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TDF’s Open Doors program graduates its latest group of theatre and dance lovers

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Sahr Nngaujah could very well win a Tony Award for his exceptional performance as Nigerian musician and political activist Fela Kuti in the new Broadway musical Fela!, but on Monday night, a high school student stole his thunder.

While he was making a speech at this year’s graduation ceremony for Theatre Development Fund’s Open Doors Program, Moses Mayungbo, a student at Talent Unlimited High School, asked the crowd if they’d like to see him perform Fela!’s opening monologue. The audience, who was gathered in the auditorium at the Professional Performing Arts School in Manhattan, encouraged him to show what he could do.

For a moment, the kid was Fela, strutting and flirting and boldly announcing his role in history. When he finished, hundreds of people, including students, teachers, and luminaries of theatre and dance, leapt to their feet.

But they weren’t just celebrating his performance. They were celebrating the joy that always accompanies the Open Doors program.

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