Marsha Norman

Mar 15, 2024 | theaterbyte.com | Brandon DuHamel |Marcus Gardley |Alice Walker |Marsha Norman

Estimated reading time: 6 minutesThis musical remake of the Alice Walker novel The Color Purple, originally brought to screen in 1985 by Steven Spielberg, and first brought to the stage as a musical, tells the story of two Black sisters in Jim Crow Georgia, Celie (Fantasia Barrino) and Nettie Harris (Ciara) who escape their physically and sexually abusive father.