The Color Purple (2015)

Music by Brenda Russell
Directed by John Doyle
Cast: Cynthia Erivo, Jennifer Hudson, Danielle Brooks, Isaiah Johnson, Joaquina Kalukango, Kyle Scatliffe, Dwayne Clark, Lawrence Clayton

On a Sunday morning in 1909, fourteen-year-old Celie – who has had one child by her father Alphonso and is now pregnant with her second – plays a clapping game with her younger sister Nettie ("Huckleberry Pie"). While attending services with the other members of their rural Georgia community, Celie goes into labor and is dragged out of the church as the congregation quietly looks on ("Mysterious Ways").

Theater

Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre · Broadway

Closed

January 8, 2017