Dreamgirls, 1987

The run closed November 29, 1987

Opened

June 28, 1987

Closed

November 29, 1987

Performances

177

Previews

7

Theatre

Ambassador Theatre

Of the 464 productions we hold that opened in the 1980s and carry a performance count, this is the 100th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Dreamgirls 3 more that season

Who was in it27 named

Susan Beaubian
Stephen Bourneuf
Yvette Louise Cason
Tim Cassidy
Robert Clater
Matthew Dickens
Germaine Edwards
Robert Fowler
Alisa Gyse
Rhetta Hughes
Roy L Jones
Lynda Mcconnell
Leonard Piggee
Herbert L Rawlings Jr
R Lachanze Sapp
Vernon Spencer
David Thome
Weyman Thompson
Shirley Tripp
Loraine Velez
Arnetia Walker
Fuschia Walker
Sharon Brown

4 of these 27 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 23 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name, so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Creative team

Director

Michael Peters

Choreographer

Michael Peters

Producer

Marvin A. Krauss

A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.

Recordings 16 held for the work

None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against Dreamgirls, and nothing says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.

What this page does not know

• No photograph of this staging.
• No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
• Which of the 16 recordings of Dreamgirls document this run, if any.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.