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Winner of the 2018 Tony Award for Best Musical After a mix-up at the border, Egypt's Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra, bound for the cosmopolitan Israeli city Petah Tikvah, is stranded in a small desert town. With no transportation until the next day, the band is taken in by the locals. By morning, the lives of visitors and hosts are forever altered. Itamar Moses and David Yazbek's stunning musical adaptation of the 2007 acclaimed film finds transcendence in the surprising and tender relationships that are forged between strangers under the desert sky.
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"It's time to fall in love again… One of the most ravishing musicals you will ever be seduced by… The Band's Visit is a Broadway rarity seldom found these days outside of the canon of Stephen Sondheim… Miraculous."
Ben Brantley, New York Times
"A tender comedy of international manners… If you've been feeling oppressed of late by the relentless rigors of reality, I can't think of a better cure for what ails you than the sweet hopefulness of The Band's Visit. It's downright therapeutic."
Terry Teachout, The Wall Street Journal
"Book writer Itamar Moses and composer/lyricist David Yazbek have created a play of deep integrity-funny, generous, sweet without sentimentality, poignant without melodrama, and emotionally expansive… The Band's Visit is quietly modeling real theatrical and musical courage… It gave me more hope for what Broadway might welcome, might foster, might become than any musical in a long time. It's a dece
Sara Holdren, New York Magazine