Photo Coverage: The Color Purple Listening Party
By: Ben Strothmann Jan. 12, 2006
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The Color Purple star LaChanze and other performers from the hit musical turned out to Angus McIndoe on January 10th for a listening party. Attendees heard tracks from the mastered CD of the show, which will be officially released on January 24th.
The Color Purple, which opened at the Broadway Theatre on December 1st, 2005, is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker that also inspired
the 1985 Steven Speilberg film. The Color Purple features a score by
Brenda Russell, Allee Willis and Stephen Bray, and a book by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Marsha Norman; Gary Griffin directs. The Color Purple stars LaChanze, Renee Elise Goldsberry (who will soon leave the show due to her pregnancy), Felicia P. Fields, Kingsley Leggs, Elisabeth Withers-Mendes, Brandon Victor Dixon and Krisha Marcano, among others. Oprah Winfrey, who co-starred in the film, is among the producers of the show.
Tickets for The Color Purple can be purchased by calling (212) 239-6200 or visiting the Broadway Theatre's box office. For more information, visit www.colorpurple.com.
The Color Purple listening party
(Clockwise) James Harkness, JC Montgomery, Brandon Victor Dixon, Kimberly Ann Harris, James Brown III and Virginia Ann Woodruff
Top row: Nathanial Stampley, LaTrisa A. Coleman, Charles Gray; middle row: Darlesia Cearcy and Bahiyah Sayyed Gaines; bottom row: Grasan Kingsberry
Renee Elise Goldsberry and Kingsley Leggs
LaChanze
Bruce Lundvall (Head of EMI Records), Kingsley Leggs, LaChanze, and Tom Evered (General Manager EMI Records)
Jamel Gaines and Bahiyah Sayyed Gaines
Music director Linda Twine and orchestrator Jonathan Tunick
Marsha Norman, Grasan Kingsberry, James Brown III, Renee Elise Goldsberry, producer Stephanie P. McClelland, Brandon Victor Dixon, and Kimberly Ann Harris
Marsha Norman, Grasan Kingsberry, James Brown III, Renee Elise Goldsberry, Stephanie P. McClelland, Brandon Victor Dixon, and Kimberly Ann Harris
Renee Elise Goldsberry and LaChanze
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