I'm Bob Boylan from All Songs Considered. The following is the audio from our latest Tiny Desk concert.

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Or go to NPR.org slash Tiny Desk concerts. You're going to do. The Oh, Oh, And then. And the That was a song called Soraya. This is the Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra in

full regalia. They're the stars of a show that's currently on Broadway called

the band's visit. I'm David Yasbeck, I wrote the songs, and we're going to

walk you through a few of these numbers. Let me set up the show a little bit.

It's basically about a group of Egyptian musicians who come to

Israel to play a concert. They end up in the wrong town, in the middle of nowhere, in

the Negev Desert, and they're taken in by some of the

Israeli townspeople and they interact over the course of the evening because

the bus to the right town doesn't leave until the next morning.

So the show is one evening of this interaction between two very different tribes. The show is about hope and faith and silence and music and one of the stars of the show is Katrina Lenk, who is here with us today. I would like to remind Katrina that she is nominated for Tony Ward for

for for best actress in a musical.

She plays Dina, the Israeli cafe owner

who helps out the musicians.

There's a point at the show where she's reminiscing about her childhood growing up in the middle of nowhere in Israel

and how the main cultural delight that she would get was through her mother's

radio and television through Egyptian movies Arabic Arabic music, singers like

Umm Kaltum, and a movie stars like Omar Sharif,

I have set the song up.

It is now up to you. Um, Kultum, and O'Malley andareth came floating on a jasmin wind.

From the west, from the south honey in my ears spice in my mouth

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