Columbus Zoo great ape honored in award-winning play

POWELL, Ohio (WCMH) -- The Columbus Zoo is honoring the life of one of its great apes whose incredible life story has become part of an award-winning Broadway musical.

The event is known as "Bonobos to Broadway" and is about a bonobo ape named Unga, who was stranded along with 7,000 other passengers in a small town in Canada after their plane was rerouted during the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Unga was on her way to the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium that fateful day but ended up spending five days in the town of Gander...