Whoopi Goldberg to produce Broadway play
Grammy winning R&B artist India Arie will star in a Broadway revival of the play “For Colored Girls who have considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf.” The play, which was first performed in the 1970s, addresses the lives of seven different women of color.
View host Whoopi Goldberg will be the producer of the play, along with Dream Team entertainment. It is expected to debut in previews in mid-July. The play will be directed by Shirley Jo Finney and choreographed by Hinton Battle, a three-time Tony winner.
Whoopi Goldberg, of course, is no stranger to Broadway as an actress. She, of course, had her one woman show on Broadway in in the 1980s and appeared in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum in the 1990s. Whoopi also knows a thing or two about producing for Broadway, as she won the Tony as the producer for Throughly Modern Millie, which won for best musical in 2002.
I am not sure how hands-on a producer Whoopi will be for this new play and if she intends to have extensive involvement, I really don’t see how she will have the time. Although The View will go on hiatus sometime during the summer, it probably won’t be until August, when the new play is already through previews. If she intends to continue to do her radio show, then go to The View, and then spend her afternoons at play rehearsals, she will be even sleepier than she is now! Perhaps, though, her involvement will be more monetary than hands-on?
Source: Billboard
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March 14th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
“She will be even sleepier than she is now!”
Ha, ha! That was my first thought when I read your post. Maybe producing this play will bring more excitment to her than hosting
“The View”!