‘Buena Vista Social Club’ Musical Heading to Broadway

New musical Buena Vista Social Club is transferring to Broadway this winter.

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The musical follows a group of musicians from Cuba’s golden age and is inspired by the true story of the artists who came together in 1996 to record the Grammy-Award winning album. Buena Vista Social Club comes to Broadway after a well-reviewed world premiere at the Off-Broadway Atlantic Theater Company in December 2023.

The show features direction by Saheem Ali (Fat Ham) on Broadway, choreography by Patricia Delgado and Justin Peck (( Illinoise ), a book by Marco Ramirez ( The Royale) and a music team led by David Yazbek ( The Band’s Visit ). It is slated to open at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre Feb. 21, before opening March 19.

In 1996, Cuban bandleader Juan de Marcos González and two producers flew to Cuba and recorded an album with a group of musicians who had been well-known in the country in the 1950s. The album, and the assembled group, took off after that and became the subject of a documentary. The musical shows the younger and older versions of the musicians and their trajectory across the years.

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The Broadway company features Natalie Venetia Belcon ( Omara ), Julio Monge ( Compay ), Mel Semé ( Ibrahim ) Jainardo Batista Sterling ( Rubén ), Isa Antonetti ( Young Omara ), Da’von Moody ( Young Compay ), Wesley Wray ( Young Ibrahim ), Leonardo Reyna ( Young Rubén ), Renesito Avich ( Eliades ), Ashley De La Rosa ( Young Haydee ) and Angélica Beliard, Carlos Falú, Héctor Juan Maisonet, Ilda Mason, Marielys Molina, Sophia Ramos.

The musical is produced on Broadway by Orin Wolf, John Styles, Barbara Broccoli, Atlantic Theater Company, Luis Miranda, father to Lin-Manuel Miranda, LaChanze and John Leguizamo with executive producer Allan Williams.

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