Interesting thing about the "Color Purple" musical the first time I saw it was that at intermission, the feel was so hopeless, and I asked if anyone had seen the movie because if it ends up this hopeless, that was just the wrong day for this experience, so tell me does it end uplifting for as sad as it feels now. (It was very well done, almost too much so, but act 1 curtain came down on uncompromising despair.)