Watch the full #TheColorPurple trailer now. 💜 Musical adaptation of Alice Walker's novel about the life-long struggles of an African American woman living in the south during the early 1900s. The Color Purple musical is based on the 1982 novel of the same name by Alice Walker and its 1985 film. With a book by Marsha Norman and music and lyrics by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis, and Stephen Bra, the musical follows the journey of Celie, an African-American woman in the American South, over 40 year