The funk and attitude of Shaft is being celebrated at the Apollo Theater on February 29 with a screening of the 1971 film set to a live concert performance of its award-winning score.
If you think this sounds like a fun night out, "you're damn right." Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber and its conductor Greg Tate will play "Theme from Shaft," which was No. 1 on the Billboard Top 40 and won a Grammy for "Best Original Song," among its other funk-tastic tunes.
Richard Roundtree starred at the private detective, who is hired to rescue the daughter of a Harlem mobster from Italian gangsters who kidnapped her. The flick, which was filmed in Harlem, Greenwich Village and Times Square, was selected in 2000 for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
The Apollo is encouraging people to come dressed in their Black Power-inspired fashion and is offering 50 percent off tickets for Harlem residents, employees, business owners and students at the box office with proof of residence or work ID.
Can you dig it?