The recently-announced Oscars nominations suggest it’s going to be a slim-pickings year for musicals lovers. The Color Purple, with its $100 million budget, doesn’t even make the Best Picture list and Danielle Brooks, the film’s only other contender in the main categories who reprises her Broadway role of Sofia, is a big outsider for Supporting Actress honours.
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The Color Purple – Bernard B Jacobs Theatre, New York
The Color Purple continues at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, New York. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Director John Doyle’s wondrous redo of The Color Purple may be minimalist, but it’s drenched in emotion. At the same time, he has gloriously amped up this Broadway musical’s power as a feminist […]
