GOODBYE COLOR PURPLE!- Page 2

[beyondblessed]

Posted: 2/25/08 at 12:07am

TCP you know what you meant to me. I miss you so much. Thanks for giving me the push of hope right when I needed it. Many blessings to all the cast and the creative crew. I loved this show.

[Malaijah]

Posted: 2/25/08 at 10:43am

Dance captain Jamal Story op-ed (read more at the link)

http://thedailyvoice.com/voice/2008/02/why-the-purple-death-000224.php

We had made history. We had stuffed the 1700 seats of the Broadway Theater our first year to recover the entire $11 million investment. We had done over 900 shows and received standing ovations for all of them.

LaChanze won a Tony for one of the eleven nominations we received. We were ushered into the building with good energy from other successful black shows like "Carmen Jones," which opened 62 years before us and ran for 500 shows and "Purlie," which earned two leads Tonys. Still, we broke box office records for most money made in two years in this theater. So to hear the announcement that our show would close impaled the spiritual spine of the building.

[DidYouReallyHearMe]

Posted: 2/25/08 at 11:05am

Saw both the 2pm and the 7:30pm performances last night. Unbelievable.

I will miss this show so much.

[WordedGrace]

Posted: 2/25/08 at 11:20am

Goodbye, TCP you were, "Too beautiful for words." First Broadway show my mother was excited to see and it met her expectations.

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 2/25/08 at 11:32am

It was nice to read his story. IMO, I think the show would have closed sooner had Fantasia not been cast. I remember the numbers being on the low side between the time LaChanze left and Fantasia started.

[luvcaroline]

Posted: 2/25/08 at 1:07pm

Malaijah, thanks for the link. It was a very nice and moving read. Clearly this was one show where many people involved had a strong emotional investment in it. This definitely came out in the performances that I saw. Also, this article again magnifies how sad it is when a show closes. Many people are effected and it's never a happy event, no matter what the show. This is why it always upsets me when people here say "_________ needs to close now!" That negative attitude is never OK, no matter how much you don't like a show.

[antiandrewx]

Posted: 2/25/08 at 2:34pm

Sad day that it closed, but I think it was time. It had an amazing run. The show for me never really was the same after LaChanze left (though I absolutely loved Kenita Miller as Celie).

Was Oprah there last night?

[theatre2]

Posted: 2/25/08 at 2:53pm

the next show that should colesd is poto that show has had a nice run but it should say goodbye this year.

[Gobstopper]

Posted: 2/25/08 at 3:51pm

I can't wait for this to come to Indiana next year!

[justme2]

Posted: 2/27/08 at 9:51pm

Am I missing something here? I haven't found any coverage at all (photowise) of the closing performance last Sunday of The Color Purple. Why not?

I checked all the major sites, as well as Getty and WireImage...did no press show up at all???

[Tasia B.]

Posted: 2/27/08 at 10:00pm

thanc uy brotwa wurl foor ur sportt!! i lufed mi xperns on tha colar porpil!! tasia wl b bak on the stags sun!

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 2/27/08 at 10:10pm

Tasia: What...?

justme2: If there is any coverage, which they usually do for Broadway closings, maybe it'll be a couple of more days before we see anything, and the most reliable sources for that would probably be BWW and maybe Playbill.

[justme2]

Posted: 2/27/08 at 10:21pm

Thanks Millie..I'll keep checking the sites I guess.

I, too, would like to say "what?!" to Tasia's message!