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This edition: "The Band's Visit" Creatives


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Original tape date: November 3, 2017. First aired: December 11, 2017.

“The Band's Visit” songwriter David Yazbek and book writer Itamar Moses discuss their collaboration on the celebrated new musical based on a popular 2007 Israeli film about an Egyptian police band stranded in a small town in the Negev Desert.  Co-hosted by Jesse Green of The New York Times with producer Susan Haskins.

Guest List

Jesse Green Guest Co-Host; Co-Chief Theater Critic, The New York Times

Itamar Moses Librettist, “The Band’s Visit”

David Yazbek Composer, “The Band’s Visit”

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