Previously, I reported that Tyler Perry is going to take a bold new step and adapt a play that isn’t his. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf, by Ntozake Shange is a color-based series of monologues (colors like red and blue, not ethnic colors).

While doing press for Friday’s Tyler Perry release I Can Do Bad All By Myself, Perry gave some details about how he’s going to adapt the play. The characters have been placed in a Crash-like story device where their lives will intertwine even if the characters don’t know it. One character will start a clinic for colored girls, which will also provide an ample stage for the monologues and stories from the play.

Perry also teased that his version of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf would have a “dream cast” of Black and possibly Latina women. To the general press, he said that had made six phone calls thus far and all six actresses contacted were excited to be involved.

Apparently, Wilson Morales of Black Voices, got slightly more information:

Well, while promoting his latest film, ‘I Can Do Bad All By Myself,’ which opens Sept. 11, Perry talked about who he wanted to appear in the movie. Among the chosen few are Oscar winner Halle Berry, Angela Bassett, Ruby Dee, Cicely Tyson, Maya Angelou, Oprah Winfrey, Thandie Newton, Kimberly Elise, Beyonce Knowles, Mariah Carey and Alicia Keys.

I can’t think of anyone on that list who would turn down a chance to talk to the middle class Black audience Perry commands, so I can’t narrow it down at all. When Perry was about to hint further, Lionsgate very kindly told us there would be another press announcement coming up.

From the Latino Review