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"For Colored Girls Who Who Have Considered Suicide-When The Rainbow US Enuf" has received critical acclaim for being one of the best shows of the year. The play opens August 1st and ends the 26th at the Geary Theatre, A.C.T. 450 Geary Blvd, San Francisco. "For Colored Girls" now is in its second year on Broadway.
Ntozake Shange's "choreo poem" "For Colored Girls..." started as a series of readings given by her in a small bar outside Berkeley in the early 1970s. Dance elements and other actresses were gradually added in other bars, schools and lofts in San Francisco and later in New York, where Oz Scott was enlisted as director to shape the material into a theater piece.
Shange's work gives eloquent voice to the joys and anguish of women in general and of Black women in particular. Although not the usual Broadway fare, the unique theater event is still playing to capacity houses, Black and White, there and has also everywhere the national company has toured.
The cast includes seven actresses, all of whom dance and sing. The single setting was designed by Ming Cho Lee with lighting by Jennifer Tipton and costumes by Judy Dearing. Choreography is by Paula Moss, who joined Shange at the earlier reading stages of the show, and special music was composed by Diana Wharton.
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