When a group of Egyptians are marooned in a small Israeli town, they need to find a connection that crosses borders: geographical and cultural. In “The Band’s Visit,” that connection — as it so often is — is music.

“In this play, you are taking two groups of people, two very different groups, two groups from different cultures, religions, and countries,” actor Jared Troilo told the Herald. “You are putting them in the same room and they aren’t discussing politics. They aren’t discussing religion. They aren’t discussing where they differ. They are coming together through their relationships, and shared experiences, and most of all through music.”

Troilo plays Itzik, one of the kind residents of the Israeli village who takes in some of the lost members of an Egyptian band of musicians. A language mix-up at a bus terminal has landed the band in a town too small to accommodate them so the residents must open their houses, and minds.

Both a musical out of time and deeply needed today, “The Band’s Visit” — now through Dec. 17 at the Huntington — is an intimate piece that has found huge success among the blockbusters of modern Broadway. At the 2018 Tonys, the musical competed with blunt and broad big-budget shows such as “Escape to Margaritaville,” “Mean Girls,” and “SpongeBob SquarePants.” “The Band’s Visit” crushed all comers winning an astounding 10 Tonys plus a Grammy and an Emmy.

“It’s not your ‘jazz hands’ musical,” said Troilo, a Massachusetts native who got his musical theater degree at the Boston Conservatory. “It is a musical, but it feels more like a play with music. The music is part of the story. This is how the characters bond, this is how they relate to each other through their differences. It’s through their mutual love and admiration for music… so it doesn’t ever feel like you are stepping into a big Broadway musical. Instead it feels like you are living in the world with them and experiencing music with them.”

Itzik is a welcome role for Troilo. The character is a dreamer who is down on his luck, trying to work through his marriage and learning to become a father. As a father himself, he found a great tenderness in his character’s solo song,

“There’s something about singing to your (infant) child knowing they can’t talk back to you,” he said. “It allows Itzik to open up and really share what’s going on inside of him, and unfortunately he’s just lost. He’s doing his best to save his family, to keep everybody together.”

Through universal moments like this “The Band’s Visit” proves that it’s less a reflection of history and more a lesson about our common humanity.

“Of course there’s a lot happening underneath it all, a lot happening in the world that’s subtextual to the whole show, but the play itself never goes there,” Troilo said. “In that way the play is very aspirational. This is what can be. It’s different people getting along, enjoying music, enjoying food. It’s what the world can be and is sometimes, even if we don’t hear about it.”

For tickets and details, visit huntingtontheatre.org