The Spirit of Fela! lives on
Members of the cast of Fela! at the celebration held at the Players ClubNew York, USA - The hit Broadway play and Tony Award-winning production of Fela! has had a successful, memorable and ground-breaking run and comes to an end in New York on January 2, 2011. Several members of the cast and one of the producers of the musical, Stephen Hendel, were honored guests at “The Spirit of Fela! Celebration” earlier this month held at the venerable Players club in Grammercy Park. With honorary hostess Grace Blake on the scene very early in the evening, the gathering was organized by ICAD-FTL (International Caribbean American Diaspora – Film, Theater & Literacy Festival) and its event director, Misani.
The Fela! cast boasts several talented artists from Africa and its Diaspora including five of Caribbean origin. Nicole Chantal de Weever– St. Maarten, Gelan Lambert – Haiti, Elasea Douglas- Jamaica, Daniel Soto– Dominican Republic and Oneika Phillips – Grenada have taken the stage nightly along with their fellow cast mates and helped make the production into the successful and unique Broadway story that it has become.
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