Miller is Color Purple's New Celie

[Yankeefan007]

Miller is Color Purple's New Celie#1

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]

re: Miller is Color Purple's New Celie#2

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]

re: Miller is Color Purple's New Celie#2

Posted: 2/16/07 at 8:40am

Fantasia isn't starting until May, I believe.

[jess20882]

re: Miller is Color Purple's New Celie#3

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]

re: Miller is Color Purple's New Celie#4

Posted: 2/16/07 at 12:35pm

I was really hoping to see Jeanette as Celie, but I'm sure Kenita is amazing too.

[ClumsyDude15]

re: Miller is Color Purple's New Celie#5

Posted: 2/16/07 at 12:36pm

Has 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.

[AC126748]

re: Miller is Color Purple's New Celie#6

Posted: 2/16/07 at 12:37pm

I 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]

re: Miller is Color Purple's New Celie#7

Posted: 2/16/07 at 12:42pm

I 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.

[.LittleWing. 0224]

re: Miller is Color Purple's New Celie#8

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!

Updated On: 2/16/07 at 01:05 PM

[Neverandy]

re: Miller is Color Purple's New Celie#9

Posted: 2/16/07 at 1:38pm

Kenita 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?

[somethingwicked]

re: Miller is Color Purple's New Celie#10

Posted: 2/16/07 at 1:49pm

Luckydave- 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.

[Popular]

re: Miller is Color Purple's New Celie#11

Posted: 2/16/07 at 1:55pm

Congrats 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]

re: Miller is Color Purple's New Celie#12

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]

re: Miller is Color Purple's New Celie#13

Posted: 2/16/07 at 2:23pm

Kenita and Fantasia are BOTH going to be Broadway's new Celie, at different times.

[TheaterBoy7777]

re: Miller is Color Purple's New Celie#14

Posted: 2/16/07 at 2:44pm

Im so excited! I can't wait to see her!! Go AMDA graduates!!