Theatrical Musings: Broadway Strike Must End! “Celia Cruz” Must Be Reviewed!

The Broadway theater strike must be settled before this Sunday. That’s when I have tickets to see Tom Stoppard‘s “Rock ‘n’ Roll.”
Meanwhile, have New York’s theater critics, with only the reopened “Grinch” to review on Broadway these days, managed to discover Off Broadway’s “Celia: The Life and Music of Celia Cruz,” about which I wrote favorably two months ago?
The NY Post has been there. The Daily News has done that.
And the NY Times???
I guess this play, with only a couple of performances a week in English, is largely aimed at Latinos, who were the late monolingual Cuban diva’s target audience. Perhaps they’re not the Times’ target audience. My Spanish (like Celia’s English) is “not very good looking,” and my taste runs more to Stoppard than salsa. But I still was swept up in the propulsive performance of the Queen of Salsa’s infectious music, persuasively recreated by the show’s musicians and, especially, by Xiomara Laugart Sánchez in the title role.
I guess word-of-mouth has been good enough: New World Stages announced last month that it was extending the run till Jan. 27.
Even then, it might not be over if the Gray Lady finally sings.