Tyler Perry's For Colored Girls

Casting has been announced for the upcoming film version of Ntozake Shang's 1975 play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Isn't Enuf, which whill be directed by Tyler Perry.  The film will star Mariah Carey, Kimberly Elise, Whoopi Goldberg, Janet Jackson, Phylicia Rashad, Jurnee Smollett, Kerry Washington, Loretta Devine, and Macy Gray, and is anticipating a January 14, 2011 release date.  Perry has stated that his drag persona, Medea, will NOT appear in the film.