Diandra Reviews It All

Absolutely Mesmerizing! Watching The Visitor, was like watching Broadway. The 90 minute musical was impactful, concise, and emotional as it glided through a very REAL truth about life: people enter your life to teach you joy, and then they must leave so you can learn it on your own. The hard part is that they can leave us so tragically when they made us feel so exuberantly.

Playing at The Public Theater until December 5, located at 425 Lafayette Street,
David Hyde Pierce’s Walter is an ECON professor/ widower whom is coming to grips with how BORED he is with his life. For him, days are just something that happens repetitively, and, frankly, we all will enter, at least, one instance of our life when we have no dreams for ourselves. Pierce is heartbreaking and magnetizing as a man whom is not self-visualizing/ self-actualizing. Thus, when Ahmad Maksoud’s Tarek and Alysha Deslorieux’s Zainab are like breathes of fresh air because they do dream for themselves, but they do not have the same privileges as Walter to be safe and make them come true.

ICE is the equivalent to a gestapo, and it has always been a racist institution. What director Daniel Sullivan and writers/ composers Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt do so perfectly, is that they introduce the human beings behind the “immigrant.” What is a human being? Well, for one, he is a dreamer like Tarek ;smart, hopeful, charming, and eager to connect with everyone and everything. His love for Zainab, is EQUALLY talented as an artist filled with vigor, strength, and determination to live a life that means fullness to her. Deslorieux exudes strength, but has a voice that is delicate, you can feel the fragility she hides. After all, living life as an “unofficial human,” which is how America treats its undocumented, can be so devastating.

The bond Walter and Tarek form ricochets as his mother, Jacqueline Antaramian’s Mouna, becomes a love interest for Walter as he is held in a detention center. Antaramian is so elegant and warm you INSTANTLY ship her relationship with Walter because you want them to be happy together after suffering so much personal loss. What makes Pierce so wonderful is that you FELT his misery at the musical’s start, and you join him as he begins to be revived again by Mouna. I got emotional seeing him get emotional because you can spend a really long time believing “numbness” is a good enough feeling towards your own life.

Musically, The Visitor is one of the best musicals in New York, and I MEAN THAT! It is a must-see, along with other PHENOMENAL SHOWS like, Six, Trevor, and Caroline or Change. It is impactfully important and a beautiful watch that goes by in 90 minutes like water does a waterfall. Click Here To Buy Tickets.