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Archive Home > 2008 > December > 19 > Triumph & jazz

Triumph & jazz

Award-winning ‘Color Purple’ musical to open in Portland

By Jenny Harada / The Bulletin
December 19, 2008

With issues of infanticide, domestic violence, racial oppression and spiritual crisis, “The Color Purple” could give you the blues.

However, using a score filled with jazz, ragtime, gospel and blues, the Oprah Winfrey-produced musical presents an inspiring story about one....

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