dancemagazine.com: In 1997, the album Buena Vista Social Club became an unexpected hit. Named for a popular Cuban music venue that opened in the 1930s, it was recorded in Havana in just seven days by a thrown-together group of Cuban musicians and catapulted Latin music into the spotlight. Now, those beloved songs are getting a fresh audience. A new musical, also called Buena Vista Social Club, is opening at Broadway’s Schoenfeld Theatre on March 19 following a successful off-Broadway run at Atlantic Theater Company in late 2023.
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I have heard quite a lot about Buena Vista Social Club mostly because Isa got cast as one of the main lead roles portraying Young Omara. Which it is super awesome to see all of the extremely talented actors that are currently students at Carnegie Mellon University getting cast in all of these major productions and Broadway shows. I do not know much about the actual plot of the musical, but a few of my friends have seen it and enjoyed and the costumes look beautiful. I love how musicals are able to teach me about different individuals and their livelihoods that I would have never known about without exposure to that project. I also watched their morning show performance, which was lovely. I am excited to see how this show progresses throughout the season and continues to grow, and I hope to be able to see it when I go back home for the summer.
I first heard about the Buena Vista Social Club when a current senior musical theater major had announced that she would be making her Broadway debut as Young Omara in this show. I hadn't heard much about it but I've seen a lot of music videos now a lot of the choreography a lot of curtain calls a lot of everything so I was drawn to read this article and this was very what seem to be sweet and sentimental about bringing Cuba to the audience is here in America because a lot of people don't have the means resources or safety to go there right now so the fact that they can bring this music dance culture and theater two people in New York is really incredible it seems very moving and very impactful. I hope to see it soon. It makes me really happy seeing CMU alumni telling wonderful stories on the stages they dreamed of performing on.
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