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Fela!‘s Broadway Chorus to Receive Equity ACCA Award

A scene from Fela!
(© Monique Carboni)
A scene from Fela!
(© Monique Carboni)

The chorus of the Broadway musical Fela! will receive the Actors’ Equity Association Advisory Committee on Chorus Affairs’ Fourth Annual ACCA Award for Outstanding Broadway Chorus in a ceremony to be held in Equity’s headquarters on September 28.

The recipients, all of whom were part of the company when the musical opened on November 23, 2009, are Corey Baker, Hettie Vyrine Barnhill, Lauren De Veaux, Nicole de Weever, Elasea Douglas, Rujeko Dumbutshena, Catherine Foster, Raaen-Elijah “Talu” Green, Shaneeka Harrell, Chanon Judson, Abena Koomson, Ismael Kouyate, Gelan Lambert, Jr., Farai M. Malianga, Shakira Marshall, Afi McClendon, Adesola A. Osakalumi, Jeffrey Page, Daniel Soto, Jill Marie Vallery, J.L. Williams, Iris L. Wilson, and Aimee Graham Wodobode.

The other nominated choruses for the awards were: American Idiot, La Cage Aux Folles, Come Fly Away and Memphis. The ACCA award was created to acknowledge the enormous talent and contributions members of a chorus make to a Broadway musical.

For more information on the Broadway production of Fela!, click here.