All musicals at the Ahmanson

“The Color Purple,” the acclaimed John Doyle staging of “Sweeney Todd” and a return visit for “The Drowsy Chaperone” are among Broadway musicals past and present that will make up the Center Theatre Group’s unprecedented all-musical 2007-08 Ahmanson Theatre season.

Announced Monday, the season opens with the 2004 Tony Award-winning actor-and-puppet comedy “Avenue Q” (Sept. 7-Oct. 14), followed by “The Color Purple” (Jan. 2-March 10), based on Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and the Steven Spielberg film, with Jeannette Bayardelle and Felicia P. Fields, both veterans of the Broadway production, former Destiny’s Child member Michelle Williams and “American Idol’s” LaToya London. (In a special arrangement, Broadway/L.A. will also offer the Ahmanson run to its subscribers.)

A touring production of 1976’s “A Chorus Line,” which returned to Broadway last October, winds up the season in 2008 (May 22-July 6). Also on tap as bonus offerings: “The Drowsy Chaperone,” the comic valentine to 1920s musicals and last year’s big Tony Award winner (July 9-20); Stephen Sondheim’s “Sweeney Todd,” which originated in London and went to Broadway last year (March 12-April 6, 2008); and Cameron Mackintosh’s and the National Theatre of Great Britain’s 2001 production of Lerner and Loewe’s “My Fair Lady,” staged by director Trevor Nunn and choreographer Matthew Bourne (April 10-27).

-- Lynne Heffley