LONG LIVE ZAKES MOKAE, LONG LIVE

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The versatile South African actor who starred on Broadway (he won a Tony Award in 1982 for his performance on Broadway in Athol Fugard’s “Master Harold and the Boys”) and in Hollywood films (he was brilliant in Euzhan Palzy’s “Dry White Season”) despite Apartheid, has died in Las Vegas.

From The New York Times obituary:

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FELA KUTI IS COMING TO BROADWAY

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Fela!,” the Bill T. Jones musical about the life of the Nigerian Afrobeat king, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, is opening on Broadway on October 19.

I had tickets during the show’s short Off-Broadway run last year, but on a night when the show was canceled. This time I won’t miss it.

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