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Wed, Feb 14
|Arts High School
THE COLOR PURPLE - Soft Opening
This musical adaptation of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel (and the popular 1985 Steven Spielberg film) spotlights Celie, a downtrodden young woman whose personal awakening over the course of 40 years forms the arc of this epic story.
Time & Location
Feb 14, 2024, 7:00 PM – 9:30 PM EST
Arts High School, 550 Dr Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Newark, NJ 07102, USA
Guests
About the Event
Featureing some familair face from Newark, NJ and professional actors from the tri-state area, Progressive Theater present THE COLOR PURPLE!
Based upon the novel written by Alice Walker and The Warner Bros./Amblin Entertainment Motion Picture.
Book by Marcha Norman
Music and Lyrics by Brenda Russel, Allee Willis, and Stephen Bray
"THE COLOR PURPLE was produced on Broadway at the Broadway Theater by Oprah Winfry, Scot Sanders, Roy Furman and Quincy Jones. The world premiere of THE COLOR PURPLE was produced by the Alliance Theatre, Atlanta, Georgia.”