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Miss Fantasia Is Doing Her Thing On Stage, And Letting It All Hang Out Off (If You Know What I Mean!)

American Idol winner turned Broadway sensation Fantasia breaks it down about her role as Celie in “The Color Purple”:

Miss Celie takes a lot out of me. I’m being told everyday that I’m ugly. … you can’t play the part if you don’t kind of put yourself in her and live her life. So it’s like, I carry that stuff with me. I put myself in her shoes in having (daughter) Zion at such a young age and dropping out of school and being in just bad and disrespected. I just feel like God won’t put too much on me than I can bear. As long as I feel like I’m touching somebody … as long as I’m blessing somebody, I know that I’ll be blessed.”

Thanks EUR Web & Bossip for the pics!

Now there does appear to be a freaky side to 23 year-old Ms. Barrino (C'mon, like you don't have one either!). For those pics, No Cream No Sugar has the hook-up. In the meantime, how about we listen to her jam, "When I See You!"

FOR BLACK 'IDOL' WINNER FANTASIA, LIFE IS A FAIRYTALE

Move Over Jennifer Hudson, Fantasia Is Not The Only One Determined To Make Us Love Her

Audiences adore Fantasia Barrino in Oprah's "The Color Purple"; now the "American Idol" songstress is in talks to extend her time on Broadway with a new show.

Rush And Molly is reporting that the sistah is in negotiations to star in a big musical based on the life of Ada (Bricktop) Smith, an African-American expatriate in Paris in the 1920s who became a nightlife queen.

Sometimes we forget, family, how many stories about us still have not been told.

Bricktop's is a great story. Known for her fire-red hair and freckles, Smith rose from humble beginnings in Alderson, W. Va., to become the toast of Paris in the Roaring '20s.

She was first employed overseas by American composer and songwriter extraordaire Cole Porter to teach dances such as the Charleston and the Black Bottom at his parties.

By 1929, she owned her own nightclubs such as The Music Box, Le Grand Duc and her famous Chez Bricktop, where she entertained Porter, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Porter wrote "Miss Otis Regrets" for her.

Smith's proteges included Duke Ellington, Mabel Mercer and Josephine Baker. She even worked with Langston Hughes when he was still a busboy.