Sanders and his cast have, to perfection, captured all that was brilliant, and bad, about the blaxploitation flicks of the 1970s … all the sharp, colourful suits and wide lapels, all the swagger, all the jive dialogue and all the action.

The Color Purple, a musical based on Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, will have Oprah Winfrey as a producer and investor when it opens on Broadway in December.

Steven Spielberg's 1985 film The Color Purple will be the basis for a Broadway musical.