While the title song from the musical is the finale of the current film, the stage verison features a solo version of "The Color Purple" that Shug Avery sings to Celie after "African Homeland." ...
Hate on musicals all you like, there remains an artistic reason for this "The Color Purple" singing. The relationship between Celie and Shug Avery, the alluring chanteuse played by Taraji P.
The Colour Purple was produced by Oprah Winfrey and has already received one Oscar nominationThe Colour Purple movie will be ...
"The Color Purple is a book about Black lesbians ... Central to that journey is her relationship with another woman, Shug Avery — yet both Steven Spielberg’s 1985 film and Blitz Bazawule ...
The central character, Celie, is played by Gabriella McKinley, whom I first saw in THE COLOR PURPLE at Buffalo State University where she played Shug Avery. At the time I was wowed, and I’ve b ...