The relationship between Celie and Shug Avery, the alluring chanteuse played by Taraji P. Henson, in this version plays a mite truer to that of the novel. The sexuality — and sexualness — is ...
Shug is the opposite of Celie, who’s been raised to never understand how she could take control of her own life. Celie’s only respite is her sister Nettie (Halle Bailey of The Little Mermaid ...
Nettie runs off leaving Celie to a life of abject drudgery until the arrival of the beautiful singer “Shug Avery,” who needs some TLC which Celie can provide. The two are very much attracted ...
Kaela Green as Celie and Terri Manning as Shug star in “The Color Purple,” running through Jan. 26 at the Baldwin Theatre in Royal Oak. (Photo courtesy of Grace Cage) Jerry Haines, who has ...
However, her lawyers argued that Celie's sexuality was ambiguous ... relationship with a female blues and jazz singer, named Shug Avery. Ms Omooba's representative, Pavel Stroilov, said "the ...