Cuba Says Goodbye to Broadway Rox, a Show without Borders

With a standing 10 minutes ovation the Cuban public said goodbye to the cast of the American musical Broadway Rox, which was presented here for the last time as a part of the 16th Havana Theater Festival (FTH, in Spanish). The intense applause and cheers managed to overshadow the fact that yesterday this phenomenal show had its third and final presentation on the island, added to the professionalism of the artists who sang and danced as if it were the first day.

"It is a pleasure to return to Havana to participate in the 16th Havana Theater Festival with our production Broadway Rox, a celebration of the creative diversity of this industry", said before the show started Robert Nederlander, president of the group Worldwide Entertainment, which was in Cuba in 2011 and 2014.

This show has managed to gather six Broadway stars and five excellent New York musicians that will bring us several contemporary pop rock classics, added the manager before giving way to the undeniable talent of vocalists Daniel Luis Domenech, Janine Divita, Ashley Loren, Darren Ritchie, Shelley Thomas and Jason Wooten.

For almost two hours the Mella Theater in this capital, with a sellout crowd, literally vibrated to the beat of songs taken from plays that have marked time in the main theater circuit in the world, as Jesus Christ Superstar, Wicked, Hair, Rent, Tommy, Mamma Mia!, Rock of Ages and The Phantom of the Opera, among others.

In addition, the spectators in Havana enjoyed heartfelt homages to icons such as John Lennon, Billy Joel and Paul McCartney, and they even chanted songs written by him as Hey Jude and New York State of Mind.

Great voices, intelligent hooks and many acting skills many of these stars of Broadway were the paradigm throughout the presentation.

Another special moment will have the festival today when the British-Spanish company Sleepwalk proposes the piece Collective Sirens, which mixes the poetic text with the sounds cape in a complicit relationship between spectator and performer.

Source: PL