Fela: musical about Nigerian music and dance. Didn't like it

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My dad and I got rush tickets to see the musical Fela! Neither of us liked it. It was a lot of energetic Nigerian dancing and music but the main character and the plot (about a guy named Fela who invented a type of music) failed to grip me. I dozed off during a long song by the mother of the main character.

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