The real music club was in the Buenavista quarter of Havana. It was once the go-to place for dance styles like son Cubano and ...
The bestselling 1997 album of traditional music that became a global hit inspired a new Broadway show. NBC News spoke ...
A new musical inspired by the 1997 hit album gives a fictional back story to the veteran performers of the Havana music scene ...
Buena Vista Social Club,” the new musical that opened Wednesday night at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, is practically a ...
The play with music re-creates the sights and sound of the Latin music club that was a haven for the city’s Cuban, Colombian ...
Buena Vista Social Club' has been nominated for seven Lucille Lortel Awards, three Outer Critics Circle Awards and two Drama ...
As today’s Broadway goes, “Buena Vista” is a modestly scaled show that concentrates on celebrating the musical artistry of ...
Entering “Buena Vista Social Club” is like stepping into a heady world of the senses, of heightened emotions, and of ...
In 1996, a group of elderly, mostly forgotten Cuban musicians recorded an album that became a critical and commercial ...
In 1996, a group of established musicians gathered at the EGREM studio — the national record label of Cuba — in Havana. Led ...
Portuondo and two other living members of the original Buena Vista Social Club music collective, Barbarito Torres and Amadito Valdés, spoke to NBC News exclusively from their homes in Havana ...
So transportive are the intoxicating Cuban music and spirited dance that it’s easy to forgive the show’s rather wispy and cliched book. The lush sights and sounds more than make up for all the ...