'Colored' revival set for Sept. 8
Drama produced by Whoopi Goldberg
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Described as a re-envisioned staging of the groundbreaking 1976 play about the identity and inner strength of black women in America, the production will be directed by Rialto newcomer Shirley Jo Finney and choreographed by multiple Tony winner Hinton Battle.
A director and actress who has worked at leading regional theaters around the country including the McCarter, Goodman, Pasadena Playhouse, Mark Taper Forum and Actors’ Theater of Louisville Humana Festival, Finney began her association with the producer when she directed a 2005 stage adaptation of Goldberg’s children’s book “Alice” at the Kennedy Center and subsequently on tour.
Goldberg will partner with DreamTeam Entertainment Group on the project, which has been booked as an open-ended run. Her prior Broadway producing credits include the 2002 musical “Thoroughly Modern Millie” and the 2003 revival of August Wilson’s “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” in which she also starred.
Two-time Grammy-winning singer-songwriter India.Arie will make her Broadway debut, heading a cast of seven on “For Colored Girls,” which combines prose poems and stories, choreographed and set to music. The show premiered Off Broadway in 1976 at the Public Theater before transferring to the Main Stem later that year for a successful run of 876 performances.
Complete casting is due to be announced soon for the revival, which will feature new and updated material by Shange. Harold Wheeler will serve as musical director, with sets by Scott Bradley, costumes by Paul Tazewell, lighting by Victor Tan and sound by Mitch Greenhill.
The Circle in the Square was home for the past three years to “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” which closed in January. The theater was then suddenly vacated when critically maligned musical “Glory Days” opened and closed the same night early last month.
