The choreography of Entozac Shange began in March at the Booth Theater, where the original works from 1976 were located.

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The previously announced Broadway production of Ntozake Shange's 1976 "For Girls of Color Who Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf", directed by Camille A. Brown, has now confirmed its release date. The producer announced on Monday that the show will open at the Booth Theatre on March 24 after the preview begins on March 4, 2022.

Brown will direct her debut debut on Broadway, and she will re-interpret Shange’s choreography and critically acclaimed choreography for director Leah C. Gardiner in 2019 for the Public Theater. But this Broadway work choreographed by Brown will be completely reimagined.

Brown said at a press conference on Monday: "In all the shows that have the opportunity to debut as a Broadway director and choreographer for the first time,'For girls of color...' it feels like a gift." "I I am very happy to be commissioned to combine all of my parts-dance, music and theater art-to shape and share this eternal story with the world again."

Shangge's iconic work combines poems, songs and dances, telling the stories of seven women whose identities are only identified by the tones of the dresses they wear. In a review of the recent Broadway revival, Ben Brantley detailed some of the show's history as it evolved from bars and clubs to "one of the most unexpected dramas that emerged from the chaotic 1970s." He added: "Shangge's free-form text is neither linear nor literal. It depicts black women trying to make their voices heard from a society that ignores or actively suppresses them."

Shange inspired many people. After her death in 2018, people renewed interest in her work. The playwright Keenan Scott II attributed Shange's "Girls of Color" to the original inspiration for his Broadway debut, "The Ideas of Colored People." He recently stated that the class screening of Shangge's work during college was his first—and his only—exposure to the drama of a black playwright at the time.

Brown was nominated for a Tony Award for his choreography in "The Choir Boys." She recently choreographed and co-directed the Terrence Blanchard opera "Fire in my bones shut up", which premiered at the Metropolitan Opera in September. The dance critic Gia Kourlas of The Times said that the number of steps Brown took for the opera "brought the show to a halt."

The casting will be announced later.