Twenty years prior to the production of this video, comedian Whoopi Goldberg took Broadway by storm in a one-woman show that confirmed her as one of the best and most witty performers of her generation. The groundbreaking comic returns to the Great White Way in this HBO special that has her revisiting some of her previous characters, like the belly-aching drug addict Fontaine, as well as new avatars like Lurleen, a southern belle facing menopause. .