The Color Purple at Toby's Dinner Theatre - Columbia

The Color Purple

Toby's Dinner Theatre - Columbia
5900 Synmphony Woods Road Columbia

This Pulitzer prize winning story is about hope and the healing power of love. Oprah Winfrey starred in the critically acclaimed movie and produced this unforgettable and inspiring story of a woman named Celie, who finds the strength to triumph over adversity, and discover her unique voice in the world. A vibrant, sweeping musical - powerful and irresistible!

Thru - Nov 11, 2012

Price: $49 - $54

Show Type: Musical

Running Time: 2 hrs, 45mins with 1 intermission

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The Color Purple Reviews

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DC Theater Arts - Highly Recommended

"... A joyful noise is ringing loud and clear from the rafters of Toby’s Dinner Theatre of Columbia as the 11-time Tony Award nominated production of The Color Purple, ‘The Musical About Love’ makes its Columbia area debut. The show has music and lyrics written by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis and Stephen Braya, with a book by Tony Award winner Marsha Norman."

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- Amanda Gunther

Baltimore Sun - Highly Recommended

"... Expecting the usual entertaining evening delivered by talented players at Toby's Dinner Theatre of Columbia, I found instead a life-affirming, near-religious experience watching "The Color Purple" — a musical epic tracing one woman's journey from abject subjugation in youth to love, power and nobility in later life."

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- Mary Johnson

ShowBizRadio - Highly Recommended

"... The Color Purple is a first-class production. Everything about it is done with professionalism and style. There is an intense precision and planning throughout that translates into something subtle and beautiful. Fans of the book and/or movie will not be disappointed with this new reimagining of an old classic."

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- Jennifer Perry

DCTheatreScene - Highly Recommended

There’s a reason why Toby’s Dinner Theater is packing them in for Color Purple—excellent casting, beautiful vocals, and spirited direction tell a poignant story of human fortitude and redemption.

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- Debbie Jackson

BroadwayWorld - Recommended

"... The 2005 musical of Alice Walker’s epochal novel The Color Purple, now revived at Toby’s Columbia, is a more-than-honorable attempt to capture the principal themes and incidents of the book in the musical medium. The book is a relatively short read, but an epic for all that, embracing, among other things, conflicts of the sexes, the mysteries of the changing human character, the fluidity of sexuality, colonialism, tribalism, religion, transgression and forgiveness, all in the context of African American and African history in the first four decades of the 20 th Century. To make room for all this material, the book zooms ahead from the opening instant. The very first page drags us through one birth, another pregnancy, and the rape of the heroine, Celie, by the man she believes is her father. It seldom lets up from that point."

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- Jack L. B. Gohn

The Color Purple at Toby's Dinner Theatre - Columbia

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The Color Purple Reviews

DC Theater Arts - Highly Recommended

Baltimore Sun - Highly Recommended

ShowBizRadio - Highly Recommended

DCTheatreScene - Highly Recommended

BroadwayWorld - Recommended

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