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Price: $28 - $100
Age Suitability:
All Ages
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broadway, african american, african american history, boston globe, g, mark your calendar, louise kennedy, june wulff
For more than two years, Broadway audiences were treated to the musical retelling of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "The Color Purple." This tragic, touching, and ultimately triumphant story about a girl in rural Georgia is in Boston with three of the actresses from the Tony-nominated Broadway production.- June Wulff, Globe Staff
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Like the Alice Walker novel on which it is based, the musical version of “The Color Purple’’ is at once epic and personal - packed to bursting with incident and character, spanning 40 years, yet seen through the eyes of one downtrodden woman who only finds her own power late in the day. Also like the novel, it can seem exhaustingly meandering, but it also has an essential goodness at its core. (Full review)
Next week, the first North American tour of "The Color Purple" rolls into the Citi Wang Theatre. The musical, which ran for more than two years on Broadway, was nominated for 11 Tony Awards. And it all started with a counterintuitive brainstorm that Broadway and Hollywood producer Scott Sanders had back in 1997. (Full review)