2018 TONY AWARD WINNER FOR BEST MUSICAL!
THE BAND'S VISIT is the winner of 10 Tony Awards, making it one of the most Tony-winning musicals in history. It is also a 2019 Grammy Awards winner for Best Musical Theater Album. In this delightfully offbeat story, set in a town that's way off the beaten path, a band of musicians arrive lost, out of the blue. Under the spell of the desert sky, and with beautiful music perfuming the air, the band brings the town to life in unexpected and tantalizing ways. Even the briefest visit can stay with you forever.
With a score that seduces your soul and sweeps you off your feet, and featuring Tony-winning performances and thrillingly talented onstage musicians, THE BAND'S VISIT rejoices in the way music makes us laugh, makes us cry, and ultimately, brings us together.
"The music transports you to a place both exotic and touchingly familiar." - The New York Times
David Cromer directs, with music & lyrics by David Yazbek and book by Itamar Moses.
FINAL BROADWAY PERFORMANCE APRIL 7.
The Band's Visit is understated, probably better described as charming than life-altering, but its scale reinforces the moral themes of the musical itself. Nothing very important happens, no. A boy learns how to talk to girls, a woman recognizes the ways in which she's become stuck, a couple breaks apart and comes together again. Some of these humans who have lost things and who are lost themselves happen to be Arab, and some happen to be Israeli. It's a quiet, beautiful thing The Band's Visit does, and while I wished there had been more something - more emotional payoff, or catharsis - I also recognize that that's sort of the point. A-
Beautiful music, beautiful story, beautiful acting. To quote the Emcee in 'Cabaret': Even the orchestra is beautiful. In this case, it consists of eight actor-musicians, portraying the members of a ceremonial police band from Alexandria, Egypt, who have been invited to play a good will concert in Israel. Except they arrive in the wrong town, a desert backwater where the blasé residents can't be shaken easily out of their arid torpor. Not even by the sudden appearance in their midst of courtly, uniformed fellows from a neighboring if culturally distinct country, bearing clarinets and cellos and the enticing hints of the world beyond.
2016 | Off-Broadway |
Atlantic Theater Company Off-Broadway World Premiere Off-Broadway |
2017 | Broadway |
Original Broadway Production Broadway |
2021 | US Tour |
US Tour US Tour |
Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
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2018 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical | Kai Harada |
2018 | Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance Award | Katrina Lenk |
2018 | Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance Award | Tony Shalhoub |
2018 | Tony Awards | Best Book of a Musical | Itamar Moses |
2018 | Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Musical | David Cromer |
2018 | Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design of a Musical | Tyler Micoleau |
2018 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | The Band's Visit |
2018 | Tony Awards | Best Orchestrations | Jamshied Sharifi |
2018 | Tony Awards | Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre | David Yazbek |
2018 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical | Ari'el Stachel |
2018 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical | Tony Shalhoub |
2018 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical | Katrina Lenk |
2018 | Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design of a Musical | Scott Pask |
2018 | Tony Awards | Best Sound Design of a Musical | Kai Harada |
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