Hollywood/Hip Hop Heavy Weights Put They Money Up !!!!Congrats to Everybody nominated, peep the list down below, & Will & Jada Smith, and Sean “Jay-Z” Carter !

*****11 TONY Nominations for FELA!*****
VIA the “FELA” blog
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Tuesday, May 4, 2010:

A Landmark Day for the Cast & Crew of FELA! Two years ago FELA! played to sold-out houses Off Broadway at 37 Arts. The production was bold, the dancers were beautiful and the music pierced your heart with its clarity and power. Since then, nothing has changed—and everything has changed. We’re a hit ON Broadway, we have the most diverse and fascinating audience in the history of New York theatre, our cast and crew reach new heights of athleticism, artistry and imagination eight shows a week and now we’ve been nominated for 11 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Actor in a Musical, Best Choreographer and Best Director. We are loving life today. Everybody, please, say Yeah Yeah!

FELA! Nominated for:
Best Musical
Best Book of a Musical: Jim Lewis & Bill T. Jones
Best Actor: Sahr Ngaujah
Best Featured Actress: Lillias White
Best Direction: Bill T. Jones
Best Choreography: Bill T. Jones
Best Orchestrations: Aaron Johnson
Best Scenic Design: Marina Draghici
Best Costume Design: Marina Draghici
Best Lighting Design: Robert Wierzel
Best Sound Design: Robert Kaplowitz

“We examine “Blacks on Broadway” with Headliners Kerry Washington and David Alan Grier, who co-star in the current play, “Race.” Our Roundtable discussion looks at the barriers that African Americans face getting on stage with panelists Lamman Rucker, who stars in the new Off-Broadway production of “Black Angels Over Tuskegee”; Kevin Mambo, who stars in the musical “Fela!”; and Stephanie Umoh, who just finished a run in the Broadway hit, “Ragtime.” -VIA B.E.

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Born in Kansas City, Missouri and raised in San Pedro, California, Misty Copeland began her ballet studies at the age of 13 at the San Pedro Dance Center. At the age of fifteen she won first place in the Music Center Spotlight Awards. She then began her studies at the Lauridsen Ballet Center. Copeland has studied at the San Francisco Ballet School and American Ballet Theatre’s Summer Intensive on full scholarship and was declared ABT’s National Coca-Cola Scholar in 2000. She has danced Kitri in Don Quixote and the Sugar Plum Fairy and Clara in The Nutcracker.

Copeland joined ABT’s Studio Company in September 2000 and then joined American Ballet Theatre as a member of the corps de ballet in April 2001.

Her roles with the Company include a Shade and the Lead D’Jampe in La Bayadère, the Mazurka Lady in Coppélia, an Odalisque and Gulnare in Le Corsaire, the lead gypsy and a flower girl in Don Quixote, the Masks in Christopher Wheeldon’s VIII, the peasant pas de deux in Giselle, a Gypsy in Petrouchka, the Lead Polovtsian Girl in Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor, the Saracen Dancer in Raymonda, a Harlot in Romeo and Juliet, the Fairy of Valor in The Sleeping Beauty, the pas de trois, a cygnet and the Hungarian Princess in Swan Lake, the Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux and roles in Airs, Amazed in Burning Dreams, Baker’s Dozen, Ballo della Regina, Brief Fling, Company B, Désir, Gong, Hereafter, In The Upper Room, Overgrown Path, Pretty Good Year, Sechs Tänze, Sinatra Suite, Sinfonietta, Within You Without You: A Tribute to George Harrison and workwithinwork.

Copeland created leading role in C. to C. (Close to Chuck) and Glow-Stop and was appointed a Soloist in August 2007.
Copeland is a receipient of a 2008 Leonore Annenberg Fellowship in the Arts.
Ms. Copeland’s performance’s with American Ballet Theatre are sponsored by Susan Fales-Hill.
Short Bio VIA American Ballet Theatre