The Broadway Year of Whoopi Goldberg
Goldberg Brings (Added) Laughs to Broadway in 2008
In 2008 Whoopi Goldberg brought added attention to Broadway by hosting the 2008 Tony Awards. In the summer of 2008 Goldberg played in Xanadu for a limited run.
In 2008 Goldberg also planned to bring a musical to Broadway called Bricktop, a musical profiling Ada Smith a Parisian light life icon during the 1920s. Plans for Bricktop on Broadway had to be delayed after an investor pulling out of the production.
One of Goldberg’s most famous on screen roles was playing in Sister Act. The film grossed over 100million dollars after being released in 1992. In November 2008, Goldberg announced that she will be producing Sister Act The Musical at the London Palladium. The show will open summer 2009.
In an exclusive Broadway.tv and Broadway Magazine video feature in 2008 at Cooper Union in New York, Goldberg said that she left film because she was not able to be herself. Goldberg says that art, such as theatre, allowed her to be herself and that is what she hopes to devote more work to. Goldberg stressed that it is very important for school children to be provided with opportunities to express themselves through art.
Goldberg’s talent perpetuates in 2008, on stage, on camera, and through her efforts to make art accessible.
Tags: Anna Deavere Smith, Art and Educational Justice, Cooper Union, Education and Art, Harold Clurman Festival of the Arts, Leonard Lopate, Phylicia Rashad, Rosie Perez, Sister Act, Sister Act the Musical, Stella Adler Studio, The 2008 Tony Awards, The View, Whoopi Goldberg, WNYC, Xanadu
