Background
Dreamgirls had its beginnings as a project for Nell Carter. Playwright Tom Eyen and conductor Henry Krieger first worked together on the 1975 musical … See more

US tours
Bennett took Dreamgirls on an abbreviated national tour in 1983, with Jennifer Holliday remaining as Effie, with Larry Riley, Linda Leilani … See more

Notes
• "'Dreams' Medley" was the original Act II opening, a medley reprising the songs "Dreamgirls", "Move", "Love Love You Baby", "Family", "Heavy" and "Cadillac Car", performed by Deena Jones and the Dreams, as well as … See more

Act I: 1960s
In 1962, The Dreamettes, a hopeful teenage Black girl group from Chicago, enter the famous Amateur Night talent competition at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York ("I'm Looking for Something", "Goin' Downtown", … See more

David Geffen, founder of Geffen Records and one of the play's financiers, leased the Dreamgirls film rights to Warner Bros. in the 1980s through his Geffen Pictures company. Although the film was announced several times, with singers such as See more

From the show's opening, Michael Bennett, Henry Krieger, Tom Eyen, and the Dreamgirls producers publicly denied basing the musical's plot on the story of the Supremes. It is widely believed these public denials were made in order to avoid lawsuits from the … See more

• Dreamgirls: Original Broadway Cast Album
• Dreamgirls: Music from the Motion Picture
• Dreamgirl: My Life As a Supreme, the 1986 autobiography of former Supremes member Mary Wilson See more