The Color Purple
The Color Purple Featured Events
- Atlanta, GA - Fabulous Fox Theatre
- Boston, MA - Shubert Theatre
- Costa Mesa, CA - Segerstrom Center For The Arts - Segerstrom Hall
- Dallas, TX - Music Hall At Fair Park
- Des Moines, IA - Des Moines Civic Center
- Durham, NC - Durham Performing Arts Center
- Lincoln, NE - Lied Center For Performing Arts
- Los Angeles, CA - Pantages Theatre
- Memphis, TN - Orpheum Theatre
- Miami, FL - Ziff Opera House At The Adrienne Arsht Center
- Oklahoma City, OK - Thelma Gaylord PAT At Civic Center Music Hall
- Philadelphia, PA - Forrest Theatre
- Pittsburgh, PA - Benedum Center
- Saint Louis, MO - Fabulous Fox Theatre
- San Antonio, TX - Majestic Theatre
- San Francisco, CA - Orpheum Theatre
- Schenectady, NY - Proctors Theatre
- Tempe, AZ - Gammage Auditorium
- Washington, DC - Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater
Useful Info
The Color Purple is a Broadway musical based upon the novel The Color Purple by Alice Walker. The musical opened on Broadway at the Broadway Theatre on December 1, 2005. The Color Purple is directed by Gary Griffin, produced by Scott Sanders (Producer), Quincy Jones and Oprah Winfrey, with choreography by Donald Byrd. It features music and lyrics written by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis and Stephen Bray, with a book by Marsha Norman.
A national tour of "The Color Purple" began April 17, 2007, starting with an extended run at the Cadillac Palace Theatre in Chicago, Illinois. The company includes LaToya London as Nettie, Michelle Williams as Shug Avery, Felicia P. Fields as Sofia, and Jeannette Bayardelle as Celie. Bayardelle and Fields both are reprising their roles from Broadway. The show exceeded revised expectations, which necessitated a four week extension of its Chicago engagement until September 30, 2007. However, the original expectation was that the show would run in Chicago until November. The second stop on the national tour was a San Francisco, California engagement.
A national tour of "The Color Purple" began April 17, 2007, starting with an extended run at the Cadillac Palace Theatre in Chicago, Illinois. The company includes LaToya London as Nettie, Michelle Williams as Shug Avery, Felicia P. Fields as Sofia, and Jeannette Bayardelle as Celie. Bayardelle and Fields both are reprising their roles from Broadway. The show exceeded revised expectations, which necessitated a four week extension of its Chicago engagement until September 30, 2007. However, the original expectation was that the show would run in Chicago until November. The second stop on the national tour was a San Francisco, California engagement.