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Africa rising: Bill T. Jones salutes Fela's life and music off-Broadway.
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Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-OCT-08 |
Format: Online
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Full Article Title: Africa rising: Bill T. Jones salutes Fela's life and music off-Broadway.(on broadway) |
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Broadway usually knows a good thing when it sees it. Let someone hit it big with a self-referential comic spree like The Producers, and it doesn't take long before someone else comes along with Spamalot. Mamma Mia! leads to Jersey Boys, and Rent spawns Spring Awakening.
So why has it taken more than 10 years since the sensational success of The Lion King for another musical to look at Africa as a source of compelling stories and irresistible rhythms? (Please, let's leave Tarzan out of this.) A mere handful of musicals--starting with the groundbreaking hit In Dabomey, in 1903, and including short-lived rarities like the 1962 Kwamina--have brought the music and dance of Africa to American theater audiences. The Lion King should have turned that trickle into a flood.
It didn't. So for...
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