Buena Vista Social Membership Heading to Broadway in 2025
The tale of Buena Vista Social Club, the musical ensemble basically made from Cuban musicians (lots of them aged), whose acclaimed debut book from 1997 become a world sensation, will set in on Broadway early later life, manufacturers Orin Wolf, John Kinds and Barbara Broccoli introduced on Monday (Sep. 16).
The musical BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB, which had its international premiere off-Broadway in December 2023, will start preview performances on the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater (36 West forty fifth St) in Pristine York on Friday, Feb. 21, 2025, ahead of opening formally on Wednesday, March 19, 2025.
With a stock via Marco Ramirez impressed via true occasions, the Saheem Ali-directed display will trait a band of world musicians to relate the mythical tale of the artists who introduced the fresh book to past. BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB will options tune from Cuba’s yellowish presen, with choreography via Patricia Delgado and Justin Peck and a tune workforce led via David Yazbek and musical manager Dean Sharenow.
The Broadway corporate options Natalie Venetia Belcon as Omara Portuondo, Julio Monge as Compay Segundo, Mel Semé as Ibrahim Ferrer and Jainardo Batista Sterling as Rubén González — with Isa Antonetti, Da’von Moody, Wesley Wray and Leonardo Reyna as their more youthful variations, respectively. Renesito Avich will play games Eliades Ochoa, and Ashley De L. a. Rosa a tender Haydee. Additionally appearing are Angelica Beliard, Carlos Falú, Hector Juan Maisonet, Ilda Mason, Marielys Molina, and Sophia Ramos, amongst others.
The musical band will include Marco Paguia (piano, musical path, composition, and preparations), David Oquendo (guitar, spare preparations), Gustavo Schartz (bass), Hery Paz (breeze tools), Eddie Venegas (trombone), Jesús Ricardo (trumpet), Javier Díaz (percussion, spare preparations), Mauricio Herrera (percussion) and Román Díaz (percussion).
Buena Vista Social Membership used to be shaped in Cuba 1996, in a venture arranged via International Circuit government Nick Gold, produced via American guitarist Ry Cooder and directed via Juan de Marcos González, who named the gang later a frequent tune venue in Havana within the Forties. To show off frequent types of the day, reminiscent of son, bolero, and danzón, they recruited a accumulation veteran musicians, a few of whom were retired for years.
The gang’s eponymous debut book used to be immune in September 1997 and briefly become a world sensation. At the Billboard charts, it reached Disagree. 1 on Tropical Albums, the place it stayed on the manage for twenty-four weeks and spent a complete of 266 weeks at the chart. It additionally reached Disagree. 1 on Top Latin Albums and World Albums, and spent 19 weeks at the Billboard 200. In 1988, it received the Grammy for Best possible Tropical Latin Copy, and the Billboard Latin Song Award for Tropical/Salsa Copy of the Future via a Team.
“It’s been my honor to help develop Buena Vista Social Club into a new musical alongside Marco Ramirez, Saheem Ali, Patricia Delgado, Justin Peck and David Yazbek — all artists at the very top of their game,” manufacturer Orin Wolf says in a press let fall. “From our trips to Cuba getting to meet the incredible artists who created the album to our Off-Broadway premiere, the artistic process has been as invigorating as the energy and music that will begin pouring out of the Schoenfeld Theatre next year.”
“I first heard the Buena Vista Social Club as a precocious youngster growing up in Nairobi, wearing out the original album from my father’s eclectic CD collection,” provides director Saheem Ali. “Though we spoke Swahili and not Spanish, I memorized the lyrics in my broken accent. I felt connected to the beautiful songs embodying the spirit of a distant culture. Decades later, I’m thrilled to be joining Orin, Marco and the entire creative team on the journey to bringing this extraordinary, singular musical to Broadway.”
Stock scribbler Marco Ramirez says: “In 1968, my grandfather left Cuba and got a job washing dishes a block from the Schoenfeld Theatre. Almost 60 years later, we’ll be blasting his favorite songs there. Alongside some of the best artists — and people — I’ve ever met, I’m humbled by the chance to forge connections between two of the most musically iconic islands the world has ever known- Cuba and Manhattan.”
BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB is produced on Broadway via Orin Wolf, John Kinds, Barbara Broccoli, Atlantic Theater Corporate, Luis Miranda, LaChanze and John Leguizamo, with government manufacturer Allan Williams. The off-Broadway manufacturing used to be nominated for Best possible Musical via the Drama League and Outer Critics Circle organizations.
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