The Color Green By TERRY TEACHOUT

Today's musicals usually feature actors who can sing instead of singers who can act. LaChanze, like Kristin Chenoweth, does both with awe-inspiring conviction. I'd believe anything that came out of her mouth -- anything, that is, except "The Color Purple," which is best described as two hours and 45 minutes of high-priced phoniness.

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