Stephanie on August 13, 2008 at 4:31 am (1 month, 3 weeks ago)
Singer India Arie will have to wait a little longer to make her Broadway debut. A revival of Ntozake Shange’s “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf,” which was to have starred the Grammy-winning singer, has been postponed. The delay occurred because the loss of one of the production’s backers, producers Whoopi Goldberg and DreamTeam Entertainment Group announced Wednesday. No word on when the show would be rescheduled. The play, directed by Shirley Jo Finney and choreographed by Hinton Battle, was to have opened Sept. 8 at Circle in the Square. “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.
Stephanie on June 19, 2008 at 12:37 am (3 months, 2 weeks ago)
Two of my favorite, and most underrated women in the women in the music business today, India Arie and Heather Headley, have both parted ways with their respective record labels. India has left Universal Motown Records for parent company Universal Records. The singer reportedly no longer wanted to work with Sylvia Rhone, the head of Motown, because of creative differences the two had over India’s last album, “Testimony”, which debuted at #1 on the charts. India felt Testimony didn’t do as well as it could because of poor promotion on the part of the label. Sylvia Rhone has a reputation for being “difficult” and shelving and/or delaying albums. During her Elektra Records tenure she shelved/delayed albums from Nicole Wray, Gina Thompson, and Lil’ Mo. Most recently Mya’s “Liberation” album was shelved which was due to be released through Universal Motown Records.
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Stephanie on May 7, 2008 at 1:13 am (5 months ago)
Singer
Alicia Keys performed before a sold out crowd at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California on Monday night. Ne-Yo was on hand to open up for the singer and quite a few celebrities took in the show as well, with reports of both
Gabrielle Union and Britney Spears being in the audience. Next up for Alicia is a performance on Ellen and after that reports have Alicia mentoring
Jennifer Hudson and possibly doing writing and production work on her debut CD, along with
India Arie.
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Singer India Arie will have to wait a little longer to make her Broadway debut. A revival of Ntozake Shange’s “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf,” which was to have starred the Grammy-winning singer, has been postponed. The delay occurred because the loss of one of the production’s backers, producers Whoopi Goldberg and DreamTeam Entertainment Group announced Wednesday. No word on when the show would be rescheduled. The play, directed by Shirley Jo Finney and choreographed by Hinton Battle, was to have opened Sept. 8 at Circle in the Square. “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.
