The Band's Visit (2017 Broadway)

David Yazbek and Itamar Moses’s 'The Band's Visit' is a quiet, devastatingly beautiful, and deeply human masterpiece that made history as one of the most critically adored productions of the modern era, sweeping ten Tony Awards including the Big Four. Based on the 2007 Israeli film, the understated narrative tracks the Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra, an Egyptian military band who arrives in Israel for a concert but is stranded in a remote, dreary desert town due to a bus station miscommunication. Over a single evening, the musicians are taken in by the local residents, weaving a fluid tapestry of shared loneliness, grief, and quiet romantic connection scored to a haunting, Middle Eastern-infused jazz score. Directed by David Crocker at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, the historic production starred Katrina Lenk, Tony Shalhoub, and Ari'el Stachel.