Was it restraint or oversight that resulted in Buena Vista Social Club taking nearly 30 years to reach Broadway? The project began as a 1997 album, a surprise smash that introduced a supergroup of vet...
03.20.2025 Theguardian.comE xuberant and unpretentious are not adjectives normally applied to the films of Wim Wenders, but they define his wonderful new movie, this documentary about popular Cuban music, the 'son de Cuba'. Th...
03.20.2025 Theguardian.com“Buena Vista Social Club, ” the new musical that opened Wednesday night at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, is practically a jumbo jet to Havana. So transportive are the intoxicating Cuban music and spi...
03.20.2025 Nypost.com“I’m not going to retire in any way, ” she said. In the Broadway version, Portuondo is the star singer of the show. The distinctive details that have come to define her as a legendary artist are captu...
03.19.2025 Nbcnews.com and 2 sitesAs a band and a brand, “Buena Vista Social Club” has been gold from the get-go: It was a hit Grammy-winning album that in 1996 had brought together an impromptu group of old-time Cuban musicians into a vintage 1950s recording studio in Havana. The album’s popularity turned some long-forgotten musicians into stars, which led to international tours, an acclaimed 1999 documentary, and then another film 18 years later. In 2023, it became an exciting Off-Broadway musical. “Buena Vista Social Club” is...
03.19.2025 Playbill.com and 1 sitesJukebox Broadway musicals need conflict and the evil suits at Capitol Records are a perennial villain for artists who just want to be themselves. In “ Buena Vista Social Club , ” the venerable label e...
03.20.2025 chicagotribune.com , nydailynews.comOfficially, playwright and screenwriter Marco Ramirez began working on the Broadway musical “Buena Vista Social Club” a little more than six years ago. But if you start the clock when the Cuban superg...
03.23.2025 Latimes.com and 1 sitesThe energetic Broadway musical Buena Vista Social Club , which opened on Wednesday night , has been praised for its representation of the rich cultural history of Cuban music. The name “Buena Vista So...
03.20.2025 Uinterview.comBuena Vista Social Club, the musical telling the story behind the landmark Afro-Cuban jazz album of the same name, officially opened at Broadway's Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre on March 19. A tale of surv...
03.20.2025 Broadway.com