{"id":398144,"date":"2026-01-09T23:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T23:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/398144\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T23:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T23:38:11","slug":"ana-navarro-offered-buena-vista-social-club-walk-on-role-for-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/398144\/","title":{"rendered":"Ana Navarro Offered &#8216;Buena Vista Social Club&#8217; Walk-On Role For Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-view\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-view\" data-tag=\"the-view\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The View<\/a> co-host <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/ana-navarro\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ana-navarro\" data-tag=\"ana-navarro\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ana Navarro<\/a> has made no secret of her love for the musical <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/buena-vista-social-club\/\" id=\"auto-tag_buena-vista-social-club\" data-tag=\"buena-vista-social-club\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Buena Vista Social Club<\/a> \u2013 she says she\u2019s seen the show four times \u2013 so on today\u2019s episode celebrating Navarro\u2019s December 28 birthday the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/broadway\/\" id=\"auto-tag_broadway\" data-tag=\"broadway\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Broadway<\/a> production returned the favor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tA surprised Navarro was offered a one-night-only walk-on role on the five-time Tony Award winning production. The date for her spring appearance is to be determined.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWatch The View segment below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAs is The View custom, the co-host\u2019s birthday was marked at the end of the episode, with Navarro announcing that she had arranged for a two-ticket-giveaway for an audience member to attend musician Marc Anthony\u2019s upcoming residency at Las Vegas\u2019 Fontainebleau hotel. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFriday moderator Joy Behar then introduced BVSD musicians\/cast members Renesito Avich and David Oquendo who serenaded Navarro with a birthday song.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cOh my God, you\u2019re not offering me a role on Buena Vista Social Club, are you?,\u201d Navarro joked before the two musicians did just that. \u201cI can\u2019t sing!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tNavarro, who described BVSC as a \u201cCuban music concert and a play at the same time,\u201d seemed genuinely thrown as the offer sunk in. \u201cWait, is this a thing?,\u201d she asked. \u201cI thought this was a practical joke.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBuena Vista Social Club, with a book by\u00a0Marco Ramirez\u00a0and featuring the music recorded by the ensemble musician group of the title, is set in\u00a0Havana from the 1950s to the 1990s and follows the lives of four musicians over the decades, culminating in their 1997 reunion-collaboration on the album\u00a0Buena Vista Social Club. Among its five 2025 Tony Awards, the show\u2019s Natalie Venetia Belcon won for best featured actress in a musical.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The View co-host Ana Navarro has made no secret of her love for the musical Buena Vista Social&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[57991,21540,192317,88,2516,92],"class_list":["post-398144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ana-navarro","tag-broadway","tag-buena-vista-social-club","tag-entertainment","tag-the-view","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}