Overview

The Color Purple
A joyous testament to the healing power of love, based on the novel by Alice Walker
By Marsha Norman, with music and lyrics by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis, and Stephen Bray
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This glorious musical adaptation of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel spotlights Celie, a young woman whose personal awakening over the course of 40 years forms the arc of an epic story. With a joyous Tony Award-winning score featuring jazz, ragtime, gospel, African music and blues, The Color Purple is a story of hope, an intensely moving American classic, and a triumphant theatrical treasure.