While any number of musicals are based on popular movies, precious few are based on documentaries. Fortunately, Saheem Ali had the wonderful idea to bring Wim Wender’s 1999 documentary Buena Vista Social Club to the stage. After a run at Atlantic Theater Company in late 2023, the celebration of Cuban music and history has come to Broadway. The musical’s (rather thin) story evokes the melodrama of classic telenovelas, with a romance that is star-crossed by class divisions and a passionate artist who must choose between creating music for the world or for her own community. In 1959, as revolution sweeps across