Overview
- Kris Kollins will make his professional stage debut as The Kid alongside Rachel Webb as Apollonia in the world-premiere run of Purple Rain.
- The musical is scheduled at Minneapolis’s State Theatre from October 16 to November 16 with previews cited for October 16 and an official opening on November 5.
- Pulitzer Prize winner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins wrote the book, Lileana Blain-Cruz directs, and Ebony Williams serves as choreographer supported by designers David Zinn and Montana Levi Blanco.
- Tony winner Jason Michael Webb supervises music while Prince collaborators Bobby Z and Morris Hayes act as music advisers to preserve the original soundtrack.
- Producers have released a first-look rehearsal video of the leads performing “Take Me With U” as they ready the production before an undisclosed Broadway transfer.