Rousuck's Review: ----The Color Purple: The Musical,---- On The Road

It's Thursday, and that means our peripatetic theater critic, J. Wynn Rousuck, joins Tom in Studio A to review one of the region's many new stage productions. Today, Judy's reviewing the newly-revived traveling production of the Tony-Award-winning The Color Purple: The Musical, whose six-day run at The Hippodrome Theatre in Baltimore continues through this Sunday, October 22.The musical draws liberally from both Alice Walker’s Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel of the same name and from Steven Spielberg's Oscar-laden 1985 film adaptation (starring Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover and Oprah Winfrey), which tell the poignant four-decade-long story of Celie and Nettie, two sisters who survive sexual abuse, incest, racism and heart-breaking loss.The original musical production of The Color Purple ran on Broadway from 2005 to 2008, earning 16 Tony nominations, including nods to the book by playwright Marsha Norman and the music and lyrics of Brenda Russell, Ailee Willis and Stephen Bray. In 2013, director John Doyle ----reimagined---- the show, and his revival took Broadway by storm. It ran from 2015 until this past January (2017). Doyle's at the helm again with this new, revised national touring version of his Broadway revival.