Broadway Revival of Ntozake Shange's "For Colored Girls" Get Postponed Due To Funding Issues

The highly anticipated revival of Ntozake Shange's " For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf" has been indefinitely postponed for financial reasons. Oscar winner and co-host of The View, Whoopi Goldberg was the primary producer behind this production. This production was also slanted to mark the Broadway debut of singer, India Arie. Let's hope they can get the money together before people start dropping out of the project.

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India Arie To Make Broadway Debut In Whoopie Goldberg Produced Revival Of Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls

This is shaping up to be an exciting new production. They have some big guns. I will be interested to know the rest of the cast. They will have some giant shoes to fill considering that the original cast had Lynn Whitfield and Alfre Woodard. I hope they don't change with Shange's choreopoem in any way.

And maybe black men won't freak out about the play like they did in the 1970s. It's very scary how Shange's words still have the same powerful meaning in 2008. If you have never read this work or it's been a long time, get a copy.

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