The Color Purple, 2015

The run closed January 8, 2017

Opened

2015

Closed

January 8, 2017

Performances

493

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre

Of the 425 productions we hold that opened in the 2010s and carry a performance count, this is the 49th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of The Color Purple 2 more that season

2005	Broadway Theatre Original · Gary Griffin	910 perf.
2013	Transfer Transfer

Who was in it17 named

Dwayne Clark
Lawrence Clayton
Carrie Compere
Bre Jackson
Antoine L Smith

12 of these 17 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 5 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name, so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Characters6 roles held

Adrianna Hicks Celie
Jennifer Hudson Shug Avery
Danielle Brooks Sofia
Gavin Gregory Mister/Albert
J. Daughtry Harpo
N'Jameh Camara Nettie

These came out of a wiki table. The names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.

Creative team

Director

John Doyle, John

Choreographer

John Doyle

A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.

Recordings 3 held for the work

None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against The Color Purple, and nothing says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.

Around this production

This revival won the Tony for Best Musical Revival. Cynthia Erivo's performance became legendary and launched her film career.

Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.

What this page does not know

• Which of the 3 recordings of The Color Purple document this run, if any.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.