Mirvish announces promising new season with five musicals – The Globe and Mail

The pre-Broadway run of the Newfoundland-set musical Come From Away, the latest spectacle from Quebec circus troupe The 7 Fingers, a thriller from Toronto playwright Nicolas Billon – and Canadian stage legend Fiona Reid as Queen Elizabeth II.

All feature prominently in the 2016-2017 Mirvish Productions lineup announced on Tuesday morning, one that gives fans of Canadian theatre plenty to celebrate.

Commercial producer David Mirvish’s main seven-show subscription series features five musicals in total – starting with the final pre-Broadway stop ofCome From Away, a heart-warming musical from the Toronto-based husband-and-wife team of David Hein and Irene Sankoff, set in Gander after planes from around the world were diverted there on 9/11.

Two West End musicals adapted from movies arrive next in February, 2017:The Bodyguard, based on the 1992 romantic thriller starring Whitney Houston; and Mrs Henderson Presents, adapted from a 2005 Judi Dench movie about a widow who adds nudity to the bill at a London theatre during the Second World War….