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While Broadway was focusing on Billy Elliot earlier this year, Off-Broadway
was jumping to the music of its own hit musical, Fela! a stage biography of
Fela Kuti, a real-life musician and revolutionary who used his music as a
political force to fight the dictators who ran his native Nigeria in Africa.
Along the way he fused several kinds of international and local pop music
into a style that came to be known as Afro-Beat. Several different artists
came together to create this show, including Tony-winning choreographer Bill
T. Jones, the band Anitbalas, and the actors Kevin Mambo and Lillias White.
All of them had discovered Fela separately, but together they tell Center
Stage host Robert Viagas how they have forged a musical biography that is
moving to the big time. |
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