With no bus until morning and no hotel in sight, these unlikely travelers are taken in by the locals. Winner of 10 Tony Awards®, including Best Musical and 2019 Grammy Awards® nominee. The difference? The Broadway Company of The Band’s VisitPhotos by Matthew Murphy. Beautiful music, beautiful story, beautiful acting.”, “The uncanny virtuosity of Mr. Yazbek’s score feels The actors, Sasson Gabai, Ronit Elkabetz, Saleh Bakri, Khalifa Matour and every other actor whose names I do not know, perform with such truthfulness and tender, intelligent understanding of the human spirit and the joys, regrets, tragedies, memories and dreams that are common to every man everywhere. THE BAND’S VISIT was the winner of 10 Tony Awards, making it one of the most Tony-winning musicals in history. A unique, haunting story of people who seem to be at the point in their lives where they realize they are not living their dreams. It is also a Grammy Award® winner for Best Musical Theater Album. It's a simple premise - a visiting band showing up at the wrong, isolated, windswept location and having to find places to stay for the night - but the engagement of the open-minded Israeli locals with the stiff Egyptian bandsmen is handled beautifully and movingly. While world leaders may use angry rhetoric and accusations, the vast majority of the world wants to learn to get along even with those we may call 'enemies'. It is also a Grammy Award® winner for Best Musical Theater Album. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Definitely worth seeing. The critically acclaimed smash-hit Broadway musical THE BAND’S VISIT is the winner of 10 Tony Awards®, including Best Musical, making it one of the most Tony-winning musicals in history. Well acted for the most part. THE BAND'S VISIT is the winner of 10 Tony Awards including Best Musical. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Brilliant in its observations, performances, direction, cinematography, editing and soundtrack, and the screenplay, dare I say "above all", had me gasping with appreciation and admiration; a work of genius. It is also a Grammy Award® winner for Best Musical Theater Album. An Egyptian Band comes to Israel to play at the opening of an Arab Cultural Center but winds up in the wrong destination. The musical opened on Broadway at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in November 2017, after its off-Broadway premiere at the Atlantic Theater Company in December 2016. One of the few funny and endearing films showing how an Arabic bigband, lost in Israel, is met by the local young community. The picture of the eight of them in their formal powder blue uniforms against the stark desert landscape says it all. Now on tour across North America! Really good. We enjoyed the movie, but movie not nearly as enjoyable as the musical. The critically acclaimed smash-hit Broadway musical THE BAND'S VISIT is the winner of 10 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, making it one of the most Tony-winning musicals in history. The Grammy Award® Winning Original Broadway Cast Recording is now available from Ghostlight Records. It is an international co-production between Israel, France and the United States. They spend less than 24 hours in the village but form interesting relationships and discover things about themselves. if you're looking for action keep moving but if your heart and mind are longing for a balm of honey to your worries for humanity, get cozy witcher sef and enjoy 'the band's visit'. The critically acclaimed smash-hit Broadway musical The Band’s Visit is the winner of 10 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, making it one of the most Tony-winning musicals in history. Then, I watched it for a second time, and fell in love with it. Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2020. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 5, 2018. I cannot find words to describe all the emotional sensations I experienced. Saw @TheBandsVisit last night & am still under its spell. It is funny and poignant. Excellent film and well worth the rather high price. Now on tour across North America! Winner of 10 Tony Awards®, including Best Musical and 2019 Grammy Awards® nominee. It is also a Grammy Award® winner for Best Musical Theater Album. this is the movie the award-winning broadway musical of same name was based upon and of which you can see clips on the utubes (esp the omar shariff song WOW). The Band’s Visit . Movie did help us understand that the wooden performance of the Broadway male lead (it was not Tony Shalhoub the night we saw it) was intended. The Band's Visit is a stage musical with music and lyrics by David Yazbek and a book by Itamar Moses, based on the 2007 Israeli film of the same name. One to come back to for its nuances again and again. 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. It is also a Grammy Award® winner for Best Musical Theater Album. The critically acclaimed smash-hit Broadway musical THE BAND'S VISIT is the winner of 10 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, making it one of the most Tony-winning musicals in history. "The Band's Visit" has clocked up over 35 International awards and having enjoyed every rather lovely and quirky minute of it - I can easily see why it's captured the hearts of so many. THE BAND'S VISITRUSH TICKETS $39 Rush seats may be available in selected areas of the theatre priced at only$39each (a $5 per ticket service charge will be applied for online sales). Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2018. fun little movie. NO. 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