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Fela In The Footlights? [Musicals!]
Posted on September 05, 2008
As someone who spent a few years deeply obsessed with Fela's catalog (the vinyl reissues came with trading cards of his wives!), the idea of an off-Broadway musical based on his life threw me for a loop, even with prominent Afrobeat soundalikes Antibalas as the house band. Still, the guy playing Fela in the above commercial seems believable, and Fela's life story is certainly interesting enough to fill the space between his songs, so maybe this could be the new Rent, or at least the version of Rent that's about Nigerians struggling under a dictatorship, and not pseudo-Bohemians musing on life...
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