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Three Tall Women

February 27, 2018 by Foolish Mortals

WINNER OF TWO TONY AWARDS FOR:

1. Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play: Glenda Jackson

2. Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play: Laurie Metcalf

TWO-TIME DRAMA DESK AWARD WINNER FOR:

1. Outstanding Actress in a Play: Glenda Jackson

2. The Hudson Scenic Studio Award for Outstanding Set Design of a Play: Miriam Buether

DRAMA LEAGUE AWARD WINNER FOR:

Distinguished Performance Award: Glenda Jackson

TWO-TIME OUTER CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER FOR:

1. Outstanding Actress in a Play: Glenda Jackson

2. Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play: Laurie Metcalf

Edward Albee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, Three Tall Women, made its Broadway Premiere on March 29, 2018 to incredible reviews!

“THREE TALL WOMEN IS ESSENTIAL VIEWING. Glenda Jackson exudes uncompromising, defiant strength in every role.” –The New York Times
“5 STARS. BROADWAY IS FORTUNATE TO DELIVER ONE EVENT A SEASON, AND JACKSON IS THAT EVENT FOR 2017-2018.” –TimeOut New York
“ELECTRIFYING AND HEART-RENDING. It is with ‘Three Tall Women’ that Edward Albee makes his triumphant return.” –The Wall Street Journal
“STAGE ACTING DOESN’T GET ANY BETTER THAN GLENDA JACKSON’S PERFORMANCE as the autocratic nonagenarian in Edward Albee’s ‘Three Tall Women.'” –The Hollywood Reporter
“ONE OF THE HAPPIEST EVENTS IN AMERICAN PLAYWRITING.” –The Village Voice
“THIS REVIVAL OF THREE TALL WOMEN REALLY IS A STAGGERING EXAMPLE OF PRECISELY WHAT A DRAMATIC ACTOR DOES ONSTAGE. ACTUALLY THREE EXAMPLES.” –Vulture
“LAURIE METCALF IS HAVING HER BEST YEAR EVER, AND IT’S NOT OVER YET.” –The Washington Post

Glenda Jackson, the two-time Academy Award winner made her long-awaited return to Broadway alongside three-time Emmy, 2017 Tony Award winner, and this season’s Academy Award Nominee, Laurie Metcalf, and Tony Nominee Alison Pill. Three Tall Women won the New York Drama Critics’ Circle and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Play. Two-time Tony winner Joe Mantello (Wicked) directs.

As an imperious acerbic old woman lies dying, she is tended by two other women and visited by a young man. Albee’s frank dialogue about everything from incontinence to infidelity portrays aging without sentimentality. His scenes are charged with wit, pain, and laughter, and his observations tell us about forgiveness, reconciliation, and our own fates. But it is his probing portrait of the three women that reveals Albee’s genius. Separate characters on stage in the first act, yet actually the same “everywoman” at different ages in the second act, these “tall women” lay bare the truths of our lives—how we live, how we love, what we settle for, and how we die.

Performances at the JOHN GOLDEN THEATRE, 252 West 45th Street, New York City. For more information and to purchase tickets, please click here.

The Band’s Visit

July 20, 2017 by FMP

WINNER OF TEN 2018 TONY AWARDS INCLUDING:

1. Best Musical

2. Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical: Tony Shalhoub

3. Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical: Katrina Lenk

4. Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical: Ari’el Stachel

5. Best Book of a Musical: Itamar Moses

6. Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre: David Yazbek

7. Best Scenic Design of a Musical: Scott Pask

8. Best Lighting Design of a Musical: Tyler Micoleau

9. Best Sound Design of a Musical: Kai Harada

10. Best Orchestrations: Jamshied Sharifi

DRAMA DESK AWARD WINNER FOR:

Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical: Kai Harada

“The Band’s Visit” accepting the Tony Award for Best Musical at the 72nd Annual Tony Awards ceremony.

DRAMA LEAGUE AWARD WINNER FOR:

Outstanding Production of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Musical

The hit Broadway musical, starring Tony Shalhoub and Katrina Lenk, opened on November 9, 2017 to amazing reviews.

The New York Times Critics’ Pick

“ONE OF THE MOST RAVISHING MUSICALS YOU WILL EVER BE SEDUCED BY OPENED ON THURSDAY NIGHT AT THE BARRYMORE THEATER. IT IS CALLED ‘THE BAND’S VISIT.’ Directed by DAVID CROMER with an inspired inventiveness that never calls attention to itself, ‘The Band’s Visit’ flows with the grave and joyful insistence of life itself. All it asks is that you be quiet enough to hear the music in the murmurs, whispers and silences of human existence at its most mundane – and transcendent.” – Ben Brantley, The New York Times
“DAVID YAZBEK’s melody matches the exquisitely

Wendy Federman with Multi-Emmy and Tony Award Winner Tony Shalhoub.

uncertain certainty of the lyrics. That ‘something different’ is the heart-clutching sensation that throbs throughout this miraculous show, as precise as it is elusive, and all the more poignant for being both.” – Ben Brantley, The New York Times
“KATRINA LENK, who mixes languidly feline sensuality with knowing self-deprecation, IS MESMERIZING” -Adam Fedlman, TimeOut New York
“TONY SHALHOUB HAS POSSIBLY NEVER BEEN BETTER.” – David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter
“THE BEST MUSICAL OF THE YEAR HAS MADE IT TO BROADWAY. ‘The Band’s Visit’; shows that the great American art form (give or take jazz) is still full of life when practiced by artists who trust the taste and intelligence of their audiences.” – Terry Teachout, The Wall Street Journal
“Directed here with A MAESTRO’S VIRTUOSIC VISION BY DAVID CROMER, ‘THE BAND’S VISIT’ IS GENTLE, SOULFUL, TUNEFUL – and THE BEST NEW MUSICAL ON BROADWAY. BEAUTIFUL MUSIC, BEAUTIFUL STORY, BEAUTIFUL ACTING.” – Peter Marks, Washington Post
“THIS IS A REMARKABLE AND BOUNDLESSLY COMPASSIONATE AND HUMANISTIC PIECE OF THEATER.” – Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune
“ITAMAR MOSES, one of our best playwrights, has

Wendy Federman with the Tony Award winning Katrina Lenk.

translated the screenplay of ‘The Band’s Visit’ into musical-comedy terms with quiet skill. Mr. Yazbek’s songs are a savory multicultural mixture of Egyptian pop music, Israeli klezmer and cool American jazz, one so fresh-sounding that you can scarcely believe they’re being sung on a Broadway stage. His lyrics are just as good.” – Terry Teachout, The Wall Street Journal
“A BEAUTIFUL PIECE OF THEATER. In both form and content, the show gave me more hope for what Broadway might welcome, might foster, might become than any musical in a long time.” – Sara Holdren, New York Magazine
“FEED YOUR SOUL: GO SEE ‘THE BAND’S VISIT.’” – Jeremy Gerard, Deadline
“Moses and Yazbek have created something rare, grown-up and special. The book packs warmth, wit and economy. Irresistible songs blend strains of Arabic and Israeli melodies and flecks of jazz. Onstage musicians showcase the music to the max.” – Joe Dziemianowicz, New York Daily News
“★★★★ FOUR STARS! ‘The Band’s Visit,’ which feels even richer on Broadway than in its award-winning 2016 run at the Atlantic, is unconventionally wise. It is rare to encounter a show that has such a graceful sense of time.” -Adam Feldman, Time Out New York
“★★★★ FOUR STARS! An urgent, realistic and relatable portrait of vulnerable individuals from different cultures who are able to make an unexpected human connection. I doubt that a better written new musical will come to Broadway” -Matt Windman, AM New York

With a book by Itamar Moses and a score by David Yazbek, The Band’s Visit is based on Eran Kolirin’s 2007 film about an Egyptian Police Band that arrives in Israel to play a concert. After a mix-up at the border, they are sent to a remote village in the middle of the desert. With no bus until morning and no hotel in sight, these unlikely travelers are taken in by the locals. Under the spell of the desert sky, their lives become intertwined in the most unexpected ways. The Band’s Visit celebrates the deeply human ways music, longing and laughter can connect us all.

Time Magazine ranked The Band’s Visit among “The Top Plays and Musicals of 2017!” See the article by clicking here.

The Band’s Visit won TOP HONORS for Best Musical at the 2017 Lucille Lortel Awards, Outer Critics Circle Awards, New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards and Obie Awards.

THE BAND’S VISIT, starts a North American National Tour in the Spring of 2019.

Tickets now on sale. For more information and to purchase tickets, please click here.