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Photo Coverage: Opening Night Party for The Color Purple

By: Dec. 03, 2005
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The Color Purple, began previews at the Broadway Theatre (1681 Broadway at 53rd St.) on November 1st and opened on Thursday, December 1, 2005. BroadwayWorld was there to capture all the night's excitement!

Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker that inspired the 1985 Steven Speilberg film, The Color Purple features a score by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis and Stephen Bray, and a book by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Marsha Norman; Gary Griffin directs. The Color Purple stars LaChanze, Renee Elise Goldsberry, Felicia P. Fields, Kingsley Leggs, Elisabeth Withers-Mendes, Brandon Victor Dixon and Krisha Marcano, among others.

Tickets for The Color Purple can be purchased by calling (212) 239-6200 or visiting the Broadway Theatre's box office. For more information, visit www.colorpurple.com.


LaChanze


LaChanze


Angela Bassett and Courtney B. Vance


Mario Cantone


Brandon Victor Dixon


Mario Cantone


Renee Elise Goldsberry and Chantylla Johnson


Felicia P. Fields


Renee Elise Goldsberry and Chantylla Johnson


Renne Elise Goldsberry


Gary Griffin


Quincy Jones & Kimberly Conrad Hefner


Chantylla Johnson


Norm Lewis


Michael Milken


Norm Lewis


Marsha Norman


Krisha Marcano


S. Epatha Merkerson and Paul Reubens


Paul Reubens


Angela Bassett


Star Jones Reynolds


Phylicia Rashad


Star Jones Reynolds


Star Jones and Al Reynolds


Scott Sanders


Ken Sunshine


Diane Sawyer


Chuck Schummer


Al Sharpton


Alice Walker


Elisabeth Withers-Mendes


Zipporah G. Gatling, Chantylla Johnson & Corinne McFarlane


Phoebe Snow


George C. Wolfe

 




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