Taraji P. Henson said she had to audition for "The Color Purple" because she wasn't the studio's pick. Henson said that she walked into her audition for Shug Avery "with a chip on my shoulder." "I had ...

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*Beginning with performances Tuesday, October 4, Tony and Grammy Award winner JENNIFER HOLLIDAY will assume the role of Shug Avery in John Doyle’s Tony Award-winning production of the Broadway musical ...

Did you know that the “P” in Taraji P. Henson stands for Prolific? Just kidding. It actually stands for Penda, which in Swahili means “hope/love.” But prolific might actually be too small a word to ...

*Jennifer Hudson is about to shake her shimmy on Broadway. The Oscar winning actress is will star as Shug Avery in a revival of The Color Purple, producers Scott Sanders, Roy Furman, and Oprah Winfrey ...

I’ve never experienced a performance as powerful and audience-rousing as Blitz Bazawule’s “The Color Purple” (2023). The musical numbers are visually stunning and the cast is stacked not just with big ...

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