To CBS Tony Award show producers: one word, “Candela.”
This brilliant number, a dazzling distillation of music and dance, is just one of a terrific series of musical set-pieces in the Broadway transfer of Buena Vista Social Club (Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, booking through Jan 4, 2026). The show—unsurprisingly given its rousingly gorgeous aural and visual tableaux—is a bigger treat on a bigger stage, after its 2023/4 off-Broadway engagement at the Atlantic Theater downtown.
Developed and directed by Saheem Ali, with a book by Marco Ramirez and music by the Buena Vista Social Club itself, the musical switches between Havana in the mid-1950s and mid-1990s, with us seeing the legendary Afro-Cuban band in its spry, radical infancy and then being reformed 40 years later to record the songs long left behind. That record would go on to become the best-selling world music album of all time, selling more than 8 million copies worldwide.
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