So folks I'm sitting here in the dressing room of the Club Nokia and I'm feeling so blessed and inspired. As we are going through the numbers and realizing minute by minute that Monday is closer than we know.
When asking 2 of the leads of Phi'LA The Musical, Godwin Thurton & Walter Catalan who play 2 battling gangters trying to protect their hood and their ethnic background, about their feelings of being here they had this to say:
Danyol: So Godwin how are you feeling knowing that you're opening at the Club Nokia?
Godwin: I'm ecstatic, excited and grateful.
Danyol: What are you grateful for specifically?
Godwin: For being a part of something that can help change our community.
Danyol: What is the one thing you want people to walk away from this play with?
Godwin: To know that there are issue in Los Angeles that need to be dealt with.
Danyol: What's the most exciting thing about being a part of Phi'LA The Musical?
Walter: One exciting thing is being around people that come from different places and getting to know them. Also the rush of being on the stage.
Danyol: Where do you want this play to go?
Walter: I want it to reach everybody that still have it in their mind that there's racial tension in their community. All the urban neighborhoods that live this everyday.
Danyol: What do you want people to take from this play when they leave?
Walter: That all this racial tension is stupid and that it needs to stop before more people die.
Opening Monday, October 12th, 2009 at 8pm at the Club Nokia, those who don't take the opportunity to come see this musical will be missing an enormous part of Los Angeles history. Filled with love, tension, social issues and positive change Phi'LA The Musical is the beginning of a new rising phenomenon.
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