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Article: Get your green ready for 'Color Purple' tickets.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- January 5, 2007
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Byline: Chris Jones
Jan. 5--With thoughts now turning to Miss Celie, Harpo and spring in Chicago, the in-box is full of questions about the Chicago production of the Broadway musical "The Color Purple," slated to arrive at the Cadillac Palace Theatre on April 17. If you're thinking about dropping big bucks for some tix, here's our unofficial guide to all you need to know. The posters say "The Color Purple." Is this the movie?
No--it's the live Broadway musical version. The source material is both the 1982 Alice Walker novel and the 1985 Steven Spielberg film--the latter of which unleashed Oprah Winfrey the actress on the world. Winfrey, ...