In the 1970s,Cheap Nurse Costumes at the Shrine, his dingy, famed club on the outskirts of Lagos, young fans would flock to his shows to flirt and get high, but they were also encouraged to study Karl Marx and read about the plight of Africa in a makeshift library.
His music, an irresistible mash-up of American influences -- Sly and the Family Stone, Frank Sinatra, James Brown -- and African rhythms, wasn't just funktastic. It was revolutionary, his lyrics aimed like rifles at Nigeria's brutal and oppressive military regime.
"We suggest a black-and-white world, where it had been all color before," said Jones. "And that's done with lighting and so on, and the costumes are all white, so they glow in the dark.Sexy Animal Costumes"
To prepare for the role, Williams consumed Fela bios -- "He wasn't just somebody making music, he wasn't just a musician staying up all night with a lot of women. He actually was fightin' for something" -- and spoke with the real-life Isadore.
In addition to her chart-topping hits, Williams is no stranger to musical theater, having appeared in the title role of Broadway's "Aida" and as Shug Avery in the national tour of "The Color Purple." Still, she said, "Fela!" is something special.Cheap Christmas Costumes
Williams shook and shimmied like a pro in February's Super Bowl halftime show, but she doesn't do much dancing in "Fela!,China costumesCheap Indian Costumes" though she loves watching from the wings.
"They don't know I'm rehearsing on the side of the stage. They don't know I'm gonna sneak in one of their numbers -- Kanye West 'em onstage one day," she said.
While "Fela!" played well on Broadway, overseas and is filling theaters in big cities, how are audiences in smaller markets responding to the unabashedly sexy show about the controversial musician who burned so bright and fast?
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