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Fela!
450 W 37th St (between Ninth and Tenth Aves)
Midtown West | Map212-560-8912
Subway: A, C, E to 34th St–Penn Station | Directions
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Tickets: $76.25
Description
Director-choreographer Bill T. Jones stages a day in the life of Fela Anikulapo Kuti, the late Nigerian bandleader, activist and provocateur. Afrobeat’s percolating funk—played by local groove ensemble Antibalas—envelops the audience from the start, and Fela (Sahr Ngaujah) stokes the crowd with humor, charisma and a set of classics that bare his barbed tongue. But the text glosses over important parts of his life, and Jones’s use of choreography—in Africanized production numbers that illustrate Kuti’s struggles to speak truth to power—doesn’t always hold together. A concert of this material might be better theater all by itself.—K. Leander WilliamsWhen
Oct 5 2008 3pm
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