The Broadway musical The Color Purple — I thought the full title was "Oprah Winfrey Presents: The Color Purple, Presented by Oprah Winfrey." Did I imagine that? — will begin a national tour in April 2007, starting with a six-month engagement in (all together now in an Oprah-like yell) Chi-ca-gooooooooo!
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One Life to Live has cast Brandon Victor Dixon as Daryl, Dorian Lord's (Robin Strasser) new assistant at Craze magazine. The actor, who first airs March 13, will be doing double duty as Harpo in Broadway's The Color Purple. Incidentally, Daytime Emmy nominee Renee Goldsberry (Evangeline) was part of that same production's original cast, in which she played Nettie.
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Out of respect for her privacy, TVGuide.com has chosen to wait until after the holidays to report that One Life to Live's Renée Elise Goldsberry (Evangeline) suffered a miscarriage. Although she had cut short her run in Broadway's The Color Purple specifically because she was expecting, Goldsberry still left the production as planned.
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Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey has agreed to appear on David Letterman's late-night talker for the first time since he switched networks to CBS in 1993. Although the origin of the celebs' "feud" is unclear, Winfrey once told Time that she felt "completely uncomfortable" as the target of Letterman's barbs; not helping matters was the talk king's infamously awkward "Uma, Oprah" shtick at the 1995 Oscars. Oprah, out to tout her Broadway production of The Color Purple, will sit with Dave on Dec. 1. Oh, this can't be good: The other guest for that night is Deepak Chopra.
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