WHOOPI GOLDBERG - GOLDBERG RETURNS TO BROADWAY STAGE IN XANADU

Comedienne WHOOPI GOLDBERG is set to return to the Broadway stage with a brief stint in musical comedy XANADU.
The 2008 Tony Awards host will take to the stage later this month (29Jul08) on a six week run ending on 7 September (08).
The 52-year-old will star in the musical as one of the show's Greek muses, Calliope, she announced on Monday (14Jul08).
Goldberg says of her new role, "What better way to stick my toe back on to the Broadway stage than to join the amazing cast of Xanadu. It's such a fun show and is definitely my sensibility... for me, it's going to be unbelievable."
The Academy Award winner has previously appeared on Broadway in Whoopi, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.
Goldberg is also currently producing a revival of Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf, which debuts this month (Jul08).