December 14, 2021 - Following performances in London, Cynthia Erivo made her Broadway debut in the 2015 revival of The Color Purple. Directed by John Doyle, the production opened at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre December 10, playing 33 previews and 450 performances ...

October 28, 2025 - The cast included Cynthia Erivo (Celie), Nicola Hughes (Shug) and Christopher Colquhoun (Mister/Albert). On January 9, 2015, producers Scott Sanders, Roy Furman, and Oprah Winfrey announced that the Menier Chocolate Factory production would be mounted on Broadway.

5 days ago - Erivo made her West End debut in the stage musical The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (2011), and her Broadway debut as Celie in the musical revival of The Color Purple (2015–2017).

February 19, 2016 - Jennifer Hudson, Cynthia Erivo · The Color Purple (2015 Broadway Cast Recording) · Song · 2016

THE COLOR PURPLE, 2016 Tony Award® winner for Best Musical Revival, played its final performance January 8, 2017.

Cynthia Erivo received a 2016 Tony Award for her Broadway debut as Celie in The Color Purple.

November 21, 2024 - When Warner Bros.’ 2023 movie adaptation of the Broadway musical “The Color Purple” began casting and production, many fans of the 2015 revival — and its Tony-winning lead actress, Cynthia Erivo — were surprised that its star would not reprise the role that made her famous for the big screen.

December 16, 2021 - Directed by John Doyle, the production played 33 previews and 450 performances before closing January 8, 2017. The revival earned four Tony Award nominations, winning two including Best Revival of a Musical and Best Actress in a Musical for Cynthia ...

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March 26, 2020 - At one point the nightclub singer Shug (Jennifer Hudson, making her Broadway debut) steps onstage in a periwinkle suit, but that’s the closest the production comes to flamboyance. A restrained expansion of the production Doyle debuted at the Menier Chocolate Factory in London in 2013; this version is streamlined and stripped down. Doyle’s strategy allows the fine performances, particularly Cynthia Erivo as the downtrodden Celie, to brighten it up. Move over Whoopi! How Cynthia Erivo made The Color Purple her own

May 9, 2024 - Then, in 2015, a revival of “The Color Purple” opened on Broadway at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre. The production was directed by John Doyle and starred Cynthia Erivo as Celie, alongside Jennifer Hudson and Danielle Brooks.

December 22, 2015 - Ms. Erivo, a 28-year-old British actress, is the talk of Broadway as critics rave about her performance as Celie in a revival of “The Color Purple.”

December 25, 2023 - Cynthia Erivo as Celie in The Color Purple at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre in New York, Nov. 7, 2015; Fantasia Barrino as Celie in Warner Bros. Entertainment's The Color Purple; LaChanze, center, in The Color Purple at the Broadway Theater in New York in Oct.

Directed by Tony Award winner John Doyle, the cast is led by Grammy, Academy Award and Golden Globe award winner Jennifer Hudson; Tony, Grammy and Emmy Award winner (and Oscar nominee) Cynthia Erivo; and Orange is the New Black's Danielle Brooks.

July 9, 2024 - Erivo's performance as Celie in the 2015 Broadway revival of The Color Purple would earn her a 2016 Tony Award—the rare win that year that didn't go to Hamilton—and near instant superstardom.

November 27, 2024 - Watch Cynthia Erivo Get Elphaba Makeup Done in Dramatic Timelapse Video: 'More Than Just a Green Girl' (Exclusive) Erivo, 37, played Celie in the musical adaptation of The Color Purple, alongside Hudson's Shug Avery.

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December 11, 2015 - A stripped-back Broadway revival of The Color Purple has earned rave reviews for British leading lady Cynthia Erivo.