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On Sept. 11, 2001, American Airlines pilot Beverly Bass, the first female captain in the airline\u2019s history, and her crew left Paris for a flight back to Dallas-Fort Worth Airport. Then, as it was with so many others that day, she got some stunning news.<\/p>\n

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A plane had flown into one of the World Trade Centers Twin Towers. \u201cWe assumed it was a small airplane,\u201d Bass said. As did many, myself included. Twenty minutes later came word that a second plane had hit the second tower. Suddenly, the word terrorism was being mentioned from many lips, including those communicating with Bass and her crew, who were still in the air.<\/p>\n

Due to closure of American air space, she and her crew were ordered to divert to Gander International Airport in Gander, Newfoundland in Canada. It was there she would spend the next five days, as would lots of others on other airplanes forced to land there. \u201cSixty seven hundred landed in three hours. The population of Gander was only 9,400,\u201d Bass, now age 74 and living in Argyle with her husband Tom Stawicki, told a comfortable crowd at Casa Manana\u2019s Reid Cabaret Theatre on Tuesday, May 19.<\/p>\n

The presentation, titled \u201cAn Evening With Beverly Bass,\u201d featured her alongside director\/choreographer Eugenio Contenti and stars Chamblee Ferguson, Christina DeCicco (who plays Beverly) and Sharon Wheatley from the touring musical \u201cCome From Away.\u201d Abigail Hofbauer, Director of Exhibits at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, served as moderator.<\/p>\n

\u201cCome From Away\u201d will be at Casa Manana May 29-June 7. It tells the story of Bass\u2019 five days in Gandor and the connection made between her and the almost 7,000 others on the diverted flights and the locals. The show opened on Broadway in 2017 and was nominated for seven Tony Awards, winning one for Best Direction of a Musical for Christopher Ashley. The London West End production received nine Olivier Award nominations and won three, including Best New Musical.<\/p>\n

Bass said she has seen the show 183 times. She recalled the first time seeing it in 2015 at its premiere at the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego. \u201cI didn\u2019t know what they were talking about,\u201d Bass recalled when being invited to the premiere. She had been interviewed a few years earlier by the show\u2019s creators, Irene Sankoff and David Hein on the 10th anniversary of the 9\/11 events, and remembered getting an occasional follow-up call to clarify some points. However, it was news to her that it had been turned into a musical. \u201cWe missed about 75 percent of the first show, we were so overwhelmed,\u201d she said, adding with a chuckle, \u201cBut we\u2019ve seen it a few times since.\u201d<\/p>\n

DeCicco said portraying Bass, especially having her alongside her at this event, was \u201cextremely intimidating and overwhelming in a great way.\u201d \u201cIt gives you a new ground-ness to it. I\u2019m getting tingly thinking about it,\u201d Dedicco said. \u201cI experienced 9\/11 first-hand,\u201d she continued, noting she could see the Twin Towers from her college dorm. \u201cTo see your city crumble and to see it from the perspective of being a New Yorker, and now carrying it to Texas is really special.\u201d<\/p>\n

Contenti said even when he directed the show in Italy, the message was sound. \u201cEven abroad this message was extremely clear to everybody, the ability to heal and what it can do in the darkest of times,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd now, to do it in this theater, which I really love, it\u2019s an honor.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Bass made history when she was promoted to the first female captain for American Airlines in 1986, making more history later that year when she captained the first all-female flight crew. A 1974 TCU graduate, growing up in Florida flying was all she could think about as her aunt would drive her in her Volkswagen and park by a fence near a local airport so they could watch the planes take off.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was one of those kids who always knew what I wanted to do,\u201d Bass said. \u201cI announced when I was 8 years old and I never lost that desire.\u201d She recalled her first professional job as a pilot, flying bodies from Fort Worth to locations for a local mortician. She said the plane was so small there was no room for a casket, just a covered body. \u201cI had to climb over a face to get to my seat,\u201d she said. \u201cI was so proud of that job, to get paid to fly is an incredible feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for becoming the first female captain for AA, she humbly said, \u201cIt was just my turn. As far as being part of history, I never set out to have that happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, it did, and she has done much more than simply accept that fact. For example, she and pilot Stephanie Wallach founded the International Society of Women Airline Pilots, which began as a group of women aviators but later changed into a program providing career support and mentorship to aspiring pilots.<\/p>\n

Bass\u2019 son now works for Austin Executive Airport and her daughter and son-in-law live in Dallas and are both pilots for AA.<\/p>\n

And yes, Bass does plan to see the show again \u2013 and again. She has some advice for those audience members who might wonder about how dark it is, considering it involves 9\/11. \u201cThere are a couple of sad moments, of course, but the way it is written it never allows you to dwell in those times,\u201d she said. \u201cIt forces to something funny or something happy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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For tickets or more information about the show, visit casamana.org.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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