Dreamgirls
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Dreamgirls is a Broadway musical, with music by Henry Krieger and lyrics and book by Tom Eyen. It is based on the show business aspirations and successes of R&B acts such as The Shirelles, James Brown, Jackie Wilson, and others, and particularly The Supremes, as the musical follows the story of a young Black female singing trio from Chicago, Illinois called "The Dreams", who become music superstars.
- Opened
- 1981
- Performances
- 1,521
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Megamusical
Productions4 on Broadway
| 1981 | Imperial Theatre Original. December 20, 1981 · Michael Bennett | 1,521 performances · 6 Tony wins |
| 1987 | Ambassador Theatre Revival. June 28, 1987 · Michael Peters | 177 performances |
| 2001 | Ford Center For The Performing Arts Revival. September 24, 2001 · Brenda Braxton | 1 performances |
| 2017 | Transfer Theatre unknown. |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 16 albums held
Licensing 2 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
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52 passages naming Dreamgirls, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
Lone with Dreamgirls, Kiss of the Spider Woman, and Tommy Tune’s other visual extravaganza, Nine, Grand Hotel was one of the truly towering directorial achievements of the last twenty-five years. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p144
Backstage 1989’s Grand Hotel was the first American musical since 1983’s La Cage Aux Folles to run over 1,000 performances. like Dreamgirls. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p146
The flow and character detail in the stunning, cinematic opening sequence of his directorial masterpiece, Dreamgirls, shows a genius at the absolute top of his sometimes tortured powers, and his death while still at his peak is one of the great losses in the history of Broadway. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p279
His last successful show was Dreamgirls (1981). book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p65
Black Musical Theatre: From “Coontown” to “Dreamgirls.” book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p438
whose Dreamgirls was the final musical of 1981 book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p31
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