Dispatch from “Fela!” on Broadway

Posted on December 10, 2009 by Chris Faraone

I’ve never felt so comfortable drinking canned beer in a hoodie at a Broadway show…Fela!’s unofficial tag line is “originality no artificiality,” and that directive carries through the whole shebang. Fringe aficionados who are weary that this is a haphazardly scrapped Mamma Mia-type production can ditch their doubts; likewise, heads need not worry that Jay-Z and Will Smith signed on as producers. Those two clowns might have sold out long ago, but Fela Kuti never did – not in real life, and not on Broadway either.

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