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NEW YORK TIMES
“Ntozake Shange’s canonical choreopoem “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf” opened on Broadway 50 years ago. Now it has been adapted into an opera, with Shange’s text set to the composer Natalie Brown’s music. Ellenore Scott directs this one-night-only staging. (April 6, Jazz at Lincoln Center)”
“These hidden laborers had untold stories — sometimes obscured by time, trauma or both — that are inspiring the creative team developing a dramatized opera. The sung narrative, which remains a work in progress, shares a title with “All That Remains,” a 2024 hardbound retelling of news articles about these laborers that journalist Steve Wick wrote in the 2000s. A preview of the production is slated for July 19 at Sylvester Manor on Shelter Island as one of this year’s classical music events hosted by the Rites of Spring, a Southold-based nonprofit.”
“This year marks the 50th anniversary of Ntozake Shange's powerful choreopoem, "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf."
To mark this milestone, Lincoln Center's American Songbook series is presenting a re-imagined, musical treatment of the classic. It tells the stories of seven women who have suffered the indignities of a racist and sexist society.”
“A reckoning of identity and family, “Little White Lies” by Natalie Brown ’25 is an enigmatic musical that transcends barriers of time…
“It’s ultimately a story about family legacy,” said Brown. “We have to face our histories head on, or we will continue to make mistakes.””