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Fri 08 Aug 2007Stage StruckPeter Crawleyon the connection between words and music.There's no such thing as "musical theatre" in Nigeria, because, in Nigeria, there's no such thing as a theatre without music. The African tradition of "total theatre" makes no distinctions between acting, music, dance, rhythm and storytelling. As that accidental theatre theorist John Lennon put it, there's nothing you can say that can't be sung.