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Fantasia starring as Celie in The Color Purple

FANTASIA (CELIE) & FELICIA FIELDS (SOFIA) IN THE COLOR PURPLE

Jul/25/09, 10:16 am

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The Color Purple starring Fantasia is offering discount tickets for the Atlanta show. Follow link for details.

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Chicago's Windy City Times interview with Fantasia. Excerpt below. Click on link for entire article.

NUNN ON ONE: THEATER Fantasia's colorful life
by Jerry Nunn
2009-08-26

Fantasia. The Color Purple.

Fantasia Barrino rose to fame with the third season of American Idol in 2004, winning the title. Since then, she has been the first artist to debut at number one, has been nominated for eight Grammy Awards and is currently touring with the musical version of The Color Purple. Windy City Times discussed how her life really is a fairy tale.
Windy City Times: Hi, Fantasia. I am excited about The Color Purple tour coming to a few select cities—and Chicago is one of them! Tell our readers about your road to playing the role of Celie.

FB: Miss Celie—I speak about her because she has become a friend of mine, you know. She's close to me now. I have been playing her for going on two years. First of all, I had never done Broadway. I had never seen a Broadway play. I used to ride by when I was doing live shows or going in and out of J Records. I was so curious because they would show parts of it outside on the screen and I loved the movie.

One day, when I was going up to see Clive Davis, he invited me to the show. I got on my new pumps and went to see it. I was blown away! The singing, the acting, the production—it was just like the movie and beautiful. Afterwards, Scott, the founder of the show—his group took me out to eat, and they were cool, Jerry, they were bubbly and they were nice. Him and Gary Griffin, who worked with me on acting, sat me down and after dinner they pulled out this paper. And the picture on the paper was a big marquee with my name on it. And I go, "This is so pretty. Can I have this?" And Scott said, "Yes, you can have it if you be my Celie."

WCT: How did you feel?

FB: I thought, "Why did they pick me?" I have never done Broadway. I had only acted in my Lifetime Channel movie where I played myself. I thought, "Why me?" I said, "Are you serious?" And they said, "Yes, we think that you are our next Celie." I told them to give me a couple of days because I don't like to jump into anything. I went home and thought about it. After reading the script, I knew why they wanted me to play it. I related so much to the part.

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It is being reported that Fantasia got sick today before appearing onstage here in Chi-Town for the Color Purple and had to be rushed to the hospital causing her understudy to stand in. Hundreds of ticket holders walked out of the theatre in outrage claiming they came from miles away just to see Fantasia in the play not her understudy. Show organizers are offering replacement tickets but Fantasia fans are demanding their money back. Fantasia's rep says she got sick from a turkey sandwich she ate right before show time.

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