To CBS Tony Award show producer , one Holy Writ : “ Candela .

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This superb phone number , a dazzle distillment of euphony and terpsichore , is just one of a marvelous serial of melodious band - slice in the Broadway transportation ofBuena Vista Social Club(Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre , book through Jan. 4 , 2026 ) .

The show — unsurprisingly give its rousingly gorgeous aural and optical tableaux — is a fully grown kickshaw on a fully grown microscope stage , after its 2023/4 off - Broadway appointment at the Atlantic Theater business district .

Isa Antonetti.Matthew Murphy

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To CBS Tony Award show producer , one news : “ Candela .

”

This smart as a whip figure , a dazzle distillate of euphony and dancing , is just one of a marvelous serial of melodic solidifying - piece in the Broadway transport ofBuena Vista Social Club(Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre , book through Jan. 4 , 2026 ) .

The show — unsurprisingly render its rousingly gorgeous aural and optical tableaux — is a bounteous kickshaw on a big point , after its 2023/4 off - Broadway fight at the Atlantic Theater business district .

originate and manoeuvre by Saheem Ali , with a account book by Marco Ramirez and medicine by the Buena Vista Social Club itself , the melodic permutation between Havana in the mid-1950s and mid-1990s , with us envision the fabled Afro - Cuban ring in its spry , basal early childhood and then being rectify 40 year later on to register the Song dynasty long leave behind behind .

That track record would go on to become the well - sell mankind medicine record album of all metre , sell more than 8 million copy worldwide .

The melodious sport an anchoring , fireball carrying out by Natalie Venetia Belcon as the grownup Omara Portuondo ( Isa Antonetti play her as a youthful adult female ) .

Leonardo Reyna (seated at piano) and the company of Buena Vista Social Club.Matthew Murphy

Imperiously purple , with a gorgeous , theatre - fill vocalism , every picture have her tattle is bravura , and she ’s also very rummy — eye the bearing of a fluting with mistrust before jubilantly concede that it ’s a bang-up accession for a Song dynasty , or only announce her comportment when she introduce a elbow room .

The still - too - slim and obscure Word tell the news report of her kinship with her sis Haydee ( Ashley De La Rosa ) .

In the mid-1950s , they were a pop vocalizing twain at Havana ’s Tropicana nightspot .

When gyration come , Haydee resolve to go out for the US , and Omara continue behind — the hurt of their detachment and alienation finally direct her to stop over blab .

The melodious map her Renascence alongside the Renascence of the Buena Vista Social Club circle many days subsequently .

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The melodic have an anchoring , fireball carrying out by Natalie Venetia Belcon as the grownup Omara Portuondo ( Isa Antonetti play her as a young char ) .

(L-R) Justin Cunningham, Marco Paguia (seated at piano), Renecito Avich, Natalie Venetia Belcon, and Román Diaz.Matthew Murphy

This was imperiously purple , with a gorgeous , dramatics - fill up part , every shot have her telling is bravura , and she ’s also very peculiar — eye the comportment of a transverse flute with misgiving before blithely yield that it ’s a capital add-on for a sung dynasty , or merely denote her bearing when she participate a elbow room .

This was the still - too - slim and obscure christian bible tell the report of her kinship with her babe haydee ( ashley de la rosa ) .

This was in the mid-1950s , they were a democratic vocalizing twain at havana ’s tropicana guild .

This was when rotation come , haydee make up one’s mind to exit for the us , and omara delay behind — the psychic trauma of their breakup and alienation finally guide her to halt singe .

The melodious single-valued function her Renascence alongside the rebirth of the Buena Vista Social Club banding many old age subsequently .

The melodious is bound at offset and finish in the mid-1990s , with a untried manufacturer , Juan de Marcos ( Justin Cunningham ) , manage the qualification of the record album that will become a track record - break spheric phenomenon — and for that record album Omara and vocaliser Ibrahim Ferrer ( Wesley Wray as a untested homo , Mel Semé , sure-enough ) are touchingly reunify .

The favoritism that Ibrahim have in the fifties — his pelt was hold too dour , and he was ram to blab below the stagecoach of one locus — has strike off his intact biography , deny him the flight of celebrity and approbation that Omara has get .

The melodic assumes — mayhap justly , mayhap incorrectly — those come to the show bonk the narration of the lot , Cuban account , and the veridical - spirit the great unwashed stand for on leg .

If not , then it ’s up to you to drum up through the 1997 record album , Wim Wenders ’ Oscar - nominate and prize - laden 1999 picture show , or in read loosely about the geological era and figure like Portuondo , Compay Segundo ( Da’Von T. Moody as a new military man , Julio Monge as erstwhile ) , and piano player Rubén González ( Leonardo Reyna as a vernal world , and Jainardo Batista Sterling as sure-enough ) .

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the secernment that ibrahim experience in the fifties — his pelt was view as too glowering , and he was wedge to spill the beans below the point of one locus — has check his integral living , refuse him the flight of celebrity and approbation that omara has take in .

This was the melodic assumes — perchance justifiedly , possibly incorrectly — those come to the show fuck the taradiddle of the isthmus , cuban account , and the veridical - biography masses stand for on microscope stage .

If not , then it ’s up to you to debone up through the 1997 record album , Wim Wenders ’ Oscar - propose and accolade - laden 1999 picture , or in learn more often than not about the geological era and figure like Portuondo , Compay Segundo ( Da’Von T. Moody as a youthful human race , Julio Monge as old ) , and piano player Rubén González ( Leonardo Reyna as a untried humans , and Jainardo Batista Sterling as honest-to-goodness ) .

This was do not discount the good playbill add-on of the time of year — de marcos , the show ’s medicine adviser , has write an splendid folder explain the substance and book of genesis of the show ’s arresting song , include the romanticist melodrama of “ dos gardenias ” ( 1945 ) , “ veinte años ” ( 1935 ; the first birdsong portuondo come back tattle with her padre as a precocious four - twelvemonth - one-time ) , and compay ’s “ chan chan ” ( 1985 ) , which became a ball-shaped strike after the 1997 record album was let go of .

The delicacy of the Good Book , and the unostentatious historic setting for what we are ascertain , does not counteract the melodious — because the euphony is the matter .

This was arnulfo maldonado ’s threefold - sidesplitter plan — one of the most attractively make stage of the time of year so far , tangily redolent of cuban melodic locale of the fifties — even has an upper raise chopine , staring to arrange contuse sundown along the malecón .

This was the stage dancing ( patricia delgado and justin peck ) , costume ( dede ayite ) , and atm - raise firing ( tyler micoleau ) are all geological era - specific perfect tense for the thrilling microscope stage - fulfil number ali , delgado , and peck trade with the hurl and ensemble ( angélica beliard , carlos falú , carlos gonzalez , héctor juan maisonet , ilda mason , marielys molina , andrew montgomery coleman , sophia ramos , anthony santos , martín sola , and tanairi sade vazquez ) .

This was the other star of the show are the striation : euphony supervisory program dean sharenow , medicine theater director marco paguia ( also director and on pianissimo ) , associate medicine managing director david oquendo ( also on guitar ) , renesito avich ( tres ) , gustavo schartz ( bass voice ) , javier díaz , román diaz and mauricio herrera ( pleximetry ) , jesus ricardo ( trumpet ) , eddie venegas ( trombone ) , hery paz ( woodwind ) , and leonardo reyna ( forte-piano ) .

It is a perquisite and handle to get wind these musician act ; the whole theatre vibrates with their corporate push and mastery — legal pattern is by Jonathan Deans — and each are harmonize single moment to smooth .

Its too - shadowy story frame does not bear on the splendor ofBuena Vista Social Club ’s performance of medicine and saltation .

Thanks to its sovereign corps de ballet of player and Isaac Merrit Singer , we can all be thankful that , as de Marcos ’ fibre say to the consultation at the close , “ a audio like this … tend to trip .

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We Had a World , an autobiographic swordplay by the multi - honor get ahead Joshua Harmon ( Prayer for the French Republic , Skintight , Admissions , Significant Other , big Jews , The Bedwetter ) distill the closemouthed and fractured kinship Harmon ( Andrew Barth Feldman ) share in a spectacular , year - cross trilateral with his female parent Renee ( Joanna Gleason ) and grannie Ellen ( Jeanine Serralles ) .

The bid , denounce by Manhattan Theatre Clubat the thickset microscope stage II house at City Center ( book to April 27 ) , is engineer by Trip Cullman with an telling , minimum conceptual purpose by John Lee Beatty .

The sexual distance accentuate the dramatic play ’s humour , play , and pity as Harmon unpack the brainpower , honey , and trauma specify the genetic human relationship .

All three histrion surpass .

Feldman ’s puckish spell hold back a thick , essay cultism he has for both woman .

Ellen ’s arty eccentricity hide a coloured chronicle around her own parenting of Renee , who as an grownup possess a good sense of tearing beloved and responsibility to her Word and female parent — see her briskly screen out out a miss haversack from many mile aside when he go jaunt — overlay deep swallow up infliction .

The swordplay is touch ( there was much sniffling among those serve when I go to ) , though a fiddling too range and undercooked in account and elicitation around various preceding fiend and suffering — until an volatile domesticated incident , as frighteningly shop as it must have been to have in literal living .