Miller is Color Purple's New Celie
Miller is Color Purple's New Celie
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#1Miller is Color Purple's New Celie
Posted: 2/16/07 at 8:17am
http://www.broadway.com/Gen/Buzz_Story.aspx?ci=544021
Kenita Miller will take over the role of Celie in Color Purple stsarting February 20. Jeanette Bayardelle will head the touring company of the show.
Updated On: 2/16/07 at 08:17 AM
NiteOwl
Featured Actor Joined: 1/5/07
#2re: Miller is Color Purple's New Celie
Posted: 2/16/07 at 8:37am
oh wow!
lmao, half the board was having a cow last night because they all thought fantasia barrino got the role!
"I'm only 17 and am running on 6 cups of coffee so, forgive me if things that I post seem spastic." ~ Elphaba 43
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#2re: Miller is Color Purple's New Celie
Posted: 2/16/07 at 8:40amFantasia isn't starting until May, I believe.
jess20882
Broadway Star Joined: 9/21/06
#3re: Miller is Color Purple's New Celie
Posted: 2/16/07 at 12:33pm
i'm very excited that kenita is coming back. i saw her go on for lachanze once, and she was incredible 
jg4892
Broadway Star Joined: 11/2/06
#4re: Miller is Color Purple's New Celie
Posted: 2/16/07 at 12:35pmI was really hoping to see Jeanette as Celie, but I'm sure Kenita is amazing too.
#5re: Miller is Color Purple's New Celie
Posted: 2/16/07 at 12:36pmHas it been completely confirmed that Fantasia is joining the show, its been all over E! this morning.
"Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we’re all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.” --- Patti LuPone.
#6re: Miller is Color Purple's New Celie
Posted: 2/16/07 at 12:37pmI thought Kenita was going to open the Chicago production.
"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
Luckydave14
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/25/04
#7re: Miller is Color Purple's New Celie
Posted: 2/16/07 at 12:42pmI supposed that LaChanze would have come back to the show and that she would be the fill-in before Fantasia started as she mentioned in an interview she would make a brief return.
#8re: Miller is Color Purple's New Celie
Posted: 2/16/07 at 1:05pm
Wow i'm so glad I got to see Jeanette before this change took place. I had never even heard of her before I saw the show but I left believing she gave absolutely one of the most powerful performances I have ever seen. Broadway is letting go of an amazing performer!
#9re: Miller is Color Purple's New Celie
Posted: 2/16/07 at 1:38pmKenita is awesome. I did Ragtime with her on tour and she rocked the house every night.
Other than that, did you enjoy the play Mrs Lincoln?
#10re: Miller is Color Purple's New Celie
Posted: 2/16/07 at 1:49pmLuckydave- LaChanze was set to return, but due to a change of dates for the gap between Janette and Fantasia, she was forced to pull out due to a scheduling conflict (at least that's what I was told.)
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
#11re: Miller is Color Purple's New Celie
Posted: 2/16/07 at 1:55pmCongrats to her! I had a chance to speak with her back in June and she was a doll. A very focused and bright young lady.
dramaqueen2
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/23/05
#12re: Miller is Color Purple's New Celie
Posted: 2/16/07 at 2:21pm
alright, this is the third person taking the part of celie that i have heard within the past 12 hours.
first it was fantastia, then vanessa, and now kenita.
glad there is proof with this one. where were the other people getting their sources from i wonder?
with that said. WAHOO for miller! =)
hear my song; it was made for the time when you don't know where to go, listen to the song that i sing, you'll be fine..
jg4892
Broadway Star Joined: 11/2/06
#13re: Miller is Color Purple's New Celie
Posted: 2/16/07 at 2:23pmKenita and Fantasia are BOTH going to be Broadway's new Celie, at different times.
TheaterBoy7777
Broadway Star Joined: 1/28/06
#14re: Miller is Color Purple's New Celie
Posted: 2/16/07 at 2:44pmIm so excited! I can't wait to see her!! Go AMDA graduates!!
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