--- title: Ivanka Trump, Justin Trudeau: Play's Creators Send Message description: Creators of the show seen by Ivanka Trump and Justin Trudeau said it's important to "tell a story about people being welcomed off a plane" canonical: https://time.com/4703824/justin-trudeau-ivanka-trump-come-from-away-broadway/ author: Katie Reilly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-16T18:56:48.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T03:53:01.548Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Creators of Play That Ivanka Trump Saw With Justin Trudeau Want to 'Bridge the Divide' og:description: "It feels important to us to tell a story about people being welcomed off a plane" og:url: https://time.com/4703824/justin-trudeau-ivanka-trump-come-from-away-broadway/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6d38551c7e66b5fa/6988beb5cd1bbaa763704569/justin-trudeau-come-from-away-broadway-show-new-york-city-manhattan.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 031617_Justin Trudeau broadway og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Creators of Play That Ivanka Trump Saw With Justin Trudeau Want to 'Bridge the Divide' twitter:description: "It feels important to us to tell a story about people being welcomed off a plane" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6d38551c7e66b5fa/6988beb5cd1bbaa763704569/justin-trudeau-come-from-away-broadway-show-new-york-city-manhattan.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Creators of Play That Ivanka Trump Saw With Justin Trudeau Want to 'Bridge the Divide' > Sponsored content. 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Sophie Gregoire Trudeau, husband Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, "Come From Away" co-writers Irene Sankoff and David Hein pose backstage at the hit musical "Come from Away" on Broadway at The Schoenfeld Theatre on March 15, 2017 in New York City.Bruce Glikas—Getty Images  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Mar 16, 2017 6:56 PM UTC The creators of the [Broadway musical](http://motto.time.com/4703397/justin-trudeau-ivanka-trump-broadway/?iid=sr-link1) attended Wednesday by [Ivanka Trump](http://motto.time.com/4700708/ivanka-trump-child-care-affordable/?iid=sr-link8) and Canadian Prime Minister [Justin Trudeau](http://time.com/4391217/justin-trudeau-canada-day-eh/) said it’s especially important right now to “tell a story about people being welcomed off a plane.” Trudeau brought Trump to see [_Come From Away_](http://time.com/4703321/come-from-away-musical-review/), along with U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley and about 600 others invited by the Canadian consulate general in New York. The musical, which opened Sunday, tells the story of more than 6,500 passengers who were stranded for days in Gander, Newfoundland when their planes were diverted following the 9/11 attacks. The musical takes its name from a Newfoundland tradition of referring to people not born on the island as “Come From Aways.” Canadian husband-and-wife duo David Hein and Irene Sankoff, who were living in New York City on 9/11, began work on the musical years ago. By the time the play premiered in New York, it had taken on new political relevance. The show opened on Broadway this week amid a debate over President Donald Trump’s [revised immigration ban](http://time.com/4697704/trump-travel-ban-legal-challenges/), which sought to restrict travel from six majority-Muslim countries and cited the 9/11 attacks as justification. “We clearly didn’t have a crystal ball. We were telling a story that inspired us, and there’s never a bad time to tell a story about human kindness,” Hein told TIME. “But particularly now, it feels important to us to tell a story about people being welcomed off a plane.” Broadway shows have already stepped into politics this year. The cast of _Hamilton_, which tells the story of American immigrant and founding father Alexander Hamilton, [addressed then Vice President-elect Mike Pence](http://time.com/4577710/hamilton-cast-mike-pence/) when he saw the show in November. “The arts have always been political,” Sankoff said. “We weren’t trying to make any sort of statement with the show. We were trying to report on what happened \[in Newfoundland after 9/11\] because it was so astonishing.” Hein noted that the musical opened to a “bipartisan crowd” in Washington, D.C. last year, and he said everyone in the audience still found something to celebrate. “If there’s any political statement, it’s that,” he said. “It’s that we can find common ground and overcome our differences.” Hein and Sankoff said they were happy to have Ivanka Trump in the audience Wednesday. “Ivanka was the Prime Minister’s guest, and it’s just like the show’s message, we welcome everyone,” Sankoff said. “The story inspires us constantly, and we hope it inspires every audience member,” Hein said. “I hope it does the same for her.” [Trudeau](http://time.com/4652711/justin-trudeau-canada-refugees/), who has pledged to welcome [300,000 immigrants](http://time.com/4552660/canada-immigration-target/) to Canada this year, stands in stark contrast to Trump when it comes to immigration policy. Before the performance Wednesday night, Trudeau praised the close relationship between Canada and the U.S. “The world gets to see what it is to lean on each other and be there for each other through the darkest times,” he said, [according to the New York _Times_](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/15/theater/justin-trudeau-ivanka-trump-broadway-come-from-away.html). Hein said it was powerful to watch Trudeau on Wednesday meet some of the “Come From Aways” and the Newfoundlanders who helped them in the aftermath of 9/11. “There’s a feeling right now of helplessness — how do we actually bridge the divide in this country?” said Hein, who has dual citizenship in the U.S. and Canada. “The show doesn’t give a concrete example for each problem, but it suggests that common denominators might be a start.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4703824/justin-trudeau-ivanka-trump-come-from-away-broadway/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4703824/justin-trudeau-ivanka-trump-come-from-away-broadway/"},"headline":"Creators of Play That Ivanka Trump Saw With Justin Trudeau Want to 'Bridge the Divide'","datePublished":"2017-03-16T18:56:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T03:53:01.548Z","description":"\"It feels important to us to tell a story about people being welcomed off a plane\"","url":"https://time.com/4703824/justin-trudeau-ivanka-trump-come-from-away-broadway/","keywords":["theatre","White House","Canada","Donald Trump","Ivanka Trump","Justin Trudeau","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6d38551c7e66b5fa/6988beb5cd1bbaa763704569/justin-trudeau-come-from-away-broadway-show-new-york-city-manhattan.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Katie Reilly","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6d38551c7e66b5fa/6988beb5cd1bbaa763704569/justin-trudeau-come-from-away-broadway-show-new-york-city-manhattan.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"031617_Justin Trudeau broadway","caption":"Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Visits Broadway","creditText":"Bruce Glikas—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/theatre/","name":"theatre"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4703824/justin-trudeau-ivanka-trump-come-from-away-broadway/","name":"Creators of Play That Ivanka Trump Saw With Justin Trudeau Want to 'Bridge the Divide'"}}]}] ```