{"id":10967,"date":"2010-02-11T14:01:21","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T21:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/?p=10967"},"modified":"2010-02-11T14:01:21","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T21:01:21","slug":"shug-avery-and-the-color-purple-comin-to-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/shug-avery-and-the-color-purple-comin-to-town\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Shug Avery (and The Color Purple) Comin To Town&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10969\" title=\"fantasia,-sb,aw.br_5855\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/fantasia-sbaw.br_5855.jpg\" alt=\"fantasia,-sb,aw.br_5855\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/fantasia-sbaw.br_5855.jpg 550w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/fantasia-sbaw.br_5855-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/>\n<p>No official Kitsch O&#8217; The Day entry today as I&#8217;m getting ready for the opening tonight of the last stop on the first national tour of my musical, The Color Purple. The second tour begins in March but it&#8217;s a whole new production and whole new cast. I will miss my amazing Color Purple family of the last five years BEYOND IMMENSELY!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s me and my two music\/lyric collaborators, Stephen Bray and Brenda Russell with Stephen&#8217;s daughter Milena and our fantasically amazing Celie, Fantasia, last night after previews.<\/p>\n<p>The show runs from now through the 28th at the Pantages in LA.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10971\" title=\"pantages_5841\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/pantages_5841.jpg\" alt=\"pantages_5841\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/pantages_5841.jpg 550w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/pantages_5841-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10975\" title=\"TCP-in-LA-aw,-fantastioa_1261\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/TCP-in-LA-aw-fantastioa_1261.jpg\" alt=\"TCP-in-LA-aw,-fantastioa_1261\" width=\"377\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/TCP-in-LA-aw-fantastioa_1261.jpg 377w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/TCP-in-LA-aw-fantastioa_1261-251x300.jpg 251w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 377px) 100vw, 377px\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No official Kitsch O&#8217; The Day entry today as I&#8217;m getting ready for the opening tonight of the last stop on the first national tour of my musical, The Color Purple. The second tour begins in March but it&#8217;s a whole new production and whole new cast. I will miss my amazing Color Purple family &hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/shug-avery-and-the-color-purple-comin-to-town\/\">read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,19,87,193,13,249,75,997],"tags":[61,3245,3256,943],"class_list":["post-10967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afro","category-art","category-kitsch","category-kitsch-o-the-day","category-music","category-people","category-songwriting","category-the-color-purple","tag-allee-willis","tag-kitsch-o-the-day","tag-the-color-purple","tag-the-color-purple-musical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}