Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The song, titled "Keep It Movin'," is sung by Bailey as Nettie in the film, ...
Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The Color Purple first opened on Broadway in 2005, starring LaChanze in her ...
Nestled amid a tale of hardship and torment, “Keep It Movin'” is a bright spot in the newly released adaptation of “The Color Purple.” Just as sisters Nettie and Celie (Halle Bailey and Phylicia Pearl ...
Denisia Andrews and Brittany Coney of Nova Wav at the Musicology GRAMMY Day Brunch in April 2022 (Photo by Sam Morris/Getty Images) As far back as Steven Spielberg’s 1985 adaptation of Alice Walker’s ...
While the Original Song Oscar shortlist is typically good about spreading the wealth around, three movies dominated close to half the spaces. Barbie nabbed noms for three songs, while The Color Purple ...
Broadway star LaChanze doesn’t need Warner Bros. to love her, but she does want financial compensation for helping write a pivotal song from “The Color Purple.” The three-time Tony Award winner, who ...
Losing him was blue, like I’d never known / Missing him was dark gray, all alone / [. . .] / But loving him was red. So goes the title track off of Taylor Swift’s 2012 hit album Red, which, ...