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highlights from local critics reviews - (click link at bottom of each review to read complete review)
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"There aren't a lot of musicals that you can say are both heartbreaking and humorous while also providing moments, and an ending, that are inspiring and uplifting, but The Color Purple manages to have all of these attributes. Based on Alice Walker's 1982 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, this beautiful and moving show portrays the sad but stirring journey of an African-American woman and the people in her life over a forty-year period. While the show isn't entirely perfect, as the first half is a series of slightly disjointed scenes, and I wish the score were slightly better, the production at The Phoenix Theatre Company has a wonderful cast and strong direction that results in a richly emotional experience...." -Gil Benbrook, Talkin' Broadway (click here to read the complete review)
"...The Phoenix Theatre Company’s superb production allows this rarely seen show to have an amazing impact as the plight of women is again at the forefront of discussion and deliberation. Gifted female performers bring these challenged women to pulsating life and the ensemble’s men bring their characters crass lack of understanding to life as the bigoted and bias people they are....It is the superb cast that takes this production to great artistic heights..." -Chris Curcio, Curtain Up Phoenix (click here to read the complete review)
"...(Marsha) Norman's musical captures the essence of Walker's vision, and, in The Phoenix Theatre Company's current production of THE COLOR PURPLE, director Daryl Brooks has crafted a masterpiece of transcendent theatre that embodies all the pain and spirit of a Gospel-sustained and resilient community and one of its children....This is a production of extraordinary power, vitality, and importance. Unequivocally, a must-see before it closes on May 1st." - Herbert Paine, Broadway World (click here to read the complete review)
Click here for more information on this production that runs through May 1
"There aren't a lot of musicals that you can say are both heartbreaking and humorous while also providing moments, and an ending, that are inspiring and uplifting, but The Color Purple manages to have all of these attributes. Based on Alice Walker's 1982 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, this beautiful and moving show portrays the sad but stirring journey of an African-American woman and the people in her life over a forty-year period. While the show isn't entirely perfect, as the first half is a series of slightly disjointed scenes, and I wish the score were slightly better, the production at The Phoenix Theatre Company has a wonderful cast and strong direction that results in a richly emotional experience...." -Gil Benbrook, Talkin' Broadway (click here to read the complete review)
"...The Phoenix Theatre Company’s superb production allows this rarely seen show to have an amazing impact as the plight of women is again at the forefront of discussion and deliberation. Gifted female performers bring these challenged women to pulsating life and the ensemble’s men bring their characters crass lack of understanding to life as the bigoted and bias people they are....It is the superb cast that takes this production to great artistic heights..." -Chris Curcio, Curtain Up Phoenix (click here to read the complete review)
"...(Marsha) Norman's musical captures the essence of Walker's vision, and, in The Phoenix Theatre Company's current production of THE COLOR PURPLE, director Daryl Brooks has crafted a masterpiece of transcendent theatre that embodies all the pain and spirit of a Gospel-sustained and resilient community and one of its children....This is a production of extraordinary power, vitality, and importance. Unequivocally, a must-see before it closes on May 1st." - Herbert Paine, Broadway World (click here to read the complete review)
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