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The Color Purple is a musical with music and lyrics by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis, and Stephen Bray, based on the 1982 novel The Color Purple by Alice Walker and its 1985 film adaptation. The musical follows the journey of Celie, an African American woman in the American South from the early to mid-20th century.
Then: Whoopi Goldberg. Celie is the heart of The Color Purple, and Goldberg’s portrayal of her in the 1985 film was devastating and revelatory. In 1985, the actress and comedian told the late ...
The Color Purple premiered in London on November 20, 2023, and was released in the United States on December 25, 2023, by Warner Bros. Pictures. Although it received positive reviews from critics, it performed poorly at the box office grossing $68.8 million against a budget of $90–100 million.
Her other Broadway credits include Mimi Marquez in Rent (1996), Nettie Harris in the original cast of The Color Purple (2005), and Kate in the David Lindsay-Abaire play Good People (2011). On television, she portrayed Evangeline Williamson on One Life to Live , for which she received two nominations for the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding ...
The film adaptation of the Broadway musical, The Color Purple, is taking shape as it adds another big name to The post Taraji P. Henson cast as Shug Avery in ‘The Color Purple’ movie musical ...
"The Color Purple" takes over Broadway before it's revived in 2015. Fantasia and the Cast of . In 2005, "The Color Purple" opened on Broadway with LaChanze playing the role of Celie.
Brandon Victor Dixon (born September 23, 1981) [1] is an American actor, singer and theatrical producer.As a musical theatre actor, he is known for Tony Award-nominated Broadway performances as Harpo in the 2005 musical The Color Purple, Eubie Blake in Shuffle Along, or, the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed (2016), and Davis in Hell's Kitchen (2023).
Fantasia Barrino will be playing Celie in the upcoming "The Color Purple" film. Meet everyone in the cast and see how they compare to the actors of the original movie.