Interview With COME FROM AWAY Star BECKY GULSVIG

Interview With COME FROM AWAY Star BECKY GULSVIG 1 Broadway belter BECKY GULSVIG returns to Showbiz Chicago to discuss playing Beverley Bass, American Airlines first female Captain, in the national tour of COME FROM AWAY. COME FROM AWAY will run for a limited three-week engagement at Broadway In Chicago’s Cadillac Palace Theatre (151 W. Randolph) from July 30 through August 18, 2019. For tickets visit broadwayinchicago.com.

Broadway belter BECKY GULSVIG returns to Showbiz Chicago to discuss playing Beverley Bass, American Airlines first female Captain, in the national tour of COME FROM AWAY. COME FROM AWAY will run for a limited three-week engagement at Broadway In Chicago’s Cadillac Palace Theatre (151 W. Randolph) from July 30 through August 18, 2019. For tickets visit broadwayinchicago.com.

BECKY GULSVIG (Beverley & Others) is honored beyond words to help tell this story. Broadway: School of Rock (Patty), Legally Blonde The Musical (Original Cast), Hairspray (Amber). 1st National Tours: Legally Blonde (Elle Woods), Beautiful (Cynthia Weil). Off-Broadway: Disenchanted (Cinderella). www.beckygulsvig.com. So much love to my 2 favorite Canadians, Tyler and Hazel. @beckygulsvig

ABOUT COME FROM AWAY

The touring production of COME FROM AWAY stars Kevin Carolan (Disney’s Newsies), Harter Clingman (Peter and The Starcatcher), Nick Duckart (In the Heights), Chamblee Ferguson, Becky Gulsvig (School of Rock the Musical), Julie Johnson (Memphis), Christine Toy Johnson (The Music Man), Chicago actor James Earl Jones II (The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess), Megan McGinnis (Les Misérables), Andrew Samonsky (South Pacific), Danielle K. Thomas (Avenue Q), Emily Walton (August Osage County), Marika Aubrey, Jane Bunting, Michael Brian Dunn, Julie Garnyé, Adam Halpin and Aaron Michael Ray.

With a book, music and lyrics by Tony and Grammy Award nominees Irene Sankoff & David Hein, COME FROM AWAY is directed by Tony Award winner Christopher Ashley (Come From Away), musical staging by two-time Tony nominee   Kelly Devine (Come From Away, Rocky), with music supervision by Grammy nominee Ian Eisendrath(Come From Away), scenic design by Tony Award winner Beowulf Boritt (Act One), costume design by Tony Award nominee Toni-Leslie James (Jelly’s Last Jam), lighting design by two-time Tony Award winner Howell Binkley(Hamilton), sound design by Tony Award nominee Gareth Owen (End of the Rainbow), orchestrations by Tony nominee August Eriksmoen (Bright Star), music arrangements by Grammy nominee Ian Eisendrath and casting by Telsey + Company.

COME FROM AWAY tells the remarkable true story of 7,000 stranded passengers and the small town in Newfoundland that welcomed them. Cultures clashed and nerves ran high, but uneasiness turned into trust, music soared into the night, and gratitude grew into enduring friendships.

ABOUT BROADWAY IN CHICAGO
Broadway In Chicago was created in July 2000 and over the past 19 years has grown to be one of the largest commercial touring homes in the country.  A Nederlander Presentation, Broadway In Chicago lights up the Chicago Theater District entertaining more than 1.7 million people annually in five theatres. Broadway In Chicago presents a full range of entertainment, including musicals and plays, on the stages of five of the finest theatres in Chicago’s Loop including the Cadillac Palace Theatre, CIBC Theatre, James M. Nederlander Theatre, and just off the Magnificent Mile, the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place and presenting Broadway shows at the Auditorium Theatre.