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The earlier declared Broadway manufacturing of Ntozake Shange’s 1976 “for coloured women who have viewed as suicide/when the rainbow is enuf,” directed by Camille A. Brown, now has an opening day. After commencing previews on March 4, 2022, the show will open up on March 24 at the Booth Theater, producers declared Monday.
Brown, who will be building her Broadway directorial debut, choreographed the director Leah C. Gardiner’s well-acquired 2019 revival of Shange’s choreopoem for the General public Theater. But this Broadway creation, which Brown will also choreograph, will be entirely reimagined.
“Of all the demonstrates to be specified as an possibility to debut as a 1st-time Broadway director and choreographer, “for coloured ladies …” feels like a gift,” Brown stated in a information release Monday. “I’m thrilled that I have been entrusted to merge all the parts of myself — dance, music and theater arts — to form and share this timeless story again with the planet.”
Shange’s landmark get the job done incorporates poetry, music and dance to explain to the stories of seven girls who are discovered only by the hues of the dresses they use. In his evaluation of the recent Off Broadway revival, Ben Brantley thorough some of the show’s heritage as it made its way from bars and clubs to turn into “one of the most unpredicted theater hits to emerge from the chaotic 1970s.” He included: “Shange’s absolutely free-sort textual content was neither linear nor literal in its depiction of Black gals struggling to declare their very own voices from a modern society that had possibly dismissed or actively silenced them.”
Shange has motivated lots of, and her loss of life in 2018 prompted a renewed desire in her get the job done. The playwright Keenan Scott II has credited Shange’s “for colored girls” as an initial inspiration for his debut Broadway generation, “Thoughts of a Coloured Person.” He not long ago mentioned that in school, a class screening of the Shange function was his to start with — and primarily his only — exposure to theater by Black playwrights at the time.
Brown is a Tony Award nominee for her choreography in “Choir Boy.” She most recently choreographed and co-directed the Terence Blanchard opera “Fire Shut Up in My Bones,” which debuted at the Metropolitan Opera in September. The Times’s dance critic Gia Kourlas explained Brown’s stage number for the opera “stops the show in its tracks.”
Casting will be announced at a later date.
