The new adaptation of the award-winning novel is full of period costumes and dance numbers!
by Ariel Messman-Rucker for OUT –
A brand new trailer for the upcoming musical version of The Color Purple was released today that shows off beautiful period costumes, hints at musical numbers, and gives us a glimpse of out gay actor Colman Domingo’s turn as the villainous Mister.
In 1985 Steven Spielberg adapted Alice Walker’s heartbreaking and poignant novel The Color Purple, launching Whoopie Goldberg’s film career and showing the world that Oprah Winfrey wasn’t just a talk show host. Now, nearly 40 years later, we’re getting another adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winner — but this time, director Blitz Bazawule is using the musical stage play as its source material.
Set in early 1900s rural Georgia, the story follows Celie, a poor Black woman, and her family as she is forced to deal with abuse from almost every man whose path she crosses, including her husband Mister (Domingo).
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