July 25, 2008
Theater
Critic's choice: 'The Color Purple'
Incest and child abuse might not seem natural subjects
for a Broadway musical, but The Color Purple, based on Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, demonstrated
that such grim, real-life problems could draw droves of
theatergoers on the Great White Way. Chances are that it
will do the same in Baltimore, when the national tour settles into the Hippodrome Theatre for nearly a month.
The musical, with a script by Tony Award winner Marsha
Norman, has more comic elements than the 1982 book or
the Stephen Spielberg film made three years later. But the
joyous score, featuring jazz, ragtime, gospel and blues, and
triumphal theme of a poor black woman triumphing over
adversity still have the power to move theatergoers to tears.
The Color Purple runs at the France-Merrick Performing
Arts Center, 12 N. Eutaw St., April 29-May 25. Show times
are 8 p.m. Tuesdays-Fridays; 2 p.m., 8 p.m. Saturdays; and
1 p.m., 6:30 p.m. Sundays. Tickets are $34-$80. Call
410-547-7328 or go to france-merrickpac.com.
Mary Carole McCauley
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