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Oct 5, 2021 · The North American tour of the 10-time Tony Award-winning Best Musical THE BAND'S VISIT, featuring music and lyrics by Tony and Drama Desk Award®-winner David Yazbek, has hit the road! BWW...
- Durham Performing Arts Center - Durham, NC
- Civic Center of Greater Des Moines - Des Moines, IA
- Tennessee Performing Arts Center - Nashville, TN
- Shea's Performing Arts Center - Buffalo, NY
- Bushnell Center For The Performing Arts - Hartford, Ct
- Dolby Theatre - Hollywood, CA
- Keller Auditorium - Portland, Or
- Golden Gate Theatre - San Francisco, CA
- ASU Gammage - Tempe, AZ
- Civic Theatre - San Diego, CA
Nicole Ackman, BroadwayWorld: Gabay is an accomplished Israeli actor who also played the role of Tewfiq in the film that the musical is based on. It's very exciting to get to see him bring the role to life again onstage. Dacal brings a sultry and confident air to Dina that is perfect for her character. Another standout of the cast is Joshua Grossoa...
DC Felton, BroadwayWorld: The cast of "The Band's Visit" is mesmerizing. They drew the audience in from the top of the show, no matter what size of a role their character had in the show. Leading the show in the role of Sasson Gabayas Tewfiq, the role he originated in the movie "The Band's Visit" and then later joined the Broadway cast as a replace...
Jeffrey Ellis, BroadwayWorld: The musicians and their conductor, Tewfiq (Sasson Gabay warmly recreates onstage the role he first played in the film version that inspired the musical) arrive in the village of Bet Hatikva as the result of miscommunication when Haled's (the band's trumpet player brought to vivid life by Joe Joseph) Egyptian accent doe...
Michael Rabice, BroadwayWorld: Janet Dacal is mesmerizing as Dina. Physically beautiful, with a deadpan dry delivery, Dacal inhabits this fascinating character with elegance. Given Dina's background as a dance, Dacal's every movement is choreographed with subtlety. She houses the orchestra leader Tewfiq and trumpeter Haled for the night and becomes...
Christopher Arnott, The Hartford Courant: This is a special show, one that is not only calm and contemplative but laid back and aggressively humble. David Yazbek creates some lovely emotional songs about loss, delayed dreams and, yes, endless waiting. But he also is happy to bring other composer's melodies onto his turf. There's an amusing Israeli/...
Charles McNulty, The Los Angeles Times: At a time when everyone seems to be so angry, conflicts appear to be irresolvable and communion no longer within reach, "The Band's Visit" is like balm for a tired spirit. The musical touched me deeply when I saw it on Broadwayin 2017, but after such a long period away from the theater, I found the show even ...
Krista Garver, BroadwayWorld: The ensemble, led by Janet Dacal as Dina and Loren Lester(the standby for Tewfiq who went on the night I went), is excellent. There's a lot of white space in the show - silent moments where communication happens via glances and facial expressions. I can see it being tempting to clobber these moments - we're not so used...
Lily Janiak, Datebook: The show, directed by David Cromer, believes in the force of a lonesome melody - how a humble air on the clarinet can lull a squalling infant and soften its squabbling parents, how a remembered strain can summon a lost partner and suggest a yearning, however inchoate, for something new. It believes that no matter how small we...
Herbert Paine, BroadwayWorld: If you've seen the film, you may recall feeling that some of the characters were drawn a little too broadly, yet here, on stage, without any significant changes, they come across as perfectly natural. So, too, does the humor. Reactions a character makes to something spoken are often expressed with a slow, silent burn. ...
E.H. Reiter, BroadwayWorld: Dacal's Dina is lonely, direct, and dreams of leaving the town, even though she knows she never will. She is as changeable as the wind, one minute being warm and welcoming to being cold and confrontational. Gabay's Tewfiq is formal, stiff with both the responsibility as leader of this band and as someone who is haunted b...
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