Of all the new shows to open on Broadway so far this season, none has been anything like Fela!, the tuner that tells the life story of pioneering musician and political activist Fela Anikulapo Kuti. Fusing Afrobeat music and the innovative staging and choreography of director/creator Bill T. Jones, the show is the sort of high-octane, high-brow, real-life musical ...

It has been nearly 50 years since Finian's Rainbow, the classic musical packed with jazz and American songbook standards, was last seen on a Broadway stage. On October 29 the tuner officially returned, bringing the story of Irishman Finian, his daughter Sharon, a stolen pot of gold and the topsy-turvy land of Missitucky back for audiences—including WOM panelists ...