She wasn't with the show for very long before it closed. At the time, a lot of people called her a diva for having an alternate, considering that Sofia isn't nearly as large a role as Celie. I saw her. She wasn't bad, but she wasn't Sofia. She was Chaka Khan. Luckily, most of the people who came to see her seemed to only care about seeing Chaka, not an actor playing a role.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
