The Color Purple tickets treat fans to the musical adaptation of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about Southern black women finding their strength in a world that pushes them down, opened to great acclaim in 2005 at the Broadway Theatre in New York City. With a soul-stirring score, written by Grammy Award-winning composers/lyricists Brenda Russell, Allee Willis and Stephen Bray, the music combines influences from jazz, gospel, ragtime, blues and traditional African music.
Alice Walker's book, written in 1982, follows Celie, a young African-American woman in the early-mid 20th century, who learns through hardship and triumph what it takes to love, cherish and succeed within herself. With the add ional characters of Celie's abusive husband, her estranged sister living in Africa, and her husband's lover Shug Avery, Celie's young life of tragedy becomes a triumph for African-American women, and women in general, everywhere. The novel is also well known for its sometimes-explicit content and appears on the American Library Associations list of the 100 Most Controversial Books of 1990-2000.
Produced on Broadway by Oprah Winfrey, Quincey Jones, and a host of others, The Color Purple garnered five 2006 Outer Critics Circle Award nominations, including Outstanding Broadway Musical and Outstanding New Score. The show was also nominated for eleven Tony Awards including Best Musical, Best Original Score Written for the Theatre, and Best Leading Actress in a Musical. LaChanze, the lead role of Celie won the Tony Award for Best Leading Actress. LaChanze, a seasoned veteran of Broadway and theater has been recognized for her performances in Funny Girl, Ragtime and Dreamgirls. She is also well known for her strength amongst tragedy; her first husband, who worked as a trader in the World Trade Center, died on Sept. 11, 2001.
The book was adapted in a film of the same name in 1985. Directed by Steven Speilberg with an all-star cast of Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover, the film was considered the best of the year.
The Color Purple shattered the Broadway Theatre's house record, grossing over $1 million one week in June 2006, besting La Boheme's previous record of nearly $1 million. It then went on to continue to break box-office records. The musical has been one of the Top 5 grossing shows on Broadway since it's opening.
Since its first performance on November 1, 2005, The Color Purple has the highest cumulative gross and attendance figures of any new Broadway show of the 2005-2006 season. It celebrated its 250th performance in July 2006 and has grossed over $37 million in ticket sales since it opened in December of 2005.
The Color Purple tickets sell out consistently and has a continuous run at the Broadway Theatre in New York City. Don't miss LaChanze and the beauty of The Color Purple.
