'Color Purple' comes straight from the heart By Elysa Gardner
* * * out of four
* * * out of four
Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize winner becomes an entertaining if not totally successful Broadway musical.
The Color Purple Tony nominee Elisabeth Withers will release her second solo recording in September.
While the show crudely reduces the sprawling feminist saga to cartoonish episodes, it can count on an audience willing to connect the dots.
It is that rare bird: a serious, intelligent, crowd-pleasing Broadway musical.
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