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it opened again Sept. 8, 2008 and the title is "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf"
The poetry in "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow is Enuf" was written by Ntozake Shange.
American Playhouse - 1981 For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf 1-7 was released on: USA: 23 February 1982
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The easiest way is to buy the book. You can get it for less then $10 including shipping and handling off of eBay or Amazon. Otherwise you can look up some of the poems on Youtube.
You can find excerpts from different monologues on Youtube. Tyler Perry is currently working on a sceen adaption due to come out later this year. There was also a version on PBS' "American Playhouse" series, recorded in 1982.
A choreopoem is a form of theatrical performance that combines poetry, music, dance, and other dramatic elements to convey a message or tell a story. It was popularized by Ntozake Shange's "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf."
5 movies:*Poetic Justice 1993*Nutty Professor II: The Klumps 2000*Why Did I Get Married? 2007*Why Did I Get Married Too? 2010and in 2011 she is staring in another film called:*For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf
I believe it may have been. I also remember seeing it as a play on PBS when I was a child about 30yrs. ago.
Kamikazes were considered suicide pilots.
Bakers Plays, Dramatists Play Service or Samuel French. Probably all three carry it and can tell you who will license it to you.
I think it was a play and then a tv movie on American Playhouse(heavily edited) in 1982.The off Broadway play ran in NYC in 1976. .