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.
Feed your soul: Go see The Band's Visit. Now that this exquisite musical has moved uptown to Broadway - it opened tonight at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre - I can make that recommendation with only one caveat, which is to spring for center orchestra seats, but more about that later. The rare film-to-musical adaptation that enhances the source material, The Band's Visit has stayed with me in the year since it opened off-Broadway at the Atlantic Theater Company, like a dream from which I never wanted to awaken.
Director David Cromer, book writer Itamar Moses, and composer/lyricist David Yazbek are clearly unified in their pursuit of the specific and the humane over the grandiose. Together they've created a play of deep integrity - funny, generous, sweet without sentimentality, poignant without melodrama, and emotionally expansive even as it insists upon its own smallness.
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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