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Author Message   Chrishayden "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Chrishayden Post Number: 1698 Registered: 03-2004 Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) Posted on Thursday, December 22, 2005 - 10:42 am:        Yesterday evening I attended, in response to a formal invitation, a reception at the Divoll Branch of the St. Louis Public Library held in honor of the opening of "The Color Purple" on Broadway. By the way former St. Louisan Kingsley Leggs is playing the part of Mister. He is a talented actor singer and dancer with a lot of experience in musicals and he should have the audience humming the songs and hating black men as they leave the theater-- But I digress. I was the only male there, as you can guess. A lot of cutting and sceptical looks were shot my way when I first came in--my fault: I should have left my twelve year old wife at home wit' de chilluns or at least let her ride the horse instead of making her run behind me, stepping in the horsey poop-- But I digress again. As you can expect, the dread name of Oprah was invoked--she done worked such hoodoo on her myrmidons that they were referring to the movie as her movie and not Spielberg's--I didn't correct them I thought it was just desserts for that rat We had a fine, lively discussion. Part of the movie was shown. We had refreshments, which I ate after I saw that everybody else ate them-- It was a Color Purple party and I am a black man, obviously the lowest form of life according to Oprah/Spielberg/Walker-- Anyway the interesting thing was that there was universal agreement that the book was much better than the movie. What did y'all think?   Roxie "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Roxie Post Number: 455 Registered: 06-2005 Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) Posted on Thursday, December 22, 2005 - 11:08 am:        I'm going up to see that in NY in January. I heard there was singing in the play........and THAT scares me.   Chrishayden "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Chrishayden Post Number: 1702 Registered: 03-2004 Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) Posted on Thursday, December 22, 2005 - 11:14 am:        Roxie: It is a musical--and still features all the incest (violence rape etc) of the original. Tough job   Nels "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Nels Post Number: 187 Registered: 07-2005 Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) Posted on Thursday, December 22, 2005 - 02:03 pm:        Good perspective Chris.