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Podcast: Vocalo Radio
Episode: ‘The Color Purple’ Musical Heads To The Big Screen With Fantasia Barrino, Danielle Brooks and Taraji P. Henson
Description: Film critic Reggie “The Reel Critic” Ponder sat down with Fantasia Barrino, Danielle Brooks and Taraji P. Henson, stars of the film adaptation of the musical ‘The Color Purple,’ based on Alice Walker’s novel of the same name. The first film adaptation of Walker’s book was produced by Steven Spielberg and Quincy Jones in 1985, and the duo joined together again for the newest release as co-producers, alongside the stage musical’s producers Scott Sanders and Oprah Winfrey. ‘The Color Purple’ is a decades-long epic following Celie (Fantasia Barrino), a young woman living in the South in the early 1900s. The new film al...