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It is Theatre Development Fund's belief that future audiences are built by engaging students, first-hand, in the vital and exciting activity of the creative process, as well as providing opportunities to see live performances of great theatre. To that end, 1,000 New York City high school students from all five boroughs who are participating in TDF's STAGE DOORS PROGRAM will be attending the critically acclaimed new Broadway musical, FELA! on Wednesday, December 9 at 2pm at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre (230 West 49th Street, NYC).
"We're thrilled to have the entire theatre for our students," said TDF Education Director, Marianna Houston. "During the past weeks, all of the students have had amazing pre-performance workshops in their schools with TDF teaching artists and their teachers. They can't wait to see FELA! live on Broadway."FELA!, the most original new musical on Broadway, is a provocative hybrid of dance and Broadway musical. It features the Afrobeat music of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, a book by Jim Lewis and the direction and choreography of Tony® Award winner Bill T. Jones. FELA! uses stirring Afrobeat music (a blend of jazz, funk and African rhythm and harmonies), to tell the story of Kuti's controversial life as artist, political activist and revolutionary musician. Featuring many of Fela Kuti's most captivating songs and Bill T. Jones's visionary staging.The 1,000 students who will see FELA! through TDF's Stage Doors Program are from the MANHATTAN schools: Millennium High School, Beacon High School, and the High School of International Business and Finance; the BROOKLYN schools: FDR High School, Brooklyn Academy, High School for Global Citizenship, and The International High School; THE BRONX schools: Bronx Community High School, Bronx Leadership Academy, and Monroe Campus; from the QUEENS school: Queens High School of Sciences and from STATEN ISLAND's Susan E. Wagner High School.Videos