See it on Broadway through January 8th only. The Color Purple is the 2016 Tony Award winner for Best Musical Revival. Best Actress Tony Award winner CYNTHIA ERIVO ("an incandescent new star" says The New York Times) leads a powerhouse cast in this epic story of a young woman’s journey to love and joy in the American South. Joining her is Tony and Grammy-winning Broadway legend JENNIFER HOLLIDAY (Dreamgirls). Tony winner JOHN DOYLE directs.
Don't miss two of Broadway's most powerful performers together on one stage in this Tony-winning triumph that New York Magazine calls "one of the greatest revivals ever."
Experience the exhilarating power of this Tony-winning triumph that New York Magazine calls "one of the greatest revivals ever."
For the first time in its long history of dramatization, 'The Color Purple' has been afforded an incarnation fully in sync with one crucial aspect of Walker's original authorial intent -- that the audience must participate in the imaginative act in order to comprehend its richness of theme and story...Hudson's portrayal of Shug Avery is notable in the way it forces an audience to measure the extent and limits of its attraction to this glamorous siren with her life-affirming but hedonist ways. For those of us who watched Hudson in concert early in her career, this performance, which is vocally exquisite, shows the remarkable growth as an actress...But Hudson is not the performer who brings down the house...That work belongs to Cynthia Erivo, the British actress playing -- actually, inhabiting is the better word -- the role of Celie and who, better than the several other actresses I have seen play this role, captures not just the fullness of her pain but the stature of her resilience.
In the British director John Doyle's emotionally rich and visually striking new production of The Color Purple...there is an elegant staging and three gorgeous star performances...Jennifer Hudson makes her Broadway debut here, and it only reconfirms that she's a star...Danielle Brooks...is Sofia, the rare woman in this world willing to stand up to her husband...she turns out to be a gifted stage actress. She's funny, sensitive, and compulsively charismatic...Erivo...plays Celie, who is diminished and defeated through much of the story but finally finds her strength. Erivo's portrayal of that transformation is remarkable. A quiet, subdued performance slowly gathers conviction, and when finally Celie asserts herself with her climatic anthem of self-possession, 'I'm Here,' its power is astonishing.
2004 | New York |
Reading New York |
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2005 | New York |
Workshop New York |
2005 | Broadway |
Original Broadway Production Broadway |
2007 | US Tour |
National Tour US Tour |
2015 | Broadway |
Broadway Revival Production Broadway |
2017 | US Tour |
Revival National Tour US Tour |
Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
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2016 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Cynthia Erivo |
2016 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director of a Musical | John Doyle |
2016 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Danielle Brooks |
2016 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lighting Design for a Musical | Jane Cox |
2016 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Orchestrations | Catherine Jayes |
2016 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Orchestrations | Joseph Joubert |
2016 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Musical | The Color Purple |
2016 | Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance Award | Cynthia Erivo |
2016 | Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance Award | Jennifer Hudson |
2016 | Drama League Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Musical | The Color Purple |
2016 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Cynthia Erivo |
2016 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Danielle Brooks |
2016 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Musical (Broadway or off-Broadway) | The Color Purple |
2016 | Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Musical | John Doyle |
2016 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical | Danielle Brooks |
2016 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical | Cynthia Erivo |
2016 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Musical | The Color Purple |
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