Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre

Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre

  • Theater | Broadway
  • price 4 of 4
  • Midtown West
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Time Out says

Named after the bullish head of the Shubert Organization, Gerald Schoenfeld, this 1,079-seat space (known until 2005 as the Plymouth) features a relatively restrained neoclassical interior, done in the Adam style. Historic productions there include the world premiere of Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth in 1942 (featuring Talluleh Bankhead), The Odd Couple in 1965 and the musical Jekyll & Hyde in 1997.

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Address
236 W 45th St
New York
10036
Cross street:
between Broadway and Eighth Aves
Transport:
Subway: N, Q, R, 1, 2, 3 to 42nd St–Times Sq; A, C, E to 42nd St–Port Authority
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Buena Vista Social Club

4 out of 5 stars
Broadway review by Adam Feldman  Buena Vista Social Club offers an irresistible tropical vacation. A celebration of Cuban musical history, it’s a getaway and a gateway: To attend this show—which premiered last season at the Atlantic Theatre, and has now moved to Broadway—is to enter a world thick with history that you’ll want to learn more about afterward, if you don’t know it already. While you’re there, though, you don’t need to think too hard. Just give yourself over to the sounds that pour out from the stage.  The 1997 album Buena Vista Social Club gathered an extraordinary group of elderly musicians to recreate the atmosphere and the traditional musical styles—son, boleros, guajiras—of a racially inclusive Havana nightspot before the Cuban Revolution. It became a worldwide sensation upon its release, and was the subject of a 1999 documentary film by Wim Wenders. Marco Ramirez’s stage version has a less factual bent. “Some of what follows is true,” says the bandleader Juan de Marcos (Justin Cunningham), who was instrumental in assembling the album’s participants. “Some of it only feels true.”  Buena Vista Social Club | Photograph: Courtesy Matthew Murphy The musical focuses on four of the album’s principal performers: vocalists Omara Portuondo (a regal Natalie Venetia Belcon) and Ibrahim Ferrer (Mel Semé), guitarist-singer Compay Segundo (Julio Monge) and pianist Rubén González (Jainardo Batista Sterling). Scenes from the album’s 1996 recording process alternate with...
  • Musicals
  • Open run
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