Overview
- The Spanish-language musical opened on Broadway in March 2025 and continues its run at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre while keeping the album’s music central to the staging.
- The production won multiple Tony Awards in 2025, including a Special Tony that honored the onstage band, and its original Broadway cast recording won the 2026 Grammy for Best Musical Theater Album.
- Director Saheem Ali and the creative team say the show will launch a national tour and that a stand-alone replica production will be mounted in Puerto Rico this fall.
- The company will give a free performance at Rockefeller Center on July 16 as part of the NYNJ World Cup 26 & Telemundo Fan Village, a promotional move aimed at reaching Latino and global audiences.
- The stage show dramatizes the 1990s Havana recording sessions and earlier Cuban musical history, reviving the 1996 Buena Vista Social Club album’s sound while putting the musicians and Spanish-language score in the foreground.