Finale

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whole school (Finale from Come from Away)

Splits are highlighted, spoken parts in italics

[All]

One, two

A-one, two, three, four

[Solo]

Welcome to the friends who have come from away

Welcome to the locals who have always said they’d stay

If you’re comin’ from Toledo or you’re comin’ from Taipei

Because we come from everywhere

[ALL]

We all come from away

Welcome to the Rock!

I’m an islander, I am an islander

I’m an islander, I am an islander

I’m an islander, I am an islander

I’m an islander, I am an islander

[Solo]

Welcome to our island with its inlets and its bays

[Solo]

You could keep on heading east but there’s an ocean in the way

[Solo]

Where everything is meant to be but nothing goes as planned

[Solo]

And the drunkest fellas in the room are playin’ in the band

[All]

Welcome to the Rock!

Spoken parts

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Palladium

[BEVERLY, spoken]

With all the new security, kids aren’t even allowed up into the cockpit anymore

Of course, on my retirement flight I brought my whole family into the cockpit on our way back to

Gander

[BOB, spoken]

I came back with the scholarship money we raised, now worth over a million dollars[DERM, spoken]

I bring out the Irish whiskey and we have ourselves a toast

[DIANE, spoken]

Nick and I just couldn't make the long distance relationship work

[NICK, spoken]

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so I moved to Texas, and then I proposed-

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[DIANE, spoken]

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and we honeymooned in Newfoundland!

[KEVIN T, spoken]

My new secretary’s name is Robin

[ROBIN, spoken]

What's up!

[KEVIN T, spoken]

Every year on September 11th, I close my office and give each employee $100 to go and do

random good deeds for strangers

It’s my way of remembering what happened

[HANNAH, spoken]

Beulah and I still keep in touch, she even came to visit me in New York

And I’ll still phone her if I hear a really stupid joke

Beulah

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why are Newfoundlanders terrible at knock knock jokes?

[BEULAH, spoken]

I dunno, Hannah

[HANNAH, spoken]

Well, try it! I’ll be a Newfoundlander

[BEULAH, spoken]

Knock knock!

[HANNAH, spoken]

Come on in

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the door’s open!

[JANICE, spoken]

The donation we are most honoured by just arrived today

[CLAUDE, spoken]

It’s about 4 metres long and 1200 kilograms

[JANICE, spoken]

Newfoundland is the only place outside the United States

Where we share the steel from the World Trade Center

[CLAUDE, spoken]

On the northeast tip of North America

On an island called Newfoundland

There’s an airport

And next to it is a town called GanderTonight we honour what was lost

But we also commemorate what we found

[All, sung]

You are here

At the start of a moment

On the edge of the world where the river meets the sea

Here on the edge of the Atlantic

On an island in between there and here

[Please split ‘there and here’ echo and ‘I’m an islander’, ideally classes on the same part so

they are stood together]

I’m an islander, I am an islander

I’m an islander, I am an islander (There and here)

I’m an islander, I am an islander

I’m an islander, I am an islander (There and here)

I’m an islander, I am an islander

I’m an islander, I am an islander

Welcome to the fog, welcome to the trees

A kiss and a cod and whatever’s in between

To the ones who’ve left: You’re never truly gone

A candle’s in the window and the kettle’s always on

To the coves and the caves and the people from the planes

[Palladium spoken]

[CLAUDE]

Five days...

[BONNIE]

...nineteen animals...

[BEULAH]

...and seven thousand strays!

[ALL

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Same splits as before please]

I’m an islander, I am an islander

(When the sun is setting and it’s darker than before)

I’m an islander, I am an islander

(If you’re hopin’ for a harbour, then you’ll find an open door)

I’m an islander, I am an islander

(In the winter from the water through whatever’s in the way)

I’m an islander, I am...

To the ones who have come from away

We say:Welcome to the –

Welcome to the

Welcome to the

Welcome to the

Welcome to the

Welcome to the

Welcome to the Rock!

Solo

Niko: I left my home in Minnesota

To escape a kind of restlessness

I couldn't shake after the war

And when I stepped off of the train at Pennsylvania Station

I felt that restlessness even more

All of New York City wanted what was coming next

Everyone was looking for what I was looking for

All

Tonight, let's misbehave

And take what happens to the grave

No matter what you crave, the city's reignited

The Great War has been won

The Bacchanalia has begun

Manhattan's come undone and everyone's invited

Where's the party, and can you take me there?

And when the party's over, can you find another party somewhere?

We live for today

We pay off the cops

And today is never over if the party never stops

Where's the party, and can you take me there?

And when the party's over, can you find another party somewhere?

We live for today

We pay off the cops

And when you think the party stops

The party's roaring on

The party's roaring on

Oh, we beat on, and on and on, and on

And on, and on, and on

Solo - spoken

Thomas: The practical thing was to find rooms in Manhattan

Turns out Manhattan's expensive!

So when I heard of a cottage on the grounds of a Long Island Mansion

For 80 bucks a month, I jumped on it!

Solo - sung

Zeynep: A rumour's going round

About a mansion on the Sound

The city's found another John Jacob Astor

Atlin: He opens up his place

Then disappears without a trace

His parties set the pace

Then he takes it faster!

All

Where's the party, and can you take me there?

And when the party's over, can you find another party somewhere?

We live for today

We pay off the cops

And when you think the party stops

The party's roaring on

The party's roaring on

Oh, we beat on, and on, and on, and on

And on, and on, and on

Solo

Scarlett: One evening, I went down to the shoreline

Here is what I'll never forget

There was my neighbour standing in silhouette

Jalal: He was reaching 'cross the water

His arms stretched to the sky and then he was gone

And I was left to wonder why

Yasmin: I turned back to my cottage

What was he reaching for?

Then a letter from my neighbour fell to the floor

Solo - spoken

Brandon: "The honour would be entirely mine

If you would attend my next little party"

Yours, Jay Gatsby”

Solo w ensemble replies

The very first time (oh oh oh oh)

I saw Gatsby's name (oh oh oh!)

If only I knew then

That I would never be the same (be the same)

He hypnotised the city (yeah)

We were drawn to him like moths to a flame (take me there)

Was there some other way (some other way)

This all could've gone (this all could've gone)

Before we crossed the Rubicon? (Whoo!)

He had the world at his feet

(The party's roaring on)

Oh, he made the summer beat

(Oh, we beat) on, and on and on (and on)

(And on, and on, and on)

The party's roaring on (the party's roaring on)

The party's roaring on (the party's roaring on, and on)

(Oh we beat on, and on)

(And on, and on)

And on! (And on)

And on! (And on, and on)

And on!