{"id":74463,"date":"2017-03-16T00:36:48","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T00:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/justin-trudeau-speaks-to-audience-at-come-from-away.html"},"modified":"2017-03-16T00:36:48","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T00:36:48","slug":"justin-trudeau-speaks-to-audience-at-come-from-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/justin-trudeau-speaks-to-audience-at-come-from-away.html","title":{"rendered":"Justin Trudeau speaks to audience at Come From Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Justin Trudeau surprised the cast and audience at Come From Away on Broadway Wednesday night by taking the stage ahead of the show to speak.<\/p>\n<p>Trudeau\u00a0spoke just before the performance in New York City on Wednesday night. He is in the city to take in the Broadway musical for the first time.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/entertainment\/trudeau-attending-come-from-away-1.4010385\"><strong>Trudeau to attend Canadian musical Come From Away on Broadway<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Written by Canadians David Hein and Irene Sankoff, <em>Come From Away <\/em>tells the stories of the nearly 7,000 grounded travellers after Sept. 11, 2001 who landed in Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador, and the town&#8217;s people who helped them.<\/p>\n<p>The show officially opened Sunday night with much fanfare, after successful runs in previews.<\/p>\n<h2>\u200bRare for head of state of attend Broadway show<\/h2>\n<p>Michael Paulson, the theatre reporter with the New York Times, said the Counsel General of Canada has booked 500 seats for Canadians and friends of Canada in New York for tonight&#8217;s show.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[Trudeau&#8217;s]\u00a0someone who supports refugees, it&#8217;s part of his public policy, and he&#8217;s someone who ran for office celebrating the arts,&#8221; Paulson said.<\/p>\n<p>Paulson said he cannot think of another example of a foreign head of state attending a Broadway show\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[Former] president Obama would come to shows every once in awhile and President Trump used to come to Broadway shows long before he became president,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;ll see much of him given the <a href=\"http:\/\/'Nothing to apologize for:' Hamilton actor on Mike Pence shoutout\">difficult encounter his vice-president<\/a> had at <em>Hamilton.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/newfoundland-labrador\/come-from-away-debut-broadway-1.4021301\"><strong>Emotional standing ovation as Come From Away opens on Broadway<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/newfoundland-labrador\/open-arms-closed-doors-come-from-away-1.4021750\"><strong>Open arms, closed doors: Why Come From Away is striking a chord<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Justin Trudeau surprised the cast and audience at Come From Away on Broadway Wednesday night by taking the stage ahead of the show to speak. Trudeau\u00a0spoke just before the performance in New York City on Wednesday night. He is in the city to take in the Broadway musical for the first time. Trudeau [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-74463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}