'Everyone walked away with part of themselves healed' – 'The Color Purple' reimagined

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Some stories just seem to stay with us.

That's certainly the case for Alice Walker's The Color Purple. Her 1982 novel won a Pulitzer Prize and has since been the basis for a movie, then a Broadway musical, then a radio play. On Christmas Day, it's coming back to the big screen as a musical but with new music and a new treatment.

The story about African-American women who face physical and emotional brutality in early-20th-century Georgia — but manage to find hope and healing — is still an emotional whirlwind. In this latest version, director Blitz Bazawule finds new joy in the work — an antidote to some of the pain.