The Band's Visit (Touring) Tickets

Wow! Not what I expected and a very pleasant surprise!

The band music was great. The actors were difficult to understand with the accents and the acoustics at the Orpheum (even though we were on the main floor)! Given the Tonys for this production if fell way short of my expectations. The characters were never fully developed or understand given the above challenges. I’m giving it 3 stars mainly for the great band music.

This was the worst show i've ever been to. It started off sort of funny and just became mind numbingly boring the rest of the show. They overdid the thickness of their accents so you could barely understand a word of English they were speaking. My friend actually slept through the whole show and I was fighting sleep too. There was no intermission to afford us the means of politely escaping. I will never recommend this show to anyone unless they want to pay for a coma.

Had a hard time hearing the dialog and we were on the main floor. Singing was very good. I guess I was expecting more numbers that featured the very talented musicians in the cast.

I go to every Broadway show that comes to the cities and almost every concert. This was a total waste of time and money. I left after 60 minutes, and I should’ve left before then, I kept hoping it would improve. I’m at six other people in the lobby who were leaving the same time I was.Slow-moving, boring, cannot believe it won Tony awards

Low volume, hard to understand phony accents , convuluted story lines made for a nice nap. The sets were mildly interesting but the only small redeeming quality

Given all of the awards that The Band’s Visit received, I was really looking forward to seeing it. Such a disappointment. It was close to being boring, little energy from the performers, and the music from the Band itself was not very interesting.

Saw The Band's Visit agsin, this time in Louisville. Terrific music and performances and story. Kept thinking after each number what a great show this is.

The idea of "The Band" was great. But it was so hard to decipher the purposeful (and appropriate, I suppose) accents of the actors that I lost more than half of the dialogue. And with that much missing, I was left to guess at what was going on. So none of the scenes were compelling. Maybe it was the Milwaukee Marcus Center's sound system. Maybe it was my 68 year old ears. But I have enjoyed many shows there in the past several years, and this was not one of them.

I’d have to say the best part of the show was the music. I thought the story line was a little lame, and it was hard to understand the characters with their accents. They did a great job, I just had a hard time understanding all the dialog.

Venue is tired. Seemed like venue was too large for the show.

The Band’s Visit is exquisite. The music is unlike anything I’ve ever heard in a Broadway show. At least three numbers were so beautiful in melody and lyrics and emotion that I had tears. The story is deceptively “unimportant” — eight members of an Egyptian band are unexpectedly stranded in an isolated Israeli town. The townspeople ignore political implications and provide hospitality. Though they have language and cultural barriers, the guests and hosts connect through the universal language of music. By the end, it feels like everyone is a little bit changed. There is joy, loneliness, longing, and humanity. Truly, as one of the songs says, Something Different. I would like to visit The Band’s Visit again and again.

We were charmed and transported. One of the best musicals we've seen. We did not want it to end!

Unique musical was so much more than your normal broadway musical. The minimalist set design worked very well. The cast was superb, but due to the bad acoustics in Chrysler Hall, it was sometimes difficult to understand the accented dialogue.

I attended the show with a friend. We liked the music as it was different from the usual musical music. We actually would have liked to hear more of that music during the play. Sometimes the actors were difficult to understand. But we realize that in foreign places communication is difficult.