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FELA! Award-Winning Broadway Musical at the Ordway Center

Ordway Center for the Performing Arts - Music Theater, Ordway Main Hall (345 Washington St. Saint Paul, MN 55102)
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Full Price:
$66.00 - $94.00
Our Price:
$15.00 - $56.40*
4.8 by 29 members
Directed and choreographed by Tony-winner Bill T. Jones (Spring Awakening) and produced by Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, FELA! brings a high-energy mix of dance, theater and music to tell the true-life story of the legendary Nigerian musician Fela Kuti. With a score featuring Kuti's pioneering music -- a blend of jazz, funk and African rhythm and harmonies -- FELA! powerfully explores Kuti's controversial life as an innovative artist, civil-rights champion and revolutionary musician. The show won three 2010 Tony Awards, including Best Choreography, and now the national tour comes to the Ordway Center in St. Paul.

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The last date listed for FELA! was Thursday June 14, 2012 / 7:30pm.

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Ordway Center for the Performing Arts - Music Theater
Ordway Main Hall,
345 Washington St.
Saint Paul, MN 55102
Website
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    I always dress classy for the theater. It's a classy place (The Ordway) and it's nice to look good.
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    We found something, got in and out with a bike race going on!
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    Miserable with the bike race going on. If I'd known I would have bought tickets for another night.

22 Goldstar Member Reviews

Missing_member_pic_grid_2_1 Goldstar Member
5.0

Fela was very well done, an emotional and intriguing experience. The volume of the music was a bit loud and I had to plug my ears part of the time to reduce the pain, which also made it a bit easier to understand the words. But the music was amazing and the dancing was a powerful way to relate this man's biography. I want to explore more about him now.

Written on Jun 16 2012
Missing_member_pic_grid_2_1 Goldstar Member
5.0

I loved this show! The dancing and music we're amazing, and it was a thoughtful and inspiring story. Loud and colorful, joyful and tragic, this was a moving experience. Melanie Marshall has the most beautiful voice I've ever heard.

Written on Jun 16 2012
Missing_member_pic_grid_2_1 Goldstar Member
5.0

This was a phenomenal show - a great story line, outstanding dance and music performances and incredible energy!

Written on Jun 15 2012
Missing_member_pic_grid_2_1 Goldstar Member
5.0

Amazing!!!

Written on Jun 15 2012
All 22 Reviews

More Information About FELA!

Website

http://www.ordway.org/performances/1112/fela.asp

Quotes & Highlights

  • Check out the official FELA! website for videos and more.
  • Read the stellar Goldstar member reviews for this production's Los Angeles run, or check out the reviews of the show in Washington.
  • "The hot (and seriously cool) energy that comes from the musical gospel preached by the title character of FELA! feels as if it could stretch easily to the borders of Manhattan and then across a river or two. There should be dancing in the streets!" --Ben Brantley, The New York Times
  • "FELA! Is as rowdy as it is rousing. (It) is one of the most original and exciting shows to come around in a long while." --New York Daily News
  • "There's enough energy in the first act of FELA! to short circuit Con Ed. It spills over from the stage and into the orchestra seats. Boundless and joyous: This is as close as Broadway gets to fully immersive theatre." --New York Post
  • "Bill T. Jones's wildly loose-limbed journey into the throbbing heart of Afrobeat breaks bold new ground in musical theatre." --Variety
  • “ ... the most exuberant musical I’ve seen this season. ... the fusion of his (Fela’s) sound is rapturously celebrated with a pinwheel parade of pelvises.” --Los Angeles Times

Description

FELA! is a new musical directed and choreographed by Tony Award-winner Bill T. Jones, in which audiences are welcomed into the extravagant, decadent and rebellious world of Afro-beat legend Fela Anikulapo Kuti. Using his pioneering music (a blend of jazz, funk, and African rhythm and harmonies), FELA! explores Kuti’s controversial life as an artist, political activist and revolutionary musician. A three-time Tony Award winner in 2010, this production arrives at the Ordway direct from Broadway.

About the Ticket Supplier: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

The Ordway, recognized as one of the U.S.'s leading not-for-profit performing arts centers, is home to a wide variety of performances throughout the year that encompass the finest in American musical theater, world music, dance, jazz, and vocal artists on its Main Hall and McKnight Theatre stages.