Dreamgirls 1981 (Manhattan User's Guide)

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Dreamgirls 1981 (Manhattan User's Guide)#1

Posted: 12/12/06 at 12:14pm

A friend of mine emailed me this this morning and I found it to be a nice, nostalgiac read.


Dreamgirls 1981
By Charlie Suisman

Soon after I started working as a production assistant on the Broadway production of Dreamgirls, I was hanging out in the green room with the chorus members. Since I was the new kid, and most of them had been working on workshops of the show for many months, I was keeping to myself.

But I was watching and listening. The actors seemed to me then, and still do now, a group of extraordinarily talented performers and extraordinarily lovely people. On this particular morning, they were talking about a fairly
obscure pop/soul song from the early 70s called "Right on the Tip of My Tongue" but they couldn't remember the group that had sung it. "Uh..." Heads turned toward me as I spoke up. "That was Brenda and the Tabulations."

Silence. They stared for a second. And then they all laughed. "Yes!" "That's it!" "Man, are you on the right show!" From that moment on they accepted me unconditionally, which was a relief because I had already fallen in love with them...




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Updated On: 12/12/06 at 12:14 PM

[Unknown User]

re: Dreamgirls 1981 (Manhattan User's Guide)#1

Posted: 12/12/06 at 2:58pm

Really nice! thanks for sharing!

[TheActr97J]

re: Dreamgirls 1981 (Manhattan User's Guide)#2

Posted: 12/12/06 at 3:46pm

Really cool article. I like the part where he describes the first time everyone heard Holliday sing "And I Am Telling You."

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