Cuban musical theatre has its own distinctive style and history. From the 18th century (at least) to modern times, popular theatrical performances included...

standard Cuban reference books, and their subsequent musical recordings are never on sale in Cuba. Salsa was the fourth innovation based on Cuban music to...

Teatro Nacional de Cuba is a theatre building in Havana, Cuba, on Plaza de la Revolución. Construction of the National Theater of Cuba was approved in 1951...

Martínez-Casado y Torralbas on May 4, 1930) is a Cuban actress and singer. Martinez-Casado was born into one of Cuba's theatrical families. That family started...

1900 – 17 April 1958), known as Rita Montaner, was a Cuban singer, pianist and actress. In Cuban parlance, she was a vedette (a star), and was well known...

favourite musical form in the brothels of Havana. The guaracha survives today in the repertoires of some trova musicians, conjuntos and Cuban-style big...

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include the Basque zartzuela and the Catalan sarsuela. A masque-like musical theatre had existed in Spain since the time of Juan del Encina. The zarzuela...

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Rumba is a secular genre of Cuban music involving dance, percussion, and song. It originated in the northern regions of Cuba, mainly in urban Havana and...

headlined the 21st Anniversary revival of the musical Chicago in the West End as Billy Flynn at the Phoenix Theatre. His directorial debut, Bayou Caviar, was...

criminal". The world premiere of the musical was a Broadway tryout from April 8, 1975 to May 3, 1975, at the Forrest Theatre in Philadelphia. The original Broadway...

The musical was first seen in 1993 in a workshop production at New York Theatre Workshop, the off-Broadway theatre which was also where the musical officially...

Saturday, October 14, 1950. The musical premiered on Broadway at the 46th Street Theatre (now Richard Rodgers Theatre) on November 24, 1950. It was directed...

1850) was a Cuban actor and a dramatist known as "the father of Cuban theatre". Covarrubias was notable in the history of the music of Cuba through his...

is a musical play inspired by the 1951 film of the same name and adapted for the stage by Christopher Wheeldon. It first opened at the Théâtre du Châtelet...

star in a musical on Broadway, with Kiss of the Spider Woman at the Broadhurst Theatre (1995). María Conchita Alonso was born in Cienfuegos, Cuba, on June...

Gran Teatro de La Habana is a theater in Havana, Cuba, home to the Cuban National Ballet. It was designed by the Belgian architect Paul Belau and built...

Cold War. During the mid-1970s, he had discussed the idea of a musical about the Cuban Missile Crisis with his usual collaborator, composer Andrew Lloyd...

stage musical star in Cuba. However, Montaner (who was also a fine pianist) gradually shifted her career from operatic-style singing towards Afro-Cuban character...

century. It originated in the late 19th century Cuban blackface theatre, where some elements from Afro-Cuban music traditions such as Santería and Palo were...

version of the musical in the Teatro Manolo Fabregas of Mexico City. Lamarque also starred the musical in Argentina the same year. In 1985, Cuban diva Rosita...

Afro-Cuban jazz is the earliest form of Latin jazz. It mixes Afro-Cuban clave-based rhythms with jazz harmonies and techniques of improvisation. Afro-Cuban...

Theatre was founded in New York in 1966 as Asociación de Arte Latinoamericano (ADAL) by a group of Cuban and Puerto Rican writers and artists. Cuban-born...

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Story. Alvarez was born David Alvarez-Gonzalez in Montreal, Quebec, to Cuban parents. His father, David Alvarez-Carbonell, is a professor of biology...

the book and additional lyrics for the musical "Cuba Libre", which is first produced by Artists Repertory Theatre in Portland, Oregon in October 2015. This...

be developed into zarzuelas in Cuba around 1850. Cuban musical theatre Carpentier, A.; Brennan, T. (2001). Music in Cuba. Cultural studies of the Americas...

he lives on and some of its many residents: Abuela Claudia, an elderly Cuban immigrant who raised Usnavi after the death of his parents; Sonny, Usnavi's...

musical On Your Feet!. She was born in Atlanta, Georgia. She graduated from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California. She is of Cuban and...