"The Color Purple," the acclaimed John Doyle staging of "Sweeney Todd" and a return visit for "The Drowsy Chaperone" are among Broadway musicals past and present that will make up the Center Theatre Group's unprecedented all-musical 2007-08 Ahmanson Theatre season.
Announced Monday, the season opens with the 2004 Tony Award-winning actor-and-puppet comedy "Avenue Q" (Sept. 7-Oct. 14), followed by "The Color Purple" (Jan. 2-March 10), based on Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and the Steven Spielberg film, with Jeannette Bayardelle and Felicia P. Fields, both veterans of the Broadway production, former Destiny's Child member Michelle Williams and "American Idol's" LaToya London. (In a special arrangement, Broadway/L.A. will also offer the Ahmanson run to its subscribers.)
