GOODBYE COLOR PURPLE! — Page 2

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.

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

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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.

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

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???

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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.

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