Dreamgirls
| Dreamgirls | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Bill Condon |
| Produced by | Laurence Mark |
| Written by | Tom Eyen (stage musical) Bill Condon (screenplay) |
| Starring | Jamie Foxx Beyoncé Knowles Eddie Murphy Jennifer Hudson Danny Glover Anika Noni Rose Keith Robinson |
| Music by | Henry Krieger Tom Eyen Siedah Garrett Scott Cutler Beyoncé Knowles Anne Preven Willie Reale Stephen Trask |
| Cinematography | Tobias A. Schliessler |
| Editing by | Virginia Katz |
| Distributed by |  DreamWorks SKG/ ParamountWorld Paramount/UIP  Warner Bros. |
| Release date(s) | December 15, 2006 January 18, 2007 February 2, 2007 |
| Running time | 131 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $75 million |
| Gross revenue | $154 million |
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Dreamgirls is a Broadway musical, which originally ran in New York City for over a thousand performances between December 20, 1981 and August 11, 1985. Set in the 1960s and 1970s and written for a mostly African American cast, Dreamgirls is about the story of a fictional all-female singing group called "The Dreams", who were loosely based upon Motown singers Diana Ross & The Supremes. The musical was written by Tom Eyen, who wrote the story, dialogue, and song lyrics, and Henry Krieger, who wrote the music. After it was no longer staged on Broadway, Dreamgirls continued to be performed by high schools, colleges, and community theater groups. The most famous song in the musical is "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going," which was recorded by Jennifer Holliday, who won a Tony Award for playing one of the main characters, Effie White.
Twenty-five years after Dreamgirls was first staged on Broadway, DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures made a movie version. Bill Condon wrote the script and directed it. The film version of Dreamgirls played for its first two weeks in limited reserved-seating screenings known as road shows. The film was released in theaters across the United States and Canada on December 25, 2006, and in countries across the rest of the world in January and February of 2007. Dreamgirls won three awards at the 64th Golden Globe Awards ceremony in 2007, including Best Picture - Musical or Comedy, and won two Oscars at the 79th Academy Awards.
[change] Cast
- Jamie Foxx as Curtis Taylor, Jr.
- Beyoncé Knowles as Deena Jones
- Eddie Murphy as James "Thunder" Early
- Danny Glover as Marty Madison
- Jennifer Hudson as Effie White
- Anika Noni Rose as Lorrell Robinson
- Keith Robinson as C.C. White
- Sharon Leal as Michelle Morris
- Hinton Battle as Wayne
