said the new Color Purple movie musical "sanitized" the romance between Celie and Shug Avery, played by Fantasia Barrino and ...

What to know about 'The Color Purple' movie musical Directed by Blitz Bazawule, "The Color Purple" tells the story of Celie (Barrino), a Black woman living in rural Georgia in the early 1900s who ...

From Warner Bros. Pictures comes the feature film THE COLOR PURPLE, which has received critical acclaim and numerous accolades, including an Academy Award nomination, two SAG Award nominations ...

This go-round, "The Color Purple" is experiencing one fresh kind of controversy and one familiar backlash, albeit amplified. One of the gripes is about the latest film being a musical. The ...

and Cynthia Erivo roundtable The Color Purple: Jennifer Hudson, Cynthia Erivo star in exclusive music video By clicking “Accept All Cookies”, you agree to the storing of cookies on your device ...

(JTA) – The bright, colorful movie musical “The Color Purple,” which opens in theaters on Christmas, tells a story that has by now become a familiar part of the American canon — of a young ...

The performance joins other musical numbers in the new movie ... that she turned down the offer to play Shug Avery in The Color Purple on Broadway, revealing that she was "scared" to play the ...

The Color Purple originated from a conversation ... If you haven’t read the book, if you haven’t seen the movie, or you haven’t seen the musical before, then you need to experience this ...

She takes on her first major movie role in "The Color Purple," a film version of the Broadway musical, which adapted the same book that was previously turned into the 1985 Steven Spielberg film.

THE BASICS: THE COLOR PURPLE, music and lyrics by Brenda Russell ... the plot follows the 1985 Spielberg movie based on the same 1982 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, with “Celie” forced ...