Tickets have been sponsored by Broadway legends Chita Rivera, Bebe Neuwirth, “Into The Woods” choreographer Lorin Latarro and “Funny Girl” star Ramin Karimloo.
A Twitter campaign is trying to save “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf” after it was announced this week that the critically acclaimed Broadway show would be closing.
Theater journalist Ayanna Prescod and power publicist Lisa Goldberg have been spearheading the charge,available for free “for any woman, POC, theater student who would like to see the show,” Goldberg posted. Tickets have been sponsored by Broadway legends including Chita Rivera, Bebe Neuwirth, “Into The Woods” choreographer Lorin Latarro, “Funny Girl” star Ramin Karimloo and “Mare of Easttown” actor Joe Tippett.
“My initial tweet was to offer one WOC a pair of tickets … Then I went on to ask someone to match me. Because of the outpouring of love we have so far purchased about 40 pairs of tickets and that doesn’t include people who have branched out to buy. I am overwhelmed,”
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