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'Color Purple' hits stage as a musical

Few stories impact as strongly as Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Color Purple." The bittersweet travails of Celie, Sofia, Nettie and Shug - four very different Southern black women who are, in many ways, equally repressed - tug the heartstrings, regardless of gender, age or race.

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