20at20 (September 2008 Edition)

From September 2 through September 14, 2008, you can take advantage of Off-Broadway's 20at20 program to get $20 tickets to any of 20 shows if said tickets are available 20 minutes before curtain. Simple!

Among the available shows, Fela! has quite a bit of potential. Directed and choreographed by Bill T. Jones with arrangements by trombonist Aaron Johnson and Antibalas, the musical tells of the life of African musician/activist Fela Kuti.

Also in the promotion are the venerable Altar Boyz (a favorite of musical maven Myra) and Stomp.

Here's a glimpse of Fela!



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SIMPLY RIDICULOUS. Recent highlights are indented.

Worth1000 Picture of the Day

the whole Mona Lisa
Ocean express

Gallery of the Absurd

The Anna Nicole Smith Media Circus: Prince Von Anhalt
The Anna Nicole Smith Media Circus: Bobby Trendy

EXTRA I learned about the controversy over the recent Village Voice cover depicting Bob Dylan and Kyp Malone of TV on the Radio through the remarks of Martin Perna (of Antibalas and TV on the Radio) in the weekly's letters column. Is the cover racist? I'm not 100% sure about that...but I do think that the David O'Keefe illustration--which I hardly even noticed on my own--was a bad editorial choice for many of the reasons that Perna offers. Dylan and TV on the Radio were in a virtual dead heat in the Pazz & Jop poll, but the image just doesn't respect or even convey their mutually strong performance. Showing them racing neck-and-neck would have captured the reality and perhaps piqued interest in learning the outcome. In Rob Harvilla's words, it was "the narrowest and gnarliest finish in Pazz & Jop history."