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Dreamgirls (musical)
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Cover for the second Playbill musical Dreamgirls. The artwork for the original Playbill was also used as the cover of the Dreamgirls Original Broadway Cast album.
Music Henry Krieger
Lyrics Tom Eyen
Book Tom Eyen
Basis The Supremes and the history of Motown and rhythm and blues music
Productions 1981 Broadway
1983 US Tour
1985 International Tour
1987 Broadway revival
1994 Atlanta, Georgia
1997 Chicago, Illinois
1997 US Tour
2001 Broadway concert
2002 Atlanta, Georgia
2006 Feature film
2007 Atlanta, Georgia
2009 US Tour
2012 St. Louis, MO
2013 Vancouver, BC
2016 West End
Awards 1982 Tony Award for Best Book

Dreamgirls is a Broadway musical, with music by Henry Krieger and lyrics and book by Tom Eyen. Based on the show business aspirations and successes of R&B acts such as The Supremes, The Shirelles, James Brown, Jackie Wilson, and others, the musical follows the story of a young female singing trio from Chicago, Illinois called "The Dreams", who become music superstars.

Staged with a mostly African-American cast and originally starring Jennifer Holliday, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Loretta Devine, Ben Harney, Cleavant Derricks, Vondie Curtis-Hall, and Obba Babatundé, the musical opened on December 20, 1981, at the Imperial Theatre on Broadway. The musical was then nominated for 13 Tony Awards, including the Tony Award for Best Musical, and won six. It was later adapted into a motion picture from DreamWorks and Paramount Pictures in 2006. The film starred Jamie Foxx, Beyoncé, Eddie Murphy, Jennifer Hudson, Danny Glover, Anika Noni Rose, and Keith Robinson.


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