The Color Purple - Now on National Tour

Purple Partners with Charity Group to Rebuild Katrina Damaged Homes

ABC News

Cast and crew are slated to meet with the 20 families after Tuesday's performance, and on Wednesday, they will help move Violet resident Lynette Harvey and her family into their rebuilt home.

"There's not enough words to describe how grateful I am," said Harvey, 44, whose home was flooded to the roofline. "I'm just so happy. I feel so blessed because there were times I thought I'd never get back home."

The Color Purple is working with the St. Bernard Project to help Harvey and the other families. The nonprofit agency works with families in Orleans and St. Bernard parishes to rebuild their Katrina-damaged homes. The show has raised over $320,000 to rebuild 21 homes.

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A Role She Knows Almost Too Well
You could write a Broadway musical about how Fantasia became the star of a Broadway musical. Invited by a producer of "The Color Purple" to see the show, she had no inkling that the evening would end at a dinner, at which he would offer her the leading role.
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Purple POPS in Stage Version!

Charlotte Observer

The 1982 classic novel became a movie – and now it is a Broadway musical with some cool ties to Charlotte.
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Rich Performance at Color Purple

Toronto Star

Open your heart to the big, bountiful musical called The Color Purple that opened at the Canon Theatre last night and you will be well rewarded.
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Color Purple Changes Hues

Denver Post

Despite its signature title, "The Color Purple" has engendered every color of emotional response as it morphed from page to screen to stage.
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Color Purple reigns with pluck

Rocky Mountain News

When Scott Sanders set his mind to staging The Color Purple, he had never produced a Broadway musical. His experience was limited to one-person events, such as Dame Edna. In nothing like an overnight success story, he was flying to Chicago less than a decade later, meeting with Oprah Winfrey and putting her name above the title.
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Color Purple Touches the Audience and the Cast

CBS

Get a closer look at the emotional journey the audience and the cast takes with every performance.
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How Purple found its stage voice

Sacramento Bee

Scott Sanders always heard music in "The Color Purple." In both its forms, as the 1982 novel by Alice Walker and the resulting movie by Steven Spielberg, Sanders felt a musical was trying to emerge.
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Purple on Great Day St. Louis

Great Day St. Louis

Watch as Tim Tialdo introduces you to Trent Armand Kendall and get a special look at Latoya London at The Fabulous Fox Theatre.
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Sisterhood is at the heart of 'The Color Purple'

STLtoday.com

Get an in-depth look at how The Color Purple speaks to the relationships between women.
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