As a result of '' My Mother ’s Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding '' success , theatre producer Michael Rubinoff approached Hein and Sankoff with his idea about a show based on Operation Yellow Ribbon in which residents of Gander , Newfoundland , housed 7,000 airline passengers who had been stranded at Gander Airport as a result of the grounding of all North American air flights following the September 11 attacks , which became the musical '' Come from Away ''
September 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
David Hein