Cabaret entertainment in Havana
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Tropicana Nightclub
A city institution since it opened in 1939, the world-famous Tropicana was one of the few bastions of Havana’s Las Vegas–style nightlife to survive the clampdowns of the puritanical Castro Revolution. Immortalized in Graham Greene’s 1958 classic Our Man in Havana, this open-air cabaret show is little changed since its ’50s heyday, featuring a bevy of scantily clad señoritas who climb nightly down from the palm trees to dance Latin salsa amid colorful flashing lights on stage. Tickets go for a slightly less than socialistic CUC$70.
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Cabaret Salón Rojo
Although George Raft’s opulent Hotel Capri closed a couple of years back, its once notorious cabaret show, the Salón Rojo (Red Room), seems to have been given an indefinite reprieve. While the cabaret is no longer the Mob-infested gambling den of yesteryear, the acts and music in the trussed up and revamped Salón Rojo are still hot, pulsating and ever popular with affluent Cubans. For heated music and no-holds-barred dancing, this is the place to come.
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Cabaret Nacional
The Cabaret Nacional, below the Gran Teatro de la Habana, has a show nightly at 11:30pm if enough patrons are present. It’s a little camper than other Havana cabarets and the noise – rather annoyingly if you’re watching the opera – sometimes filters through into the Lorca auditorium next door. There’s a couples-only policy and a ‘no shorts/T-shirts’ dress code.
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Cabaret Parisién
The nightly cabaret show in the Hotel Nacional is well worth a look, especially if you’re staying in or around Vedado. It’s the usual mix of frills, feathers and semi-naked women, but the choreography is first class and the whole spectacle has excellent kitsch value.
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Copa Room
Doormen in tuxes and an atmosphere that’s pure 1950s kitsch make the refurbished Copa Room in Meyer Lansky’s Hotel Riviera look like a nostalgic walk through The Godfather II.
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Cabaret Turquino
Spectacular shows in a spectacular setting on the 25th floor of the Hotel Habana Libre.
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