Aimee Graham

This is the short list of how the women of ''Fela!,'' the Broadway musical about the Nigerian Afrobeat musician and political agitator, do not see their characters: victims, go-go dancers, sex objects. The nine women in tight outfits, elaborate hairdos and painted faces represent the 27 real-life co-wives of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, who married them

Toward the end of ''Time Code,'' Ana Pauls (Mia Maestro), a fetching young avant-garde filmmaker in a minimal black dress, arrives at the offices of Red Mullet Productions to pitch a project to a roomful of harried executives. Accompanied by the spacey hip-hop stylings of her boyfriend (Alessandro Nivola), she drops names -- Leibniz, Eisenstein,