‘Morning Sun’ Off Broadway Review: Edie Falco Stars in a Version of ‘It’s Not a Wonderful Life’ Tarek and his Senegalese-born girlfriend, Zainab, are victims of a scam that has them Airbnb-ing an apartment owned by an economics professor, Walter, who is almost as shocked as his uninvited house guests when he returns to the city after a long absence. Needless to say, you learn much more about playing drums from the musical than you do from the movie. Based on the 2007 Tom McCarthy film of the same title, “The Visitor” opened Wednesday at the Public Theater, and Kwame Kwei-Armah shares credit with Yorkey on the book.ĭespite the subject matter, the jump from screen to the musical stage finds a convenient bridge in McCarthy’s screenplay, which makes the Syrian-born character Tarek an accomplished djembe player. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, better known as ICE. Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey, who brought us “Next to Normal,” a musical about bipolar disorder, have embraced the enormous challenge of putting to song the deportation of a young immigrant without proper documentation. It’s not easy to write a musical about U.S.

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