The show, featuring singer India.Arie in her Broadway debut, was scheduled to open September 8, but the production has suffered a setback after donors pulled out<--more--> over concerns about the title of Nitozake Shange's play.
Goldberg, who is among the producers of the show, says, "We had a couple of major donors who didn't look at the title. They said, 'We can't say for coloued girls or suicide - we certainly can't say them in the same sentence.' I was like, 'Did you not know this play?'
"But more money is coming in," she added, insisting that the show will go on. Producers, however, have yet to announce when the play will be rescheduled.
For Colored Girls..., a prose-poem portrait of black women in America, originally featured Shange and Trazana Beverley, who won a Tony for her performance. It was an off-Broadway hit for the Public Theater in 1976 before transferring to Broadway for a run of more than 700 performances.
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