{"id":214,"date":"2021-04-18T12:54:18","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T16:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fredstories.com\/letstalkabouttheatre\/?p=214"},"modified":"2021-04-18T12:54:18","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T16:54:18","slug":"shades-of-the-color-purple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fredstories.com\/letstalkabouttheatre\/shades-of-the-color-purple\/","title":{"rendered":"Shades of \u201cThe Color Purple\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Color Purple\u201d was first known as best selling book than Oscar winning movie before it entered the stage.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alice Walker, the author of \u201cThe Color Purple\u201d, was the first black woman to win both the&nbsp;Pulitzer and National Books awards.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredstories.com\/letstalkabouttheatre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/image-17.png?resize=356%2C201&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-222\" width=\"356\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredstories.com\/letstalkabouttheatre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/image-17.png?resize=1024%2C578&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredstories.com\/letstalkabouttheatre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/image-17.png?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredstories.com\/letstalkabouttheatre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/image-17.png?resize=768%2C434&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredstories.com\/letstalkabouttheatre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/image-17.png?w=1100&amp;ssl=1 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 356px) 100vw, 356px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The story surrounds the character, Celie, a survivor of incest who lives most of <g class=\"gr_ gr_5 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear Grammar only-ins replaceWithoutSep\" id=\"5\" data-gr-id=\"5\">her<\/g> life as the servant of a violent man who refuses to marry her. He sees her ugliness as fit for backbreaking work and nothing else.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The story of \u201cThe Color Purple\u201d focuses on different challenging themes of abuse; physical, emotional, and sexual.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Color Purple\u201d focuses on empowering woman.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For too long, women were told they weren&#8217;t worth as much as a man. They were told to be quiet and accept that status quo. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredstories.com\/letstalkabouttheatre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/image-15.png?resize=256%2C170&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-218\" width=\"256\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredstories.com\/letstalkabouttheatre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/image-15.png?resize=1024%2C681&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredstories.com\/letstalkabouttheatre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/image-15.png?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredstories.com\/letstalkabouttheatre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/image-15.png?resize=768%2C511&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredstories.com\/letstalkabouttheatre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/image-15.png?w=1042&amp;ssl=1 1042w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Cynthia Erivo sings the song, \u201cI\u2019m Here\u201d, it is one of the most striking moments of the musical. It\u2019s incredibly emotional and everyone in the room can feel the passion behind each lyric.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The song shows that she is a powerful woman who is full of love, and doesn\u2019t need this abusive man to love her.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She has all these wonderful people and a wonderful home.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Towards the end of the song. the tempo changes and she sings the lyrics \u201cI\u2019m Beautiful and I\u2019m Here.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Watching her sing such powerful lyrics takes your breath away. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It speaks to all of us, we should all be reminded that we are beautiful and we are here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"70th Annual Tony Awards The Color Purple 2016 Cynthia Erivo Danielle Brookes Heather Headley\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3k2xzQyT2bk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Color Purple\u201d was first known as best selling book than Oscar winning movie before it entered the stage.\u00a0 Alice Walker, the author of \u201cThe Color Purple\u201d, was the first black woman to win both the&nbsp;Pulitzer and National Books awards.&nbsp; The story surrounds the character, Celie, a survivor of incest who lives most of her<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gender","category-race","category-theatre"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredstories.com\/letstalkabouttheatre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/image-18.png?fit=1657%2C1103&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fredstories.com\/letstalkabouttheatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fredstories.com\/letstalkabouttheatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fredstories.com\/letstalkabouttheatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fredstories.com\/letstalkabouttheatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fredstories.com\/letstalkabouttheatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fredstories.com\/letstalkabouttheatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226,"href":"https:\/\/fredstories.com\/letstalkabouttheatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fredstories.com\/letstalkabouttheatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fredstories.com\/letstalkabouttheatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fredstories.com\/letstalkabouttheatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fredstories.com\/letstalkabouttheatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}