Moisés Kaufman & Eduardo Machado's "Carmen: An Afro-Cuban Jazz Musical"
The creative team has moved the action from 19th-century Seville, Spain, to Havana in 1958, shortly before Fidel Castro's supporters came to power against the dictator Fulgencio Batista. In this world, Carmen (incendiary Christina Sajous, a fierce singer and dancer) is a gunrunner for the Castro forces, an Afro-Cuban descended from slaves and a practitioner of Santeria, the blend of African beliefs and Catholicism.