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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide

Have you ever heard of the term Choreopoem? It's the name of the monologues in theater performances followed by dance and musical numbers. The genre enjoys dabbing in the best elements of dialogues and narration while playing with the music and substance on the stage. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide is an excellent example of such a play, and it’s now coming to Broadway.

Also known as When the Rainbow Is Enough, the play premiered in 1976 and was an instance theater hit. The work is a masterpiece of the writer Ntozake Shange and is considered one of her best stage creations.

One of the best things that the critically acclaimed Broadway run of the production brings to light is the nuances of black literature and the need for more and more black theater narratives. If you want to witness this firsthand, getting tickets to the Broadway show is a must. Book your tickets by scrolling down below!

Celebrating Black Identities And Sisterhood

The play's foundation was laid down by Ntzozake in 1974 when she started reciting it in and around Berkeley. However, the play did not reach Broadway until 1976, with Booth Theatre as the gracious host. Ntzozake becomes the second black woman to reach Broadway with the play. Her monologues and poems have continually explored different ideas about how to portray oppressed and neglected minorities. The latest change is the addition of the poem Positive being added as an ode to the Iraq Wars and its aftermath.

Poems, Music, and Everything In Between

The production is a string of poems taken together and weaved through music. Ntozake has put 20 odd poems celebrating an identity, empowering its voice, and giving black women their fair share.

Paralleling the inherent biases that black women face repeatedly, she uses the color of the skin to determine the whole identity of the women. The play makes you question wherever a person's superficial quality, such as skin, race, or creed, makes them liable to some superior or inferior kind of treatment?

And to accompany each poem, each lady had to be dressed in a different shade to identify them, giving us a visual treat while forcing us to think about social conventions. Therefore, each poem stands out on its own, with music bringing them together. Take a look at all the poems individually and see the powerful message they convey. Some of them include:

• dark phrases
• Graduation nite 
• now I love somebody more than 
• no assistance
• I'm a poet who
• latent rapists'
• abortion cycle #1 
• Wichita

If the titles interest you, you must watch it live to experience all shades of sisterhood and identity. Get the best seats in the house!