*Please note: This performance contains adult themes and strong language. Audience discretion is advised; this show is intended for ages 13+.

Ntozake Shange’s enduring, epochal choreopoem for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf celebrates its 50th anniversary with a reimagined musical treatment. In collaboration with Lincoln Center Visionary Artist Jeanine Tesori, composer Natalie Brown brings new dimensions to for colored girls, setting its text to song and extending the legacy of this canonical work. By weaving melody into Shange’s rhythm and language, Brown opens new points of access to its lasting themes of resilience, identity, and womanhood. Directed by Ellenore Scott, choreographer of the recent Broadway run of Lincoln Center Theater’s revival of Ragtime, this presentation honors the original work’s groundbreaking impact while boldly reframing it for a contemporary audience. Together, Brown and Scott illuminate for colored girls‘ brilliance and breathe new life into the poetry, musicality, and movement essential to the original production. This project asks what it means to carry forward an American cultural legacy; and how music can deepen the resonance of words that have already changed the world.