Updated: 6/25/2008
India.Arie on Broadway produced by Whoopi Goldberg. The Grammy-winning singer will make her Broadway debut in a revival of Ntozake Shange's ''For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf.''
She will open in the play Sept. 8 at Circle in the Square.
Preview performances begin Aug. 19 in what will be a revised and updated version of the play, which was an off-Broadway hit for the Public Theater in 1976 before transferring to Broadway for a run of more than 700 performances.
The new production will be directed by Shirley Jo Finney and choreographed by Hinton Battle, a three-time Tony winner.
''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.
Goldberg has been involved in productions of ''Thoroughly Modern Millie,'' her own ''Whoopi ... The 20th Anniversary'' and a revival of August Wilson's ''Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.''
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