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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf

Author(s)

Ntozake Shange (Paulette Williams)

Venue

Royal Alexandra Theatre

Show Run

March 14, 1978 - March 28, 1978

Genre

Drama

Producer/Director

Joseph Papp

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange tells the stories of seven women who have suffered oppression in a racist and sexist society. A unique blend of poetry, music, dance and drama called a “choreopoem,” it “took the theatre world by storm,” noted Jacqueline Trescott in the Washington PostA hit on Broadway, it played at the Royal Alex in March 1978.