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Sarafina! is a South African musical by Mbongeni Ngema depicting students involved in the Soweto Riots, in opposition to apartheid. It was also adapted into a 1992 film starring Whoopi Goldberg and Leleti Khumalo. Sarafina! premiered on Broadway on January 28, 1988, at the Cort Theatre, and closed on July 2, 1989, after 597 performances and 11 previews. The musical was conceived and directed by Mbongeni Ngema, who also wrote the book, music, and lyrics. The play was first presented at The Market Theatre, Johannesburg, South Africa, in June 1987. The cast included Leleti Khumalo as Sarafina.
Leleti Khumalo received a Tony Award nomination, Best Featured Actress in a Musical, as well as a NAACP Image Award for her Broadway theatre portrayal of the title character. The production was also nominated for the Tony Award for: Best Musical, Best Original Score, Best Choreography, and Best Direction of a Musical.
The show presents a school uprising similar to the Soweto uprising on June 16, 1976. A narrator introduces several characters among them the schoolgirl activist Sarafina. Things get out of control when a policeman shoots several pupils in a classroom. Nevertheless, the musical ends with a cheerful farewell show of pupils leaving school, which takes most of the second act.

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  • GOD/ESS BLESS YOU ALL US ALL MOONWOLFEAGLEZ

  • Is that cool .....

  • reason why am proud to be south africa,i really miss home

  • @tamaduni

    It is this generation or we perish

  • All of us may not live to see the higher accomplishments of an African empire, so strong and powerful as to compel the respect of mankind, but we in our lifetime can so work and act as to make the dream a possibility within another generation."

    Marcus Garvey

  • Gosh! this song just made my blood run faster, hotter and even more energetic than before.

  • C'est mon cas aujourd'hui =) !

  • C'est le cas d'aujourd'hui =) !

  • time is jesus inspiration

  • Syrian and Palestine brothers and sisters, do not despair because

    FREEDOM IS COMING TOMORROW!!!

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