BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB Previews- Page 2

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 3/7/25 at 5:23pm

Isa Antonetti, Wesley Wray, Da'Von T. Moody, and the company with a third-hour performance of "La Negra Tomasa":

 

 

Updated On: 3/7/25 at 05:23 PM

[CoffeeBreak]

Posted: 3/7/25 at 11:09pm

The trio here is Isa Antonetti, Wesley Wray, and Da'Von T. Moody.   Leonardo Reyna, piano.

[BETTY22]

Posted: 3/8/25 at 12:46pm

I have been dragging my feet about seeing this show. Not sure the GMA performance helped......

[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 3/8/25 at 1:20pm

BETTY22 said: "I have been dragging my feet about seeing this show. Not sure the GMA performance helped......"

Yeah... same... if anything that made me decide to sit this one out.

[Jonathan Cohen]

Posted: 3/8/25 at 3:11pm

There's a joke in the show about how many different ways can you play Guantanamera? It's a funny point, but at the same time, there's no song actually in the show I like as much as Guantanamera. I would only recommend this show if you love the original BVSC album, which for whatever reason, I've never been able to connect with.  

In terms of the book, it's just kind of there. I don't get framing the narrative around needing to get Omara Portuondo to make the album a success when in reality she only sang on one track. 

[quizking101]

Posted: 3/8/25 at 3:30pm

Jonathan Cohen said: 
“In terms of the book, it's just kind of there. I don'tget framing thenarrative around needing to getOmara Portuondo to make the album a successwhen in reality she only sang on one track."

One could argue that the producer of the album wanted to capture as much as he could in terms of preserving the music that had almost been lost to time because of the U.S-Cuba tension. While Omara may have appeared in only one song on the album, her omission from what ended up becoming a greatly important record of son cubano music would’ve been felt.

She also does have a compelling backstory, but the musical does make it a bit clunky.

https://www.pbs.org/buenavista/musicians/bios.html