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Sahr Ngaujah, an American-born son of a father from Sierra Leone and an American mother, portrays the late Afrobeat star and political activist Fela Kuti in the Bill T. Jones-directed musica…
Sandra Smith and Fela Kuti, when they were together in 1969-70At the time of his death in 1997, Fela Anikulapo Kuti was known by many names: Afrobeat pioneer, a political instigator, …
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The Tony Award winning musical 'Fela!' comes to the Oriental Theatre in Chicago from March 28 to April 8, 2012. This highly infectious and vibrantly spirited musical based on the colorful st…
The Center Theatre Group has announced new dates of production for the national tour of the Tony Award-winning musical Fela!, which will now arrive in December, replacing a scuttled revival …
The Ahmanson Theatre will now host the touring production of Fela! from December 13, 2011-January 22, 2012, rather than its previously scheduled spring engagement, according to The Los Angel…
You don't walk into Fela! expecting Oklahoma!. With the visionary Bill T. Jones serving as director, choreographer and co-writer, you know this is going to be different. And it's going to be…
The touring musical "Fela!" will play at the Ahmanson Theatre starting Dec. 13, moved up from its previously announced April opening. The change provides flexibility for finding a show to re…
Here is a production with a large cast but only one real character; at its heart, in fact, a one-man show. It's an audience-pleasing, even audience-baiting, piece of work that can also land …
Tony-Award nominee Sahr Ngaujah channels virile charm of rock star to play Nigerian musician and activist Fela Kuti
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FELA! is the true story of the legendary Nigerian musician Fela Kuti, whose soulful Afrobeat rhythms ignited a generation. Inspired by his mother, a civil rights champion, he d…
Fela! Opening Night
FELA! is the true story of the legendary Nigerian musician Fela Kuti, whose soulful Afrobeat rhythms ignited a generation. Inspired by his mother, a civil rights champio…
Fela! Opening Night
FELA! is the true story of the legendary Nigerian musician Fela Kuti, whose soulful Afrobeat rhythms ignited a generation. Inspired by his mother, a civil rights champio…
Musical biography of Nigerian Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti is strong on style, weaker on substance.
Sahr Ngaujah, star of Fela!, talks about what it's like to play a man who created Afrobeat, fought as a political activist and had 27 wives
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Sahr Ngaujah walks almost leisurely inside the Canon Theatre in downtown Toronto and takes a seat in the lobby. "Cool," he responds when I ask how his day has been. Ngaujah is cool. The star…
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Connecticut Native's Journey with Musical Continues to Afrobeat Musician's HomelandBringing "Fela!" to Broadway was astonishing to producer Stephen Hendel.
Tony award winning director-choreographer Bill T. Jones will be conducting a pre-show question-and-answer session Sunday, Oct. 23 at 1 p.m., just prior to the final show at 2 p.m. of the r…
Sahr Ngaujah stars in the touring production of the Tony Award-nominated Broadway musical "FELA!" which will play the Shubert Theater in New Haven Oct. 20 to 23.
The musical Fela! was a hit with audiences on Broadway, and now it's headed on the road; the show is kicking off a national tour in Washington, D.C. this month.
Many critics ascribe a portio…
Kuti’s Afrobeat was just the background to his workouts until 30 years later when he brought the musician’s story to Broadway Consider Fela Ankulapo Kuti. In his fifty-nine years…
