What happens when a lovely, low-key musical based on an offbeat Israeli film moves from Off-Broadway to a Broadway theater five times its size?
You get the same widely acclaimed show – with David Yazbek’s exquisite Middle Eastern score and delicious lyrics, a spot-on cast (12 of 14 the same) led by the incomparable Tony Shalhoub and Katrina Lenk, a story adapted by Itamar Moses that’s both doleful and droll – plus better acoustics, and better accents.
Full review on DC Theatre Scene
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In The Band’s Visit, an Egyptian police band that’s lost asks for directions from a bored café proprietor, Dina (Katrina Lenk) “There is not Arab Center here,” Dina replied. “Not Israeli Culture, not Arab, not culture at all.” And then she Lenk launched into “Welcome to Nowhere” Opened in November
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