Jennifer Hudson talks her Broadway debut in The Color Purple
The air-conditioning is broken, but Jennifer Hudson isn't complaining. It's an oppressively humid afternoon in a tiny basement studio in Dumbo, and everyone is trying to move slowly enough to not sweat through their shirts. Or collapse on the small table laid out with tiny cheeses. Everyone who doesn't have an Academy Award, that is. "I like the heat," Hudson says, before kindly turning a small table fan in my direct…