Also credited on2 works
These come off the person record, which names a work and not a production. So we can say this name is attached to the work and we cannot say which staging, or in what capacity. For a composer or a writer that is the whole career we hold; there is no cast list to find them in.
In the literature8 passages
- • The Color Purple , a musical based on the novel of Alice Walker, developed at the Alliance Theatre, Atlanta. The Color Purple ran through February 2008, playing 940 performances and grossing $104 million.ebooks/Donahue, Tim & Patterson, Jim/Stage Money_ The Business of the Professional Theater - Tim Donahue & Jim Patterson.txt
- The Color Purple (2005–2006) was more retro and sentimental than Caroline, or Change , so it ran almost seven times longer. To be fair, librettist Marsha Norman and songwriters Brenda Russell, Stephen Bray, and Allee Wills had one great benefit: great name recognition from Alice Walker’s best-selling 1983 Pulitzer Prize–winning novel and…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks - Peter Filichia.txt
- Although this was the new millennium, The Color Purple offered that secondary comic relief couple. Harpo, Ol’ Mister’s son, would do anything to please his Big Beautiful Woman Sofia: busty, lusty, defiant, and impossible not to admire. It was the role that propelled Oprah Winfrey to stardom, and Winfrey returned the favor by producing thi…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks - Peter Filichia.txt
- Mr. Isaacson is chair of the Investment Committee of the Independent Presenters Network (IPN), which is a producer of the 2005-06 season production The Color Purple, as well as the 2005 Tony Award-winning Best Musical, Monty Python’s Spamalot. Other IPN productions include the Broadway production and national tour of Thoroughly Modern Mil…ebooks/Unknown/Commercial Theater Institute Guide to Producing Plays and Musicals, The - Unknown.txt
- In the later twentieth and into the twenty-first century, many musicals offered two women the principal roles (or two of the principal roles in addition to men) and positioned them explicitly as a singing and dancing couple. The duos were enemies turned collaborators like Velma and Roxie in Chicago (1975) and Elphaba and Glinda in Wicked…ebooks/Wolf, Stacy/Changed for Good_A Feminist History of the Broadway Musical - Stacy Wolf.txt
- While The Color Purple is the only musical discussed in this chapter that had the backing of that particular corporate giant, all of them—Jason Robert Brown and Alfred Uhry’s Parade (1998), Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori’s Caroline, or Change (2003), and Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes’s In the Heights (2008)—experienced what…ebooks/Wolf, Stacy/Changed for Good_A Feminist History of the Broadway Musical - Stacy Wolf.txt
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