Maryland connection is strong in new movie musical version of ‘The Color Purple’

An accidental phone call last March led Rashad Corey to what he calls the job of a lifetime. Corey, 35, was trying to get hired for four months for the highly anticipated “The Color Purple,” the new musical version of the screen classic. But he kept being forwarded to supervisors with no success. But that day, the husband of the project’s key costumer misdialed Corey’s number, which led to a conversation and subsequently an invitation to be hired as a costumer.