THE BASICS: THE COLOR PURPLE ... This musical adaptation has a score featuring jazz, ragtime, gospel, African music, and blues performed by an all-black cast and pit, as it should be, and ...

With a book by Marsha Norman, and music and lyrics by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis and Stephen Bray, The Color Purple is a portrait of Black women in rural Georgia during the first half of the ...

For the first time since the book was released in 1982 and its film adaptation in 1985, “The Color Purple” premiered as a musical production ... last two weekends of Black History Month.

Tony-nominee Colman Domingo and Grown-ish star Halle Bailey have joined the all-star cast of the upcoming musical film adaptation of The Color Purple ... Celie's beloved sister, Nettie.

The Color Purple musical is being adapted for the big screen ... Singer Ciara has been cast as Celie’s sister Nettie, with The Little Mermaid’s Halle Bailey also playing a younger version ...