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The color purple

Title: The color purple [videorecording] / Alliance Theatre, Susan V. Booth, artistic director, Thomas Pechar, managing director, by special arrangement with Creative Battery and Scott Sanders Productions, presents ; associate producer, Todd Johnson ; book by Marsha Norman ; based on the novel by Alice Walker, and the Warner Bros./Amblin Entertainment motion picture ; [screenplay by Menno Meyjes] ; music and lyrics by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis, and Stephen Bray ; choreography by Ken Roberson ; directed by Gary Griffin.
Publication: Atlanta, Ga., 2004.

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Description

1 videocassette (VHS) (149 min.) : sd., col. SP; 1/2 in.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of the Alliance Theatre.

Subjects

Abused women > Drama
Families, Black > United States > Drama
African American women > Drama
Meyjes, Menno > Adaptations
Musicals
Man-woman relationships > Drama
Families > Drama
Musical theater > Georgia > Atlanta
African American theater > Georgia > Atlanta
Theatrical productions > Georgia > Atlanta > 2001-2010
Walker, Alice, 1944- > Adaptations

Genre/Form

Musicals.

Note

No credits on tape. Production information gathered from program.
Image quality is poor, dim and indistinct.
Audio quality is erratic. Loud buzz throughout.
A videorecording of the Broadway production of this musical, taped at the Broadway Theatre on April 12, 2006 and featuring the opening night cast, is available on NCOV 3219. A later videorecording of this production, taped on Jan. 2, 2008 and featuring Fantasia as Celie, is available on NCOV 3392.

Access (note)

Permission required.

Credits (note)

Scenic design by John Lee Beatty ; costume design by Paul Tazewell ; lighting design by Brian MacDevitt ; sound design by Jon Weston ; orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick ; dramaturg, Tanya Barfield ; dance arranger, Daryl Waters ; fight coordinator, Jason Armit ; prod. stage manager, Joel Rosen.

Performer (note)

LaChanze, Barry Anbinder, Philip Michael Baskerville, Khadijah Davis, Brandon Victor Dixon, Anika Ellis, Shannon Eubanks, Felicia P. Fields, James Harkness, Kimberly Ann Harris, Kingsley Leggs, Adriane Lenox, Krisha A. Marcano, Don Mayo, Tatiana McConnico, JC Montgomery, Darrell Grand Moultrie, Desi Raines, Stacey Sargeant, Saycon Sengbloh, Debra M. Walton, Marah Elizabeth Williams, Kenny Redell Williams, Maia Nkenge Wilson, Virginia Ann Woodruff, B. J. Myers, Romie Williams.

Event (note)

Videotaped by the Alliance Theatre, Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 16, 2004.

Call Number

NCOV 2901

OCLC

NYPG05-F10212

Title

The color purple [videorecording] / Alliance Theatre, Susan V. Booth, artistic director, Thomas Pechar, managing director, by special arrangement with Creative Battery and Scott Sanders Productions, presents ; associate producer, Todd Johnson ; book by Marsha Norman ; based on the novel by Alice Walker, and the Warner Bros./Amblin Entertainment motion picture ; [screenplay by Menno Meyjes] ; music and lyrics by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis, and Stephen Bray ; choreography by Ken Roberson ; directed by Gary Griffin.

Imprint

Atlanta, Ga., 2004.

Access

Permission required.

Credits

Scenic design by John Lee Beatty ; costume design by Paul Tazewell ; lighting design by Brian MacDevitt ; sound design by Jon Weston ; orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick ; dramaturg, Tanya Barfield ; dance arranger, Daryl Waters ; fight coordinator, Jason Armit ; prod. stage manager, Joel Rosen.

Cast

LaChanze, Barry Anbinder, Philip Michael Baskerville, Khadijah Davis, Brandon Victor Dixon, Anika Ellis, Shannon Eubanks, Felicia P. Fields, James Harkness, Kimberly Ann Harris, Kingsley Leggs, Adriane Lenox, Krisha A. Marcano, Don Mayo, Tatiana McConnico, JC Montgomery, Darrell Grand Moultrie, Desi Raines, Stacey Sargeant, Saycon Sengbloh, Debra M. Walton, Marah Elizabeth Williams, Kenny Redell Williams, Maia Nkenge Wilson, Virginia Ann Woodruff, B. J. Myers, Romie Williams.

Event

Videotaped by the Alliance Theatre, Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 16, 2004.

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Added Author

Booth, Susan V., producer.

Pechar, Thomas, producer.

Sanders, Scott, 1957- producer.

Johnson, Todd, producer.

Norman, Marsha, librettist.

Walker, Alice, 1944-

Meyjes, Menno.

Russell, Brenda. Color purple.

Russell, Brenda, composer.

Russell, Brenda, lyricist.

Willis, Allee, composer.

Willis, Allee, lyricist.

Bray, Stephen, composer.

Bray, Stephen, lyricist.

Roberson, Ken, choreographer.

Griffin, Gary, director.

Beatty, John Lee, 1948- set designer.

Tazewell, Paul, costume designer.

MacDevitt, Brian, lighting designer.

Weston, Jon, sound designer.

Tunick, Jonathan, orchestrations.

Barfield, Tanya, dramaturg.

Waters, Daryl, arranger of music.

Armit, Jason, fight coordinator.

Rosen, Joel, production stage manager.

LaChanze, performer.

Anbinder, Barry, performer.

Baskerville, Philip Michael, performer.

Davis, Khadijah, performer.

Dixon, Brandon Victor, 1981- performer.

Ellis, Anika, performer.

Eubanks, Shannon, performer.

Fields, Felicia P., performer.

Harkness, James, performer.

Harris, Kimberly Ann, performer.

Leggs, Kingsley, performer.

Lenox, Adriane, performer.

Marcano, Krisha, performer.

Mayo, Don, performer.

McConnico, Tatiana, performer.

Montgomery, J. C., performer.

Moultrie, Darrell Grand, performer.

Raines, Desi, performer.

Sargeant, Stacey, performer.

Sengbloh, Saycon, 1977- performer.

Walton, Debra, performer.

Williams, Marah Elizabeth, performer.

Williams, Kenny Redell, performer.

Wilson, Maia Nkenge, performer.

Woodruff, Virginia Ann, performer.

Myers, B. J., performer.

Williams, Romie, performer.

Alliance Theater (Atlanta, Ga.), producer.

Creative Battery (Firm), producer.

Scott Sanders Productions, producer.

Warner Bros.

Amblin Entertainment (Firm)

Research Call Number

NCOV 2901

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