Dreamgirls

Dreamgirls

And we are telling you... the next episode of IN THE SPOTLIGHT is about DREAMGIRLS! The 1981 backstage musical that profiled a (quasi) fictional girl group called the Dreams as they shoot to stardom was a hit then, and it has only grown more beloved. We'l
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DREAMGIRLS Book & Lyrics by Tom Eyen |
Music by Henry Kieger | Original Broadway Production Directed
& Choreographed by Michael Bennett | Orchestrations by Harold
Wheeler | Produced on Broadway by Michael Bennett, Robert Avian,
Geffen Records and The Shubert Organization


Episode Segments:


2:06 - Speed Test 

5:18 - Why God Why

10:10 - Back to Before

30:26 - What's Inside 

47:56 - How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?

1:05:28 - Our Favorite Things

1:12:34 - Corner of the Sky 

1:17:12 – What Comes Next?



Works Consulted:


Dreamgirls (Original Libretto) by Tom Eyen & Henry Kriger

Dreamgirls (2006 Film) Directed by Bill Condon, Screenplay by
Bill Condon, Produced by Laurence Mark

Dreamgirls (2001 Actors Fund Concert Recording) Executive
Produced by Catherine Cooke | Artistic Producing / Musical
Direction by Seth Rudetsky

Razzle Dazzle by Michael Riedel

One Singular Sensation: The Michael Bennett Story by Kevin
Kelly

A Chorus Line and the Musicals of Michael Bennett by Ken
Mandelbaum



Music Credits:


"Overture" from Dear World (Original Broadway Cast
Recording)  | Music by Jerry Herman | Performed by Dear
World Orchestra & Donald Pippin

"The Speed Test" from Thoroughly Modern Millie
 (Original Broadway Cast Recording) | Music by
Jeanine Tesori, Lyrics by Dick Scanlan | Performed by Marc
Kudisch, Sutton Foster, Anne L. Nathan & Ensemble

"Why God Why" from Miss Saigon: The Definitive Live
Recording  (Original Cast Recording  /
Deluxe)  | Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, Lyrics by
Alain Boublil & Richard Maltby Jr.  | Performed by
Alistair Brammer 

"Back to Before" from Ragtime: The Musical (Original
Broadway Cast Recording)  | Music by Stephen Flaherty,
Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens | Performed by Marin Mazzie

"What's Inside" from Waitress (Original Broadway Cast
Recording)  | Music & Lyrics by Sara Bareilles |
Performed by Jessie Mueller & Ensemble

"Ain’t No Party” from Dreamgirls (Original Broadway Cast
Recording) | Music by Henry Kreiger, Lyrics by Tom Eyen |
Performed by Loretta Devine

"Maria" from The Sound of Music (Original Soundtrack
Recording)  | Music by Richard Rodgers, Lyrics by Oscar
Hammerstein II | Performed by Evadne Baker, Anna Lee, Portia
Nelson, Marni Nixon

"My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music (Original
Soundtrack Recording) | Music by Richard Rodgers, Lyrics
by Oscar Hammerstein II | Performed by Julie Andrews

"Corner of the Sky" from Pippin (New Broadway Cast
Recording) | Music & Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz |
Performed by Matthew James Thomas

“What Comes Next?” from Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast
Recording) | Music & Lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda |
Performed by Jonathan Groff

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