The Color Purple closing Jan 8

[curel1]

Posted: 10/30/16 at 6:03pm

http://www.theatermania.com/broadway/news/the-color-purple-ends-broadway-run_75441.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=30oct2016

[IdinaBellFoster]

Posted: 10/30/16 at 6:05pm

An absolutely beautiful production. I'm glad they're closing with the end of Cynthia Erivo's contract and aren't trying to replace her. 

 

I believe Cynthia & John Doyle's entire production have pushed THE COLOR PURPLE into the realm of modern classics. 

[GreasedLightning]

Posted: 10/30/16 at 6:06pm

Congrats to a wonderful production. Still sad to hear the news even though we knew it was coming. 

[Green_Flash]

Posted: 10/30/16 at 6:13pm

Loved it!!

[Valentina3]

Posted: 10/30/16 at 6:14pm

The playbill article says January 18th. Wondering if that's a typo

[BroadwayConcierge]

Posted: 10/30/16 at 6:14pm

^ Definitely a typo. Every other source says the 8th.

[ACL2006]

Posted: 10/30/16 at 6:19pm

Time to buy myself a ticket for the closing show.

[Cfried]

Posted: 10/30/16 at 6:27pm

Will miss this show dearly. Guess we should be hearing about BANDSTAND at the Jacobs soon.

[Valentina3]

Posted: 10/30/16 at 6:30pm

Wonder what's next for the folks in the show. Isaiah Johnson and Danielle are leaving next month, and it's sad that Holliday will gone so soon after coming back to Broadway. And Cynthia. Oh Cynthia.

[BroadwayConcierge]

Posted: 10/30/16 at 6:33pm

Went back and forth but just got a ticket for closing. This show and Cynthia's performance have just moved me so profoundly. Have to say goodbye to it! 

[NYadgal]

Posted: 10/30/16 at 6:59pm

I did, too.  I wasn't interested in seeing Jennifer Holliday -- but Cynthia's performance is one of the greatest I've ever seen in a theater, so I want to say good-bye.  And Thank You.  

[Huss417]

Posted: 10/30/16 at 7:15pm

Been an expensive month for buying tickets. And looks like no codes. Full Price Here We Go! Should be an amazing final performance. Merry Christmas to Me. :)

Updated On: 10/30/16 at 07:15 PM

[10086sunset]

Posted: 10/30/16 at 7:19pm

News finally got me to buy tickets...Excited to see this before it goes...

It's been an impressive run...

[Someone in a Tree2]

Posted: 10/30/16 at 7:31pm

This is the high bar by which all future stripped down revivals will be measured. We were 3 rows from the back of the mezzanine and can't remember the last time we had such an intimately moving experience on Broadway. We saw C Erivo, J Hudson and Danielle Brooks and count ourselves so lucky to have seen them in their prime. A performance for the ages.

[MyFavoriteBrunette]

Posted: 10/30/16 at 9:31pm

With all the chatter of Jan 8 closing, I was tempted to buy a ticket for that date, but when Danielle Brooks announced her departure, I decided to revisit this Thursday and catch Holliday as well.  Although the performance had a different dynamic for me without Headley (I saw her in TCP 4 times) Holliday still made me feel for her in a different way.  or more wise and experienced life of someone still wanting to love.  The story still moved me as ever and Cynthia's solo grabbing me as always.  Because I've seen the show several times, I was able to look at the audience from my orch right aisle seat and I saw several women sniffling, one all choked up, another with tears all down her face and a gentleman crying in his center orch seat.  Cynthia singing 'I'm Here' is the single most moving moment I've ever experienced on Broadway.  I thought I was being too emotional, but saw others just as moved and this is one of those productions which reaches out to you and grabs you.  With its simple set of hanging chairs, they are used to convey emotion of anger when chairs are used as a weapon or stomped on the ground.  The chairs are used to be sexy, too! 

I love this production.  I'm sad to see it go but I am grateful to the Broadway Gods for compelling me to dedicate myself to Broadway this year.  Any other time, I would have missed it.

Updated On: 10/30/16 at 09:31 PM

[Robyn2]

Posted: 10/30/16 at 9:40pm

Flying up to NYC (from Atlanta) in two weeks just to see TCP again with Cynthia.  Turns out I got tickets for  Danielle Brooks and Isaiah Johnson's last performance.  My husband thinks I am crazy to go up just for this show, but it is that amazing.  I love it so much.

[Alex Kulak2]

Posted: 10/30/16 at 9:50pm

What was this revival like? I get the gist, it's a pared down John Doyle show, but what were the particulars? What were the main differences between the original production and this production?

[supersam1026]

Posted: 10/30/16 at 9:57pm

Cynthia just tweeted that January 8 is also her birthday, as if this performance wasn't going to be explosive enough!!

Literally had no choice but to buy one of the $80 (cheapest) tickets. Still a handful of those left in case anyone is wondering, but I'm sure they will be gone sooner than later!

[Someone in a Tree2]

Posted: 10/30/16 at 10:41pm

"What were the main differences between the original production and this production?"

The original had a fully designed physical production with multiple set changes, act curtains (scrims of Celie's letters), a very fully staged "Africa" number and dance sequence to start Act II, and more complete representations of  Mister's house, the corn fields, Harpo's juke joint, Celie's Pants store, etc. The ensemble had easily 20 or 30 members, all with many multiples of costume changes.

The revival has a single abstract unit set; shifts in the lighting and rearrangements of the chairs are the only visual change from scene to scene. The ensemble is reduced to a company of 10 or 11, each with a basic costume and few changes, save the principals. The orchestra is similarly reduced to a chamber group of 8 musicians.

But oh, what magic those precious few performers and musicians can make together. 

[Alex Kulak2]

Posted: 10/30/16 at 11:04pm

I dig stagings like that. Sounds like the 12 chairs version of Big Fish in comparison to the original

[Alex Kulak2]

Posted: 10/30/16 at 11:04pm

I dig stagings like that. Sounds like the 12 chairs version of Big Fish in comparison to the original

[@z5]

Posted: 10/30/16 at 11:19pm

Such an incredible show. Words can't describe it. 

 

Hoping to to be there on the last day. 

[MyFavoriteBrunette]

Posted: 10/31/16 at 12:48am

Alex Kulak2 said: "I dig stagings like that. Sounds like the 12 chairs version of Big Fish in comparison to the original

The chairs are everything to me.  They get slammed down when Celie is angry, they get danced on sexy style at the juke joint, Mistah declares there's holes in his Sunday socks while sitting on one, but doesn't even have a one to sit on once Celie curses him!  So little set and so much amazing storytelling.  It's a show I urged everybody and their mother to go see, especially since it was always accessible.  

 

[BroadwayConcierge]

Posted: 10/31/16 at 10:08am

Orchestra's already near-empty for the closing show!

[Dysquith13]

Posted: 10/31/16 at 10:31am

Any word on if this is touring or not?