*A star-studded musical tribute to music legend Quincy Jones will go down at the Hollywood Bowl on July 28 and 29.
The legendary music producer turned 90 in March, and the celebration will continue with the two-day concert series titled “Quincy Jones’ 90th-Birthday Tribute: A Musical Celebration.” As Urban Hollywood 411 reports, the event will feature Jennifer Hudson, H.E.R., Patti Austin, Angélique Kidjo, Ibrahim Maalouf, Tori Kelly, BJ The Chicago Kid, Alfredo Rodriguez, Sheléa, Samara Joy and Siedah Garrett, the Hollywood Bowl announced in a recent press release.
“It’s an honor to be able to celebrate my 90th year on this planet with all-a-y’awl at the Hollywood Bowl, with some of my most treasured friends, musicians and songs,” Quincy Jones said in a statement. “Thank-Q for keeping the music playing with and for me, and I can’t wait to see you all there!”
The artists will perform some of Jones’ best-selling songs, such as Michael Jackson’s “P.Y.T.” and “Thriller.”
Additional details about his birthday tribute can be found here.
Meanwhile, Jones serves as a producer, along with Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg, on the upcoming movie musical “The Color Purple.”
Directed by Blitz Bazawule, the upcoming movie musical follows the classic 1985 film adaptation from Spielberg and centers on Celie, a Black Southern woman who struggles to find her identity amid decades of abuse. Whoopi Goldberg played Celie in Spielberg’s film.
Spielberg’s film was a box office success, grossing $142 million against a budget of $15 million.
The cast of the reboot includes Taraji P. Henson as Shug Avery, Danielle Brooks as Sofia, Corey Hawkins as Harpo, singer H.E.R. as Squeak (originally played by Rae Dawn Chong in Spielberg’s film), Ciara will play Nettie, the younger sister of Celie, who will be portrayed by Fantasia, Entertainment Weekly reports. Grammy-winner Jon Batiste, per Deadline, “will make his big-screen acting debut as Grady, a debonair, sweet-talking piano man who is the epitome of charm and eloquence and husband of Shug Avery. Bennet Guillory played the role in the 1985 feature,” the outlet writes.
The highly-anticipated musical also stars Halle Bailey and Colman Domingo.
As reported by Variety, the forthcoming Warner Bros. movie is an adaptation of the Tony-winning Broadway musical by Marsha Norman, Brenda Lee, Allee Willis and Stephen Bray, which was based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker.
“The Color Purple” makes its theatrical debut on Christmas.
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