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

(L-R) Taraji P. Henson as Shug Avery, Fantasia Barrino as Celie and Danielle Brooks as Sofia in The Color Purple, a Warner Bros. Pictures release. (Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures/Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures)

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.