You Can’t Fake the Funk | Theater Review | Podcast

An entertaining show-lounge style cabaret performance. “You Can’t Fake the Funk (A Journey Through Funk Music) presented by Chicago’s Black Ensemble Theater,  works hard to “turn this mutha out.”

Writer/director Daryl D. Brooks wants us to party and the music aboard the “Mothership” makes this journey worth the trip — after all FUNK is mostly F.U.N.

“Word up,” so even if you’re not a “Superfreak” you won’t feel like you got the “Shaft” as this funky production lights up the finale with George Clinton’s Funkadelic “Flashlight.”

“You Can’t Fake the Funk (A Journey Through Funk Music) is at Black Ensemble Theater, 4450 N. Clark Street, Chicago, through September 8, 2019. Running time is about two hours with one intermission. For tickets and information visit blackensembletheater.org or call (773) 769-4451.

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