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A lawsuit in Los Angeles Federal Court seeks to ban the hit Broadway musical “The Buena Vista Social Club” from using the ...
First it was a club in pre-Castro Havana. Then, in 1996, a group of virtuosos from its heyday adopted the name for themselves ...
Buena Vista Social Club” opened Wednesday at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, where Justin Peck's splendid choreography continues to erupt.
HAVANA — In a rattan chair with a large oval backrest, almost like a throne, the 94-year-old “Diva” of Buena Vista Social Club, Omara Portuondo, sat in her home in Cuba as she reminisced ...
The Buena Vista Social Club were artists who'd been all but lost to the world after the Cuban Revolution -- until they united for a 1997 album. Now, their unlikely story takes a new stage: Broadway.
As its title indicates, this production, directed by Saheem Ali, is inspired by the 1997 hit album “Buena Vista Social Club,” on which veterans of the Havana scene performed beloved sons ...
As today’s Broadway goes, “Buena Vista” is a modestly scaled show that concentrates on celebrating the musical artistry of performers and, despite the improvisational nature of ...
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 ...
Brought to life on a Broadway stage, the old songs as they were played in the 1940s and '50s at the actual Buena Vista Social Club, a members-only Havana nightclub for working class Black Cubans.
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 ...
The real-life Buena Vista Social Club was in the Buenavista quarter of Havana, a music club at its peak in the 1940s and early 1950s and once the go-to, pre-Revolutionary place for hot dance ...