Jennifer Holliday, who won a Tony Award for creating the role of Effie White in the original 1982 production of "Dreamgirls," is going into the current Broadway revival of "The Color Purple," beginning on October 4. There is a certain synchronicity in this. After all, Holliday will be playing Shug Avery " the glamorous, highly-sexed club singer in Alice Walker's classic tale " who was created in this John Doyle-…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 07:41AM on August 26, 2016