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| Sunday, November 8, 2009 12:37AM | | | | Fela! the Musical: A Review | Tags: fela kuti, nigeria, human rights, obasanjo, fela!, funmilayo kuti, afrobeat, antibalas, femi kuti
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Fela!
Written by Jim Lewis & Bill T. Jones
Music by Fela Anikupalo Kuti
Choreography by Bill T. Jones
Performed by Antibalas Afrobeat
With Sahr Ngaugha, Lillias White, Saycon Sengbloh, Ismael Kouyate
Performing at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre in New York
The music icon Fela Anikupalo Kuti was the unlikely culmination of generations of talent and courage. His grandfather, Jay Jay, was a classical musician with an international reputation. His father was a devout man-of-the-cloth and the strict headmaster of a high school. His mother, Funmilayo, organized a successful women's movement in Nigeria, stood firm in the face of the colonial authorities, and traveled the world -- even meeting Mao Zedong in China during the height... | | | | | |
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