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A Great Big World’s Ian Axel is returning to the city that helped launch his music career. This time around, however, Axel will be focused on the challenge of an altered setlist rather than filling seats.

It’s hard to overstate the impact of this book. Wonder has been a best-seller and towns, schools, and the craniofacial community have all embraced the book. Author R.J. Palacio says she’s humbled by the reaction.

“I hope to broaden acceptance for people with any kind of asymmetry in a world that expects us all to be symmetrical,” playwright Sarah Ruhl says of her 2021 memoir Smile.

Like many circus acts, hand-to-trapeze is spectacular but also dangerous. A flyer is catapulted up or dropped down by porters on the floor and one on a trapeze. There is no net or mat underneath the trapeze, because that’s where the floor team stands. “My safety mat becomes my porters, my colleagues,” said Marie-Christine Fournier.

“The rom-com aspect is an easy way for people to get a sort of flavor of what the show might be, but I hope that once they arrive, they’ll be experiencing a whole load of other things as well,” [said Tim Jackson].

“If people enjoy it and they laugh and if they cry and if they feel something, that’s my job done to the highest possible standard,” [said Sam Tutty].

“There is such beauty…great energy…fantastic humor. We’re in rom-com heaven.” The conversation begins at 23:57.