The Color Purple is official!

[apdarcey]

Posted: 7/6/05 at 12:22am

the color purple is official and i am so excited! here's a love thread...

https://www.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=3857

https://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_pg=680&u_sid=1452610

[aegeusrocks]

Posted: 7/6/05 at 12:29am

yes! finally they've confirmed it. i reeeeeaaally want to see this show when i go to new york in march....

[apdarcey]

Posted: 7/6/05 at 1:18am

bump for love! it's been an hour...

[aegeusrocks]

Posted: 7/6/05 at 2:15am

another hour, another bump! wheeee!

[Eastwickian]

Posted: 7/6/05 at 5:09am

When are tickets on sale? I'm coming to New York (for the first time!) in November, and would love to see this show in preview...

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 7/6/05 at 8:20am

I can't wait to see this!

[apdarcey]

Posted: 7/6/05 at 9:49am

i'm so excited for this show!!!!!!!!!

http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/6293 Updated On: 7/6/05 at 09:49 AM

[apdarcey]

Posted: 7/6/05 at 12:29pm

http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Story.aspx?ci=514807

[Derek]

Posted: 7/6/05 at 1:44pm

I have a feeling the music in this show will be beautiful!

[theatreboi11]

Posted: 7/6/05 at 2:52pm

Do you think Saycon and Adiane Lenox will have anything to do with it on Broadway since they have helped out with out of town try outs?

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 7/6/05 at 2:58pm

Lenox has said in interviews that she is no longer attached to the project and will not be doing the Broadway production.

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 7/6/05 at 3:09pm

Adriane Lenox article, in which she confirms she won't be doing "Purple" on Broadway

[magruder]

Posted: 7/6/05 at 3:42pm

May it only avoid the pitfalls of the movie.

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 7/6/05 at 3:46pm

Amen, Magruder

[Hairspraydoll]

Posted: 7/6/05 at 4:01pm

Any word on casting? My friend is doing the workshop and I wonder if alot of the workshop actors will stay for the Broadway run.

[Marquise]

Posted: 7/6/05 at 5:52pm

I've never read the Alice Walker novel.
I've yet to see the motion picture based on it.
The musical sounds interesting.
I might pick up the novel this week to read and after that rent the film to compare before this show hits Broadway.
Also, is Brenda Russell (credited as one of the composers/lyricists) the same Brenda Russell who sang "Piano in the Dark?"

[magruder]

Posted: 7/6/05 at 6:00pm

Or you might want to skip the film entirely.

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 7/6/05 at 6:03pm

Yep, it's the same Brenda Russell.

[Marquise]

Posted: 7/6/05 at 6:10pm

Why would I want to do that Macgruder?
Was it really that bad?
From what I know it was an Oscar nominated film and I'm assuming it got good reviews.
I do remember when the film came out. For some reason I just never got around to seeing it.

[WonderBoy]

Posted: 7/6/05 at 6:12pm

Oh my gosh! Marquise, get the to a Blockbuster! I loved the book and I really enjoyed the film as well. I think it is a classic. How can you not like the film? I love me some Miss Margaret Avery as Shug!

Updated On: 7/6/05 at 06:12 PM

[magruder]

Posted: 7/6/05 at 6:17pm

The film is the worst thing to happen to the black male since Jim Crow.

[WonderBoy]

Posted: 7/6/05 at 6:19pm

Why do you say that?

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 7/6/05 at 6:28pm

Some young people may have forgotten the picketing and boycotts that sprung up all over the country at the time of the film's opening, due to the film's depiction of black men as either evil, corrupt or buffoonish. There isn't one three-dimensional sympathetic black male character in it and several members of the black community condemned it at the time.

Updated On: 7/6/05 at 06:28 PM

[WonderBoy]

Posted: 7/6/05 at 6:39pm

Oh, I do recall the uproar that occured. I guess what I am looking for is why did you not care for the film? Is it for that reason?

[Pinguin]

Posted: 7/6/05 at 6:42pm

I'm assuming that was the fault of the film, and not of the book, yes?