change; Victor/Victoria; and Les Misérables. Selected regional credits: Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof at Goodspeed (Connecticut Critics Circle Award), The Flamingo Kid, Falsettos (Hartford Stage), My Name Is Asher Lev (Arden Theatre), The Secret Garden (Denver Center), The Chosen (Barrington Stage). TV: The Good Fight, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, We Crashed, The Bite, Ray Donovan, FBI, FBI: Most Wanted, Law & Order (all), Elementary, Unforgettable, The Sopranos.
ABIGAIL ISOM
Janice & Others
returns home to The Muny for her 13th season. Favorite Muny credits include Annie (Annie, 2009; Star to Be, 2018), Seussical (JoJo), Mary Poppins, Legally Blonde and so many more. Regional: Stages St. Louis, Bay Street Theatre, The Fulton Theatre, Theatre Aspen, North Carolina Theatre and Riverside Theatre.
JACOB KEITH WATSON
Oz & Others
Broadway: Merrily We Roll Along (Mr. Spencer); Carousel (Enoch Snow); Hello, Dolly!; Violet; The Phantom of the Opera; Amélie. Encores!/City Center: Ragtime (Willie Conklin), Wonderful Town, 1776, Mack & Mabel, Oliver. National tour: Chicago (Amos). Regional: Into the Woods (The Baker), Shrek (Shrek), Seussical (Horton), The Music Man, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Benny & Joon. TV/film: Annie Live!, The Gilded Age, Law & Order: SVU.
TAMIKA LAWRENCE
Hannah & Others
Two-time Grammy-winning singer, Drama Desk-nominated actor/writer. Broadway: The Heart of Rock and Roll; Caroline, Or Change; Gettin’ the Band Back Together; Come From Away; Dear Evan Hansen; Beautiful; If/Then; Matilda; The Book of Mormon. Off-Broadway: Drag: The Musical, Black No More (Drama Desk nomination, best actress), Rent, The Tempest, Hercules (The Public Theater). Television: That Damn Michael Che, Modern Love, The Last OG, The Wiz Live!, Vinyl (HBO), Show Me a Hero (HBO), Blue Bloods, Law & Order: SVU. Movies: Mean Girls, Better Nate Than Never, The Greatest Showman, Dear Evan Hansen, White Girl, Breakable You.
JASON TAM
Kevin T. & Others
Broadway: Be More Chill, If/Then, Lysistrata Jones, A Chorus Line, Les Misérables. Off-Broadway: The Jonathan Larson Project, The Ghost of John McCain, The White Chip, KPOP (Lortel Award), Marry Me a Little, Be More Chill, Lysistrata Jones. Regional: Hollywood Bowl, Guthrie Theater, Sacramento Music Circus, Sharon Playhouse, Casa Mañana. TV: Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert, Do No Harm, SVU: Organized Crime, FBI: Most Wanted, Hawaii 5-0, One Life to Live, Beyond the Break. Film: Every Little Step (documentary). BFA, NYU Tisch. Jason serves on the board of directors at Keen Company.
ZOE VONDER HAAR
Beulah & Others
A proud St. Louis actor, Zoe returned home after two years in the first international tour of A Chorus Line and has appeared in over 100 regional productions. Muny favorites: My Fair Lady (Mrs. Higgins), Into the Woods (Jack’s Mother), Kinky Boots (Stage Manager). Stages St. Louis: Gypsy (Mama Rose); Mame (Mame Dennis); Hello, Dolly! (Dolly Levi); The Full Monty (Jeanette); Always … Patsy Cline (Louise); Clue (Mrs. Peacock); Steel Magnolias (Ouiser). The Rep: Sunday in the Park With George (Mother), Follies (Hattie), Urinetown (Ms. Pennywise). Farmers Alley Theatre: It Shoulda’ Been You (Judy), A Doll’s House — Part 2 (Anne Marie), The Cake (Della). Zoe teaches musical theatre at Washington University and is a freelance director/choreographer.
Creative Team
SETH SKLAR-HEYN
Director
Muny: Les Misérables. Seth directed the current London production of The Phantom of the Opera, as well as the 2020 UK/Ireland tour (based on Harold Prince’s original staging). Seth has served as executive producer for Cameron Mackintosh Inc. since 2013, working on all recent Broadway and North American touring productions of Phantom, Miss Saigon, Les Misérables and Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends. Seth directed the Australian premiere of Mackintosh’s new production of Phantom at the Sydney Opera House in 2022 and for Vereinigte Bühnen Wien at the Raimund Theatre in Vienna in 2024 (based on Laurence Connor’s original staging). Previously, Seth directed US tours of Frost/Nixon and Evita (both based on Michael Grandage’s original staging). Additional Broadway and touring credits: Evita, A Little Night Music, Finian’s Rainbow, Mary Stuart, Rock ’n’ Roll, Frost/Nixon, The Coast of Utopia, Good Vibrations, Billy Elliot. Graduate of Vassar College.
JESSE ROBB
Choreographer
Muny: Les Misérables. Broadway: Co-choreographer of Water for Elephants (Chita Rivera Award for Best Choreography and Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle nominations). Jesse was the associate choreographer for the Broadway revival of Miss Saigon. He staged the performance for the Tony Awards broadcast and remounted the show for the subsequent North American tour and Vienna company. Currently, Jesse is the musical staging associate for the North American, South Korean and Japanese companies of Les Misérables. Regionally, Jesse has choreographed at The Muny, The Alliance Theater, The Stratford Festival of Canada, Theatre Calgary, Ogunquit Playhouse, The 5th Avenue Theatre, The Ordway, The Cape Playhouse and The Berkshire Theatre Festival, among others. Water for Elephants will embark on a North American tour in fall 2025.
EVAN ROIDER
Music Director/Conductor
recently completed a four-year tenure as music director/conductor on the national tour of Wicked. Other tour credits include Les Misérables and Cats. New York: Wicked, Candide (Carnegie Hall), Encores! (New York City Center). Regional: Barrington Stage, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, ACT of CT, Tulane Summer Lyric. Evan is an active guest conductor for orchestras across the United States, collaborating with artists such as Michael Feinstein, Pink Martini and The Manhattan Transfer. Recent engagements include Detroit Symphony, Utah Symphony, San Diego Symphony, Pacific Symphony, Fort Worth Symphony, the Louisiana Phil, Sarasota Orchestra, Charlotte Symphony, Tucson Symphony, Toledo Symphony, Greensboro Symphony and the Philly Pops. MM in orchestral conducting from University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music.
Come From Away is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. mtishows.com