Bailey Lawson performs Celie's song from The Color Purple, celebrating her sister's return with gratitude and joy. The performance shifts into spoken word that expands the theme into spiritual meditation, describing God in nature, love as a unifying force, and the transformative power of small acts.
Based on the popular novel and Steven Spielberg film by the same name, the show The Color Purple was a huge hit on Broadway in 2005. The show is currently playing on Broadway in a 2015 revival with Jennifer Hudson. In the song "The Color Purple," Celie, played by Bailey Lawson, rejoices at the reunion of her younger sister Nettie. She sings to God, thanking him for her sister's safe return. And though Celie is old, she believes this is the youngest she has ever felt. We now present Bailey Lawson and the entire MBT class with the color purple.
Dear trees, dear sky, dear peoples, dear everything, dear God. God is inside me and everyone else that knows or ever will be.
I came to share with God.
And when I finally looked inside, I found it. God is the flowers and everything else that was or ever will be. And when you feature So we, when we loved the baby, we found it just as sure as moonlight blesses the night.
Rising like the sun, he's a hope that sets us free. Your heart beat.
Make my heart beat.
We share love like a rain of gold, like a bloody leaf, like a waterfall, all the blood of me, like the color purple. —come from. Now my eyes are open. Look what God has done. Take a grain of love to make a mighty tree. Even the smallest voice can make a harmony. Like a drop of water keep a river high. There are Miracles for you and God.
I don't think us be old at all. I think this is the youngest us ever felt.
