The color purple / music and lyrics by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis, and Stephen Bray ; book by Marsha Norman ; based upon the novel by Alice Walker and the Warner Bros./Amblin Entertainment motion picture ; [screenplay by Menno Meyjes], 2005.

New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Theatre on Film and Tape Archive

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Since 1970, the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive (TOFT) has preserved live theatrical productions and documented the creative contributions of distinguished artists and legendary figures of the theatre. With the consent and cooperation of the theatrical unions and each production's artistic collaborators, TOFT produces video recordings of Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regional theatre productions, as well as dialogues between notable theatre personalities. ...

Walker, Alice, 1944-

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Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker (born February 9, 1944, Eatonton, Georgia), American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which she was awarded for her novel The Color Purple.[3][4] Over the span of her career, Walker has published seventeen novels and short story collections, twelve non-fiction works, and collections of essays and poetry....

Griffin, Gary, 1945-

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Gary Griffin, metalsmith; Bloomfield Hills, Mich., b. 1945. Glenn Adamson, curator, art historian, Wisconsin. From the description of Oral history interview with Gary Griffin, 2004 Aug. 4 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 85027332 Gary Griffin, 1945, was a metalsmith of Bloomfield Hills, Mich. Glenn Adamson, curator, art historian, Wisconsin. From the description of Oral history interview with Gary Griffin, 2004 Aug. 4 [sound recording]. (Unknown)...

Norman, Marsha.

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First produced at the Humana Festival of New American Plays, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Louisville, Ky. in 1991. Later published by Samuel French as Loving Daniel Boone. From the description of D. Boone / by Marsha Norman, 1992. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 740500485 ...

Winfrey, Oprah, 1954-

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Oprah Winfrey is an American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropist. She is best known for her talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, broadcast from Chicago, which was the highest-rated television program of its kind in history and ran in national syndication for 25 years, from 1986 to 2011. Dubbed the "Queen of All Media," she was the richest African-American of the 20th century, was once the world's only Black billionaire and the greatest Black philanthropist in U...

Willis, Allee

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Jones, Quincy, 1933-....

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An impresario in the broadest and most creative sense of the word, Quincy Jones' career has encompassed the roles of composer, record producer, artist, film producer, arranger, conductor, instrumentalist, television producer, record company executive, magazine founder and multi-media entrepreneur. As a master inventor of musical hybrids, he has shuffled pop, soul, hip-hop, jazz, classical, African and Brazilian music into many dazzling fusions, traversing virtually every medium, including record...

Meyjes, Menno.

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Bray, Stephen

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Russell, Brenda L.

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