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him. Beau Willie tried to get veterans' benefits but he cannot read, so he starts driving a cab around the city but the cops always give him a hard time and he is not making any money. The lady in orange and red say that
Crystal is pregnant again and Beau beats Crystal almost to death when he hears about her pregnancy. Beau Willie has wanted to marry Crystal since she was 14, but now she laughs in his face saying she will never marry him. She has the baby and there are now two kids, Naomi and Kwame. Crystal ends up getting a court order to keep Beau away from her and the children. Beau Willie comes to the house despite the court order and while he is there he becomes apologetic saying he just wants to marry her and give her things. The two children run to their father as Crystal watches. Suddenly, he grabs the kids and pushes the screen out of the window. Beau Willie tells Crystal she has to agree to marry him. Naomi and Kwame scream and Crystal, at the moment, can only whisper. Beau Willie drops the kids out of the window and they die.
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relationship, and her friend tells her they have seen her lover outside the gay bars. The lady in yellow protests, but her friend tells her to get tested. The lady in yellow goes to get tested to put the whole issue to bed. Two weeks later, the doctor calls the lady in yellow with her patient number (#7QYG9) to inform her that she is HIV positive. The lady in yellow confronts her lover who furiously tells her he is not gay and accuses her of cheating on him. She tells him to get tested but he gets angrier and violent. He throws her to the ground and when she wakes up he is gone and she says, "& i was positive / & not positive at all".
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open for a man, but still she was missing something. Finally, all the ladies repeat the lines she says, "i found god in myself / & i loved her / I loved her fiercely". They sing to each other and then the audience, and close into a tight circle with each other. The choreopoem ends with lady in brown modifying her earlier statement: "& this is for colored girls who have considered suicide/ but are movin to the ends of their own rainbows."
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She was "hot / a deliberate coquette". Her goal was to be unforgettable. She takes "those especially schemin/ tactful suitors" to go home with her. In the morning, she becomes her ordinary self by washing off the glitter and the grime from the night before. She asks her lovers to leave. The men would leave in a hurry, and then she cleaned up and put her roses away. She would write about her exploits in her diary and then, cry herself to sleep.
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assigned. They are the lady in red, lady in orange, lady in yellow, lady in green, lady in blue, lady in brown, and lady in purple. Subjects from rape, abandonment, abortion and domestic violence are tackled. Shange originally wrote the monologues as separate poems in 1974. Her writing style is idiosyncratic and she often uses vernacular language, unique structure, and unorthodox punctuation to emphasize syncopation. Shange wanted to write
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if her friends could hold out. One day she found the rose she left on his pillow on her friend's desk. The friend said she did not know what was going on, because the man said he was free. The three friends did not want to hurt one another but they know how wonderful this man could be. The friends hug and cry and go to confront the man, whom they find with another woman. The women cry and comfort each other like sisters.
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rapist if they are a perverted stranger. The women talk about male friends of theirs who have nice smiles and buy them dinner but end up raping women. The women all share the experience of having been violated by a man they knew while being on the lookout for "the stranger we always thot it wd be". The lady in red states that the "nature of rape has changed." The lights change, the women react to an imaginary slap.
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in what she believes to be a real and honest relationship. Yet, the guy keeps going back to his ex-lover. The lady in orange tried to move on by finding another lover, but she was not satisfied. She tried to avoid sadness, but she found herself heartbroken by this man. She could not stand being "sorry & colored at the same time / it's so redundant in the modern world".
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declares that she does not need any more apologies. She goes on to say that men should keep their apologies for themselves, because she does not need them to soothe her soul and she cannot use them. Rather than accepting apologies, she is going to do whatever she wants: yell, scream, and break things. And she will not apologize for any of it.
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The ladies begin the last poem saying that they are missing something: a "layin on of hands". The hands are strong, cool, moving, and make them whole and pure. The lady in blue says she feels the gods coming into her, laying her open to herself. She goes on to say that she knows about laying her body
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The lady in purple speaks about her relationship to dance and men. She deliberately chooses to dance with men who do not speak
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The lady in blue talks about how hard it is to press charges against a friend. The other women begin to ponder and ask questions. They say that maybe it was a misunderstanding, or the woman caused it, and they ask her if she was drinking. The lady in red states that society only believes someone is a
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The lady in orange begins the story of Willie Brown by saying there is no air. Beau Willie is all tied up in the sheets, wishing a friend would come over and bring him some blow or any other kind of drug. The lady in red continues the story, saying that Beau Willie claims there is nothing wrong with
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The lady in blue proclaims that they all deal with too much emotion and that it might be easier to be white. That way they could make everything "dry & abstract wit no rhythm & no / reelin for sheer sensual pleasure". The lady in blue states that they should try to control their feelings and
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The lady in purple joins the ladies in blue, yellow, and orange. She starts by describing them as three friends who shared every aspect of their lives. They remember a time when they all were attracted to the same man, but he only could choose one of them. The one who he chose loved him, but worried
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The lady in red enters begins by describing a beautiful woman wearing orange butterflies, silk roses, and aqua sequins. This woman is deliberate in all her actions. Although she walked slowly to allow men to gaze at her, she never returned their interest with a smile or acknowledging their catcalls.
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The lady in orange discusses a relationship that left her heartbroken. She says that ever since she realized that someone would call a "colored girl an evil woman a bitch or a nag" (56) she has tried not to be that person. She tries to not only give joy, but to receive it as well. She finds herself
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The lady in blue begins her monologue by explaining that she used to live in the world but now only lives in Harlem, and her universe is only six blocks. She used to walk all over the world and now her world is small and dirty. The lady in blue says that when she used to live in the world where she
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The lady in yellow says it was graduation night and she was the only virgin. She was out driving around with her male friends who she has known since the seventh grade in a black Buick, laughing about graduation. After a fight breaks out, the lady in yellow and Bobby leave and end up having sex in
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The lady in red addresses an ambiguous "you" throughout the monologue. She has loved this "you" strongly and passionately "for 8 months, 2 wks, & a day" without any encouragement. She decides to end this affair and leaves a note attached to a plant that she has watered every day since she met
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The lady in yellow claims to have lost touch with reality because she used to think she was immune to emotional pain, but she realized she is not. She gave her dance, but her dance was not enough. She says "bein alive & bein a woman & bein colored is a metaphysical / dilemma / i haven't
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The lady in purple describes Sechita's life in the bayou, while lady in green dances out Sechita's life. She is dressed up for the Creole carnival celebration. She embodies the spirit of her namesake, Sechita, the Egyptian goddess of creativity, love, beauty and filth from the 2nd millennium.
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is inspired by events in Shange's life. Shange admitted publicly to having attempted suicide on four occasions. In a phone interview conducted with CNN, she explained how she came to the title of her choreopoem: "I was driving the No. 1 Highway in northern California and I was overcome by the
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The lady in green says that someone has taken all of her "stuff". She feels that she is the only one that knows and can appreciate the value of her stuff. She describes her stuff as the way she sits with her legs open sometimes, her chewed up fingernails, her rhythm, her voice, her talk, her
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Lady in yellow, purple, brown, red participate in reciting the next poem about contracting HIV/AIDS; they share the lines and all speak to one woman's experience. The ladies argue about suspicions of cheating in the relationship. The lady in yellow tells her friends how happy she is in her
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in June 1976. Three months later, in September, the show was performed at the Booth Theater on Broadway, where it was continued until July 1978 and ran for 742 shows. Shange performed as the "lady in orange" at the Broadway opening. It was also published in book form in 1977 by
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appearance of two parallel rainbows. I had a feeling of near death or near catastrophe. Then I drove through the rainbow and I went away. Then I put that together to form the title." The colors of the rainbow then became the essence of the women in the choreopoem.
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for "colored girls who have considered suicide / but moved to the ends of their own rainbows". The women then begin to sing children's nursery rhymes, "mama's little baby likes shortnin, shortnin". Then all the ladies start to dance to the song "
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The other women come and each repeats, "my love is too...delicate/beautiful/sanctified/magic/saturday nite/complicated/music to have thrown back in my face." The ladies begin dancing and chanting together.
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music. She ends her monologue by calling it her poem "thank-you for music," to which she states: "I love you more than poem". She repeats "te amo mas que," and the other women join her, softly chanting.
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reading the children's books. The lady in brown became obsessed with Toussaint despite the fact that he was dead. He was her "secret lover at age 8". The lady in brown wanted to run away to go to
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she is going to take the first step by masturbating. However, she finds that this makes her feel lonely and does not know where to look to feel whole.
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264:"latent rapists'" β Ladies in Red, Blue, Purple
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2611:"Tony Awards 2022: See the list of winners"
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1419:Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play
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529:"no more love poems #3" β Lady in Blue
291:"no more love poems #3" β Lady in Blue
3095:Six Characters in Search of an Author
3067:Obie Award for Best New American Play
2731:Moore, Darnell L. (August 10, 2012),
2146:"Mapping the Legacy β Carol Maillard"
223:Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play
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2704:Braxton, Greg (November 3, 2010).
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450:"abortion cycle #1" β Lady in Blue
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1481:Outstanding Director of a Play
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1327:Best Featured Actress in a Play
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2404:McNary, Dave (25 March 2009).
2151:Performing Arts Legacy Project
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2277:Meyer, Dan (29 July 2021).
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2995:Other works
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2760:February 8,
2717:November 8,
2690:November 8,
2652:BWW, Team.
2569:November 2,
2157:23 December
2130:23 December
2089:23 December
1760:February 8,
1615:Vulture.com
1567:Paul Davis.
1551:Jasmine Guy
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1541:, Freddie (
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1533:Season Four
1312:Tony Awards
1182:Tony Awards
992:Tyler Perry
898:: Georgetta
751:Tyler Perry
66:Lady in Red
3424:1975 plays
3418:Categories
3311:4000 Miles
3295:The Aliens
3163:Short Eyes
3143:Bad Habits
3079:The Blacks
2663:2022-04-28
2638:2022-04-28
2390:2022-06-02
2365:2022-05-03
2313:2021-08-17
2288:2021-08-17
1622:2020-10-31
1595:2020-10-31
1572:References
1497:Nominated
1489:Nominated
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1196:Nominated
1144:, and Cast
1130:Obie Award
914:Roger Hill
873:Good Times
868:choreopoem
721:Aku Kadogo
697:Townsville
647:opened at
209:), a 1982
144:choreopoem
121:Choreopoem
99:1976-09-15
60:Characters
50:Written by
2926:Works of
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1297:Category
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985:Lionsgate
763:Lionsgate
689:Melbourne
353:June 2023
3347:Hamilton
2985:spell #7
2861:Playbill
2778:Archived
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2441:The Root
2417:28 April
2385:Deadline
2333:Playbill
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2283:Playbill
2124:AusStage
2099:cite web
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1237:Oz Scott
1142:Oz Scott
1002:Precious
858:Oz Scott
846:station
821:D. Woods
749:In 2009
734:In 1982
729:Oz Scott
705:Brisbane
681:Adelaide
386:abortion
317:Synopsis
189:Iraq War
176:Broadway
3393:English
3319:Detroit
3195:Cloud 9
2959:Liliane
2873:Variety
2840:at the
2829:at the
2411:Variety
2243:May 11,
2215:May 11,
2185:May 11,
1547:Whitley
1303:Result
1173:Result
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972:Variety
848:WNET-TV
343:Please
336:may be
125:Tragedy
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3396:(2023)
3388:(2019)
3380:(2018)
3372:(2017)
3358:(2016)
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3342:(2014)
3328:(2013)
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1840:May 3,
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701:Cairns
693:Sydney
3203:Spunk
2970:Plays
2077:(PDF)
1812:S2CID
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1788:Signs
1727:3 May
1717:(PDF)
1308:2022
1291:Year
1178:1977
1161:Year
1111:1977
1094:Year
478:Haiti
244:Poems
229:Title
117:Genre
3369:Oslo
3292:and
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2803:ISBN
2762:2016
2719:2010
2692:2010
2571:2010
2419:2019
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2217:2014
2187:2014
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