Offering a Substantial Infusion of Sheer Joy, ‘Buena Vista Social Club’ Moves to Broadway
The Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre allows the lavishly gifted performers in Saheem Ali’s company room to spread their wings and soar.

It would seem a daunting challenge to craft a feel-good musical set in Cuba in 1956, the year that Fidel Castro returned with his comrades to begin their insurgency in earnest, and 1996, as the country was reeling after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Yet both the resilience of the Cuban people and their artistic contributions are being celebrated in a new Broadway show with irresistible exuberance, not to mention staggering talent.
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