By Samuel L. Leiter In 2023, two new musicals, Broadway's How to Dance in Ohio and Off Broadway's Buena Vista Social Club (at the Atlantic Theatre), were directly based on popular documentary films, each taking a different approach to mingling fact with fiction. The vastly superior latter was based on a 1999 Wim Wenders documentary. Its subject: a group of aging Havana musicians who, in 1996, created the eponymous, …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:53AM on March 28, 2025