The run closed January 8, 2017
- Opened
- 2015
- Closed
- January 8, 2017
- Performances
- 493
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
Of the 426 productions we hold that opened in the 2010s and record a performance count, this is the 50th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of The Color Purple 2 more that season
| 2005 | Broadway Theatre Original · Gary Griffin | 910 perf. |
| 2013 | Transfer Transfer |
Who was in it17 named
Isaiah Johnson
Kyle Scatliffe
Dwayne Clark
Lawrence Clayton
Carrie Compere
Bre Jackson
Antoine L Smith
10 of these 17 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 7 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters6 roles recorded
Adrianna Hicks Celie
Jennifer Hudson Shug Avery
Danielle Brooks Sofia
Gavin Gregory Mister/Albert
J. Daughtry Harpo
N'Jameh Camara Nettie
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- John Doyle, John
- Choreographer
- John Doyle
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Around this production
This revival won the Tony for Best Musical Revival. Cynthia Erivo's performance became legendary and launched her film career.
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No recording is held for The Color Purple at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.