ABOUT THE MUSICAL


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In 2013, Ritesh Batra’s The Lunchbox — winner of the Grand Rail d’Or at Cannes — introduced audiences to an extraordinary love story built on an ordinary mistake: a home-cooked lunch, packed for one man, delivered to another.


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Photo: Nasir Ali Panjwani
Following the musical’s record-breaking world premiere at Berkeley Repertory Theatre this spring, The Lunchbox is on the move. Be the first to know where it lands next…


Photo: Kevin Berne
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It’s the same misdelivered lunchbox — but now the story unfolds in song. Ila and Saajan fall for each other one note at a time, and the musical gives this slow-burn romance a heartbeat the screen never had: original music, a Mumbai street towering over the audience, choreography that says what the letters can’t.


Photo: Kevin Berne
Photo: Nasir Ali Panjwani


Photo: Kevin Berne
Photo: Nasir Ali Panjwani


Photo: Kevin Berne
Photo: Nasir Ali Panjwani


Photo: Kevin Berne
Photo: Nasir Ali Panjwani
More than a decade later, Batra has returned to the story, adapting his screenplay into a stage musical with music by Daniel & Patrick Lazour and direction by Tony Award-winner Rachel Chavkin.


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