BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB’s Patricia Delgado and Justin Peck Win 2025 Tony Award for Best Choreography
Patricia Delgado and Justin Peck have won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Choreography for their work on Buena Vista Social Club. The pair beat out fellow nominees Joshua Bergasse for Smash, Jerry Mitchell for BOOP! The Musical, Camille A. Brown for Gypsy, and Christopher Gatteli for Death Becomes Her.
Delgado and Peck are longtime collaborators — and real life married couple. They have been with Buena Vista Social Club since the beginning of its development. They’ve worked together on various projects, including Steven Spielberg’s 2021 West Side Story, Buena Vista Social Club marks their first co-choreographer credit.
Set in Havana during the 1950s through the 1990s, Buena Vista Social Club tells the story of the effect of the rise of communism and Fidel Castro on local musicians. It follows four prominent musicians and their eventual collaboration on the 1997 landmark album Buena Vista Social Club. The show’s music is entirely in Spanish. Ali served as its director when it premiered Off-Broadway in 2023 at the Atlantic Theatre Company.
