sought after choreographers of our generation. Still, when she was tapped to both choreograph and direct the revival of Ntzoake Shange’s for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, she was afraid.“It was an umbrella of fear for many reasons,” Brown tells ESSENCE. “The fear was ‘Oh my gosh, I’m being asked to direct and choreograph for Broadway.
It’s my Broadway debut. The stakes are the highest they’ve ever been. Everybody’s going to be watching. What do I do?’”Thankfully, Brown was bolstered by friends and family who reminded her of her resume and the fact that she had been directing and choreographing for more than 15 years.
They assured her that while she was bound to learn something new, she shouldn’t forget what she already knew. But Brown was also plagued by the history associated with for colored girls.“This is a legacy piece,” Brown says. “Everybody knows it.
You have people literally reciting lines in the theater while the actress is on stage delivering the poem. It’s over 40 years old.
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