Awards

• Winner of Best Book of a Musical, Tony Awards 2018
• Winner of Best Musical, Tony Awards 2018
• Winner of Best Original Score, Tony Awards 2018

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Quietly ravishing... It is unlike any musical I've seen--understated, with a dry wit and a yearning soul. --Adam Green, Vogue There's music in the air at the Barrymore: sweetly lush, jasmine-scented melody which bathes the stage--and the audience--in an evening of enchantment. --The Huffington Post 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 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 deceptively radical jasmine wind blowing through a stuffy room, bringing with it the possibility of change. --Sara Holdren, New York Magazine 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, Wall Street Journal 'Beautiful' is a word we bandy about in the daily pursuit of adjectives to describe the things we love. But even in an entertainment world overrun with superlatives, this is the one you're compelled to use to describe The Band's Visit. --The Washington Post

The best musical of the year has made it to Broadway! --Terry Teachout, The Wall Street Journal There's music in the air at the Barrymore: sweetly lush, jasmine-scented melody which bathes the stage--and the audience--in an evening of enchantment. --The Huffington Post 'Beautiful' is a word we bandy about in the daily pursuit of adjectives to describe the things we love. But even in an entertainment world overrun with superlatives, this is the one you're compelled to use to describe The Band's Visit. --The Washington Post It's time to fall in love again! One of the most ravishing musicals you will ever be seduced by. --Ben Brantley, The New York Times 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. --New York Magazine

It's time to fall in love again! One of the most ravishing musicals you will ever be seduced by. --Ben Brantley New York Times The best musical of the year has made it to Broadway! --Terry Teachout The Wall Street Journal

'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 * 'Quietly ravishing... It is unlike any musical I've seen - understated, with a dry wit and a yearning soul' * Vogue * '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 deceptively radical jasmine wind blowing through a stuffy room, bringing with it the possibility of change' * New York Magazine * 'A small show with a big heart... a wondrous encounter of cultures and personality... a snapshot of open-hearted hospitality and boundless joie de vivre... Each character is perfectly crafted... Even the smaller storylines leave an enormous mark... a well-rounded, stereotype-free, wholesome piece of theatre... It's simply sublime, mandatory viewing for a lesson on empathy, kindness, and the power of music' * Broadway World * 'Entrancing... Every conversation prises a lid off complex emotion, probes at tender places... thrilling' * Guardian * 'A magical, bijou musical to send the soul soaring... has a concentrated Chekhovian depth and melancholy... Droll social comedy combines with exquisite everyday misery... immaculately observed... quiet and simple, yes, but it's precisely that alchemy that makes it special' * Telegraph * 'Irresistible... witty and delightfully odd... utterly charming' * Evening Standard *

There's music in the air at the Barrymore: sweetly lush, jasmine-scented melody which bathes the stage--and the audience--in an evening of enchantment. --The Huffington Post Quietly ravishing... It is unlike any musical I've seen--understated, with a dry wit and a yearning soul. --Adam Green, Vogue 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, Wall Street Journal 'Beautiful' is a word we bandy about in the daily pursuit of adjectives to describe the things we love. But even in an entertainment world overrun with superlatives, this is the one you're compelled to use to describe The Band's Visit. --The Washington Post 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 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 deceptively radical jasmine wind blowing through a stuffy room, bringing with it the possibility of change. --Sara Holdren, New York Magazine

Author Information

David Yazbekis a writer, composer and lyricist. Previous musicals includeThe Full Monty, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. A graduate of BrownUniversity, he received an Emmy Award as part of the writing team on the Late Show with David Letterman. Itamar Moses 's plays include Outrage, Bach at Leipzig, Celebrity Row, The Four of Us, Yellowjackets and Completeness. Previous musicals includeNobody Loves You (with Gaby Alter) and Fortress of Solitude (with Michael Friedman). TV credits include TNT's Men of a Certain Age, HBO's Boardwalk Empire and WGN's Outsiders.

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