When I originally reviewed the musical version of The Color Purple based on Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and the Steven Spielberg's 1985 movie version, I felt the production was too Broadway slick and the score was too bland. The only thing that worked " and indeed the thing that saved that October 2007 touring production " was Walker's story and her powerful characters. (Read the review here.) That w…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 04:13PM on May 3, 2018