Fela

[Heng]

Posted: 5/5/10 at 12:19am

Go Fela!!!!!!! It is amazing

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 5/5/10 at 12:21am

I love this show. One of Frank Loesser's best.

[mormonophobic]

Posted: 5/5/10 at 12:27am

While I agree that it is quite good(must everything in this world be amazing?!), I think you got your point across with the "Hello" thread.

Still, I really enjoyed Fela! and thought it was one of the best shows of the season. While a lot of people on here (strongly) disagree, I'm pleased the Tony voters are siding with me on this one. Although the show that tied Fela! for Tony nominations (La Cage) seems to have inspired a similar Love-It or Hate-It quality on here. For the record, I loved both, although for very different reasons. Fela was able to completely draw me into its world for a short amount of time and make me feel as if I was attending the last show at the Shrine. The dressing up of the Eugene O'Neil Theater definitely helped this, but it was the great show that followed which made me fall for it.

[mormonophobic]

Posted: 5/5/10 at 12:28am

Phyllis Rogers Stone for the win! I love The Most Happy Fella. And for the longest time I kept mispronouncing Fela!, one of which was the Loesser version.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 5/5/10 at 12:31am

I like to believe that Fela! is a modern retelling of Most Happy Fella.

Happy to make you acquaintance. Thank you so much, Omma feel fine!

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 5/5/10 at 12:37am

That's so weird! I totally didn't get that when I saw it. I guess I'll have to go back and stay for more than the first half hour this time.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 5/5/10 at 12:38am

Now, won't you please say likewise...

[HK]

Posted: 5/5/10 at 12:41am

It is a problem with being new that not everyone will like it I just think it should win because it tries so hard to be different and an African setting and music made it orginal for me.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 5/5/10 at 12:42am

Is that so, HK?

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 5/5/10 at 1:24am

[chewy5000]

Posted: 5/5/10 at 8:14am

I've seen that damn picture at least 50 times today. It never fails to crack me up

[jacobsnchz14]

Posted: 5/5/10 at 10:20am

Didn't want to start another thread, so I thought I'd post it here.

If Sahr Ngaujah got nominated for Best Actor in a Musical, wouldn't Kevin Mambo have gotten nominated in a dual nomination? On IBDB it lists him as an alternate. That was the same situation for Billy Elliot last year, wasn't it? What is the difference in the nominations? Not sure how it was worked/decided. Thanks.