Dreamgirls Pictorial Book

Hi everyone. I'm back from a breif vacation. Upon my return, I recieved an interesting package from Amazon.com. In it was the long awaited Dreamgirls Pictorial Book that I ordered back in December. It's nice. No screenplay, but some nice photos and essays. Martin Gottfried's introductory essay was quite interesting, though I find the information about Michael Bennett and Bernie Jacob's experiment with pot a little uncalled for. It had nothing to do with Dreamgirls. Mr. Gottfried does have the habit of overexposing his subjects as we can plainly see in his Bob Fosse biography, which is quite good actually. The costumes sketches and storyboards are beautiful. I feel the film deserved Oscars for both, but the accademy did not obviously. This book makes me quite exited for the DVD next month! I can't wait!

(And one more thing- I loved the snapshot of the Imperial marquee back on opening night in 1981. Looked like quite an event from the crowd outside.)

Anyone else have any opinions or links to threads about this already? I didn't bother searching, I'm tired. My flight was delayed.

Chicago took a long time too. That book, while having the screenplay, had two very bad production photographs of the original production. (Sadly, there aren't many good ones of the original) What's nice about this book is that there are quite a few as well as some behind the scene shots (Bennett at the press rehearsal, etc.) as well as the nice essay by Gottfried.

Just got my copy this week, too.

First, a rave: the book is beautiful and I can't wait to spend some time looking through it this weekend.

OK, now my rant: WHY was this so delayed? I'm not sure what's up with this publisher. It's the same one that did the CHICAGO book, which, as previously mentioned, was significantly delayed (but not as long as the DREAMGIRLS book). I'm generally not one to get snippy, but they need to get their act together. Two for two is not good. The hype and excitement around the movie has died down significantly in the intervening months, which can't help book sales.

I hope they're not doing the HAIRSPRAY book!

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No, sadly the screenplay is not in the book.

Beautiful book, great photos. A must-have for any Dreamgirls fan!