{"id":350414,"date":"2026-09-18T18:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T18:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/350414\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T18:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T18:30:11","slug":"bernie-williams-to-join-buena-vista-social-club-on-broadway-jose-candelita-iglesias-extends-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/350414\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Williams to join ‘Buena Vista Social Club’ on Broadway; Jos\u00e9 “Candelita” Iglesias extends run"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former New York Yankees player and Grammy-nominated jazz guitarist, Bernie Williams, joins the band in Buena Vista Social Club on Broadway for a limited run from October 22 through November 29. He joins New York Mets alum and recording artist Jos\u00e9 “Candelita” Iglesias<\/a>, who has extended his six-week run for another six weeks; now ending November 15.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am excited about the opportunity to join Buena Vista Social Club because the music was part of my childhood growing up,\u201d said Williams in a statement. \u201cI remember my mother listening to this music on Sunday afternoons and it reminds me of wonderful times with my family when I was a kid. The opportunity to play that same music on Broadway in this show is truly a dream come true.\u201d<\/p>\n

Williams and Iglesias will also be joined by the previously announced TV and film star Gina Torres<\/a> (Suits, Firefly, 911: Lone Star) from October 13 to November 29, while Tony Award winner Natalie Venetia Belcon takes a leave of absence to star in In the Heights<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Buena Vista Social Club tells a fictionalized story of the same-named band, who reunited in the ’90s to revive a bygone era of Cuban music, decades after the Cuban Revolution upended their careers and their culture, creating an iconic album in the process.<\/p>\n

Get Buena Vista Social Club tickets<\/a> now.<\/p>\n

Photo credit: Bernie Williams and Jos\u00e9 Iglesias. (Williams photo by David Andrako; Iglesias photo courtesy of production)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former New York Yankees player and Grammy-nominated jazz guitarist, Bernie Williams, joins the band in Buena Vista Social…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-350414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}