The Color Purple - Leicester Curve / U.K. Tour

Just saw the matinee, and loved it. Cast uniformly superb - the three leads were faultless. Sets relatively simple, but effective (what more can you expect for two short runs?). Audience generally respectful, though there was a call out during one of the pauses of the climax of I’m Here - not helpful.

I wouldn’t say every song is a winner in this, but those which are good are up there with the best.

Would gladly see again!

My twopen'orth on this. Saw Wednesday's matinee and rated it a personal 9/10. The two young female leads were wonderful, I enjoyed all the music and I was unaware of any bad behaviour in the audience from my front row stalls seat. The two ladies either side of me were both wiping away tears at several points and it just about got me right at the end.

I was expecting the show to be darker than it was, overall I would describe more as uplifting than tragic. There's enough misery in the real world and I nearly didn't book based on what I knew about the book and the film. Very happy that I did. Lovely theatre too, my first visit there and won't be the last.

Hoping it either tours or gets a West End run, I'll be booking to see it again at the earliest opportunity.

Not really surprised by this but disappointing all the same.

Seyi Omooba will take the Curve Theatre in Leicester and Global Artists to court for breach of contract and religious discrimination.



www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-49881027

I’ve heard horror stories about Global Artists over the years, treating people horribly.

Posting here as well as General:

Legal Update per The Stage:  she's settled with Birmingham Hippodrome and still pursuing Curve.

Legal Update per The Stage

Didn't they co-produce it? So how can she drop it against one theatre but still be pursuing it with another? That seems unfair on Curve. I mean neither actually have a case to answer, cleary, we all i'm sure feel that, but surely both theatres share equal ownership of the decision.

Lovely to revisit this music again 😀

Curve is reopening with a run of a concert version of The Color Purple 23rd Nov - 5th Dec.

T'shan and Danielle return with the remaining cast to be announced.

553 capacity in the round (basically both spaces open) and featuring a revolve.

I'm sure they will announce this via their official channels a bit later.

I wonder if this will be a more traditional concert staging or they will try to spice it up again like Sunset? It's not Nikolai directing this one so my thoughts is it might be a more standard concert stream, but either way, it's very exciting to see the show again and great that Carly is joining as Shug.

A shame of course that it had to move online in the first place but better than not being able to see it at all.

I don't really understand the concept of streaming at the same time as an in-person show when something isn't being performed live.

I can't always guarantee I will be finished work by 7.30pm, especially these days, so my options for viewing this are much more limited than if you could pay for a stream you could access for 7 or 14 days, like Showstoppers did. At least Sunset offered multiple start times.

Behind the scenes video about the making of the show with many clips. I have to say this looks really quite stunning.





Starts streaming tomorrow for anyone still interested in watching.

I loved this this evening. I’d forgotten how gorgeous the score is and I loved the way this was staged in The Curve. Great performances all round. If I had a few tears at the end of Act One, I could probably be described as a blubbing mess in the last 20-odd minutes of Act Two!