{"id":359870,"date":"2026-09-29T16:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T16:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/359870\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T16:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T16:14:09","slug":"xolo-mariduena-to-make-broadway-debut-in-buena-vista-social-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/359870\/","title":{"rendered":"Xolo Maridue\u00f1a to make Broadway debut in &#8216;Buena Vista Social Club&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cobra Kai and Blue Beetle screen star will perform in the Tony Award-winning musical for seven weeks only starting in November.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a1Bienvenidos a Broadway! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorktheatreguide.com\/stars-on-stage\/xolo-mariduena\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Xolo Maridue\u00f1a<\/a> will make his Broadway debut in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorktheatreguide.com\/show\/31351-buena-vista-social-club\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Buena Vista Social Club<\/a> for seven weeks only this fall, playing Juan De Marcos from November 17 to January 3.<\/p>\n<p>Maridue\u00f1a is best known for his screen roles as Miguel Diaz on Cobra Kai (Teen Choice, Young Artists Award nominations), the title role of the DC superhero film Blue Beetle, Victor in Parenthood, and Gideon in Practical Magic 2. He has been named to Forbes&#8217; 30 under 30 list, to Variety&#8217;s 2021 Young Hollywood Impact List, and as &#8220;one to watch&#8221; by People Magazine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m honored to be making my Broadway debut with the incredibly talented team at Buena Vista Social Club,\u201d said Maridue\u00f1a in a statement. \u201cBroadway has always been a dream, but getting to make that dream come true while being part of such an important and beautiful story feels like hitting the lottery twice. Come ready to laugh, cry, and shake your booty!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Buena Vista Social Club musical, inspired by the same-named band and its Grammy-winning landmark album, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorktheatreguide.com\/theatre-news\/news\/discover-the-musicians-of-buena-vista-social-club-on-broadway\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dramatizes the stories<\/a> of the artists who reunited in the &#8217;90s to revive a bygone era of Cuban music, decades after the Cuban Revolution upended their lives and careers.<\/p>\n<p>Buena Vista Social Club won five Tony Awards in 2025, when it began its acclaimed run at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorktheatreguide.com\/venues\/gerald-schoenfeld-theatre\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorktheatreguide.com\/theatre-news\/news\/the-real-history-behind-buena-vista-social-club-on-broadway\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more about the show.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Get <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorktheatreguide.com\/show\/31351-buena-vista-social-club\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Buena Vista Social Club tickets<\/a> now.<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: Xolo Maridue\u00f1a. (Photo by Ian West &#8211; PA Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cobra Kai and Blue Beetle screen star will perform in the Tony Award-winning musical for seven weeks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-359870","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\/359870","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=359870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}