Buena Vista Social Club

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Irene Z unfortunately I missed tonight's show! for some reason I missed the date - I first saw the ad that said "Tuesday August 24" which was perfect for us. I never even looked at the date after that! I feel horrible that We missed it. I have their CD from long ago - before we visited Cuba1 Can I get a refund for my 2 tickets Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 08/23/23 Full Review Dave S In the Wim Wenders documentary Buena Vista Social Club, American guitar virtuoso Ry Cooder travels to Havana with the intent of gathering Cuba’s most renowned musicians, most of them elderly and many of them forgotten, to create an album to showcase the country’s rich cultural heritage. Interspersed with live concert footage from Amsterdam and New York, the musicians briefly tell their life stories, most of which are remarkably inspiring, emphasizing the fact that they play for the love of their art, not for fame or fortune. Granted, those who don’t enjoy Cuban music may find the concert footage tedious at times, but the interviews and the glimpses into Cuban culture are consistently compelling. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 04/21/24 Full Review Harrison R Haven't seen it in 20 years but it was good and the music is great Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 08/22/23 Full Review Thomas M The best documentary movie ever made! Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 11/25/22 Full Review dustin d The Buena Vista Social Club is a charming musical documentary with great music and little slices of life from Cuba. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member (Int. Glass Corridor Surrounded By Garden) Urainia: (walks briskly) No Pol Pot, and certainly no Castro. No communist philosophy. Apasmara: You saw what happened when I tried to bring your ideas to light. Urainia: No, I witnessed a grand scale abuse of power once your ego had ultimate power. The ideas of shared wealth are good ideas, your ego simply turned them upside down. Apasmara: What would you do? Urainia: Your dwarf ego is embedded in each child and this is little death. If they pursue their ego, which is their own little death, they will find their Father, end of story. Apasmara: But, what you're suggesting is communism. Urainia: Really. Am I suggesting Cuba? Shall we go over His Story? Apasmara: Ugh... Urainia: His Story of Cuba is that their elite were scared out once Castro came into power. Castro's idea of Communism was to break into people's homes and count common household items like toothpaste to make sure they weren't taking too much. Apasmara: So, we don't do that. Urainia: (stops) Jesus Christ, No! Stop dying for your own sins! (presses nose to glass wall and looks at beautiful garden outside) Where did a huge majority of the those rich Cubans escape to? Apasmara: Rich Cubans? Urainia: The intellectual elite. They didn't stay in crumbling Cuba. No, they escaped to US. But were they the intellectual elite here? Apasmara: (pushes nose to glass and looks at garden) No. Urainia: No. Because we have a dwarf ego in charge of US as well. So when these well-educated Cubans came to US, they were lowly immigrants and assigned jobs at the factories, even though they had been Doctors and Lawyers in Cuba. Apasmara: At least they had jobs, I guess. Urainia: Jobs in which state, though? Apasmara: (sighs) Florida. Urainia: Yes, Florida. Florida has a huge immigrant population. And how does Florida tend to vote on matters of immigration? Apasmara: They don't like immigrants. Urainia: Yes. The immigrants don't like immigrants. Why? Because they were the elite in their country and were on the lowest economic rung here until they worked their way up. You think they want our country giving away free opportunities like their country did? Apasmara: Not all immigrants are this way. Urainia: Not all. But most immigrants have money to travel to improve their life. Who doesn't have money to travel to improve their life? The poor trying to manage in their poor homeland. Who do we want as voters to improve the quality of life for everyone? Is it the elite who escaped and want to keep Others like them out, or is it the poor who have nothing? Apasmara: (turns away from garden/looks at Urainia) Won't the poor ruin your beautiful manicured garden? Urainia: This isn't my garden Apasmara, this is Our home (Apasmara's family pictures appear all over the glass walls so the garden shines through their images). The poor have always been the ones who maintain this beautiful garden through hard work, not the rich. When was the last time I saw you with a leaf blower? If you want your family home and gardens maintained, I suggest you find a way around your political isms and fix this home for all our children once and for all. Apasmara: Yes, Goddess. I guess I'm just (long pause) I'm afraid. Urainia: That's because you've used fear as a tool to enslave my nature. You kept pushing kids out into our universe because you know I love children, and while I'm eager to pull the rug of riches out from under you, I'm not so eager to do that to our kids. Apasmara: (sighs) Okay. Urainia: But, if our kids are maintained on this rug of riches, it's not good for them, either. I expect since you are an actor of many talents, you will fix this. Apasmara: Yes, Goddess. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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