Lili-Anne Brown's staging of the musical based on Alice Walker's classic novel brings down the house. There is no doubt the 2005 musical adaptation of Alice Walker's 1982 Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning novel (which also draws on Steven Spielberg's blockbuster 1985 movie) has a wonderful score, packed wall-to-wall with powerful, soul-stirring music and clever lyrics by Bre…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AM on September 25, 2019