Welcome to the next iteration of the enduring saga of the Buena Vista Social Club. “It’s important that this is the real thing, not a Broadway musical production.” “Nothing like this has been attempted before,” says music supervisor Dean Sharenow. Cradling their percussion instruments, horns, and guitars, a ten-piece band of musicians, some from Latin America, preparing to play a sinuous piece of son Cubano, as a theater crew - director, writer, actors and choreographers - hover around. Cuba is roughly 1,300 miles away, but in a rehearsal space in downtown Manhattan, it doesn’t feel all that far.
