Dreamgirls

Dreamgirls
Cover for the second Playbill for Dreamgirls
Music	Henry Krieger
Lyrics	Tom Eyen
Book	Tom Eyen
Productions	1981 Broadway 1983 US tour 1985 International tour 1987 Broadway revival 1997 US tour 2001 Broadway concert 2009 US tour 2016 West End 2022 UK tour
Awards	Tony Award for Best Book Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical

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 Shirelles, James Brown, Jackie Wilson, and others, but closely follows the story of 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. ^[1]

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.