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Before he became one half of the hottest new writing team on Broadway, David Hein lived in Ottawa. The Regina-born actor/musician, who co-wrote the hit Canadian musical, Come From Away, was a teenager when he arrived in the nation’s capital with his mother, who had fallen in love with an Ottawa woman .Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.
The show returns to the National Arts Centre for a post-Christmas run, and Hein said his two moms, who still reside in the city, are sure to be in the audience. “T hey’ve seen it a million times, and they hold hands and sing along and are generally embarrassing and wonderful,” he says.Article content Husband-and-wife writing team Irene Sankoff and David Hein wrote Come From Away, one of the hottest Broadway musicals in years. It returns to the NAC for a post-Christmas run. Photo courtesy of Anita Dloniak & AssociatesA: The earliest part of the story is that we actually lived in New York City on 9/11. We were living in a residence called International House that had 700 residents from 110 countries around the world. It was like the world represented in an apartment building.
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