I guess it's official - Knowles in Dreamgirls- Page 3

[keggss23]

Posted: 4/22/05 at 12:26pm

Saw this today:
http://movies.msn.com/beacon/editorial1.aspx?ptid=3467c683-ad4e-4a13-b83a-bca5b621759f>1=6428

[popcultureboy]

Posted: 4/22/05 at 12:31pm

The accompanying picture makes her look like a drag queen.

[DTBG2]

Posted: 4/22/05 at 12:33pm

Beyonce is a man....yeah, that's right..i said it!

-pffff, i am sucha hater.

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 4/22/05 at 12:37pm

Beyonce was supposedly passed over for Joanne in the film of RENT because of her lack of acting skills in her screentest.

She is better suited for Deena, however, so maybe she'll take a few Meisner classes before they start filming. I trust Bill Condon as a director.

[wildcat]

Posted: 4/22/05 at 12:46pm

Destiny's Child are here in Australia at the moment and Beyonce is giving interviews saying that she will be playing "the Diana Ross part" in the DREAMGIRLS movie.

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 4/22/05 at 1:11pm

DREAMGIRLS is one of the few musicals I know little about.

How much is the show a "thinly veiled" look at the Supremes.

I know the early workshops of the show had absolutely nothing to do with anything resembling the nightmare that is Diana Ross.

[WISHIHADATONY]

Posted: 4/22/05 at 1:27pm

DREAMGIRLS has some to do with the thinly veiled "Supremes," but that is not its primary focus. It is first and foremost a "backstage story." It is also a story of "love" backstage, family, changing time and racial modes, etc...........
The original production was very much a celebration of Michael Bennett's genius and every drop of theater razzle dazzle that had been invented up to that point and some that was invented for DREAMGIRLS. You can certainly know "absolutely nothing" about the SUPREMES and think DREAMGIRLS is the best musical you will ever see in your life.
Having read a couple of books about Diana Ross and Mary Wilson's book, I would say there are reflections or inspirations of the SUPREMES in DREAMGIRLS, but DREAMGIRLS certainly does NOT represent an actual story of the SUPREMES or any actual events in their lives. Of course, DREAMGIRLS is centered around a group of black female singers and begins in the early 1960s--So of course there are going to be parallels drawn to the SUPREMES--I think simply because the SUPREMES was the most famous and enduring of the "black girl groups" of that time.
I think DREAMGIRLS is one of the greatest musicals we have ever had.

[silent]

Posted: 4/22/05 at 2:00pm

Some of their suggested picks for the movie are ridiculous. Mya? Fantasia? Rosario Dawson? Brandy?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

I sincerely hope Deborah Cox at least auditions for the part of Lorell Robinson (even though she would have been better as Deena).

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 4/22/05 at 2:25pm

"DREAMGIRLS is one of the few musicals I know little about."

Wait. You named yourself Michael Bennett, but you aren't familiar with his masterpiece?

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 4/22/05 at 2:52pm

Well "Margo Channing" was already taken!

[LostLeander]

Posted: 4/22/05 at 2:52pm

In that msn.com article, it says that Lorrel doesn't have any big numbers.
What?
Ain't No Party?
Like that's not a huge song? It's one of my favorite songs in the score!

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 4/22/05 at 2:56pm

Well I know DREAMGIRLS isn't going to be all sung on film - as the stage production. Also, new songs are being written, so I imagine we will eventually have thirty threads complaining about the rewriting of the musical for the big screen.

[sweetiedarlinmia]

Posted: 4/22/05 at 3:39pm

Not one of those people they suggested for Effie can do that part. They need to stop playing around and just give Jennifer Hudson that role! Damn! And that comment about Lorell... seems like the person who wrote this isn't as familiar with the show as he presents himself to be. I am really worried about the fate of this stage to film adaptation. Not so pleased about the possibility of Eddie and Usher. Can live with Beyonce. *sigh* my heart hurts.

[DAME]

Posted: 4/22/05 at 4:13pm

I just want to say that despite all the rumors; Beyonces name was not on the dotted line till yesterday. Also Don Cheadel is testing for one role this coming week.

And that is all I am going to say.

[TonyaFanatic]

Posted: 4/23/05 at 1:12am

DAME, you know just as much as the rest of us: NOTHING. you are not in the room with the producers when negotiations are going on or on conference call. please dont act as if you have some kind of leg up on this.

[Thetruth]

Posted: 4/23/05 at 2:08am

Christina Milian must have a helluva agent, because people act like she actually has acting talent. Her or Mya would be good for Michelle, since they both are poor man's Beyonces anyway, but they could not play Lorell.

I don't really want Don C. He's not good in domineering roles. They need to let Norm Lewis get looooooose with this part!


And if Fantasia isn't Lorell. I'll actually cry.

[Marquise]

Posted: 4/23/05 at 2:34am

:: walks in with a fat @ss grin on his face ::


I TOLD YOU SO!!!!


BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAAAHAAAAAAAHAAAHAAAA!!!!!!!

Updated On: 4/23/05 at 02:34 AM

[Thetruth]

Posted: 4/23/05 at 3:07am

Hehehehe, Marquise. You know I need to jump on the bandwagon too. I'll be a Beyonce "Stan" but I'll be a correct one.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 4/23/05 at 12:58pm

And how can the article NOT mention Loretta Divine?

She's still working (and a heck of a lot more than SLR)

[TonyaFanatic]

Posted: 4/23/05 at 2:23pm

^^^^^^SO TRUE!!!

[Thetruth]

Posted: 4/23/05 at 11:37pm

She needs to come back to bway.

[dreamboy2004]

Posted: 4/24/05 at 3:00am

Let me just say that I'm a huge Beyonce fan, but I didn't really want her to play Deena. Mostly due to the fact I felt her voice was too soulful and powerful. I really felt Kelly Rowland of Destiny's Child would have been more suited for the part of Deena. But since she's got the role I think she could pull it off.I'm really interested in how the character Deena is portrayed because she's my favorite character.I do see some resemblence between Deena and Diana Ross,whom I am also a big fan off. I really want to see how Beyonce pulls off this role.Just think about it, first and foremost she will have to change her singing style. Secondly she will have to change her look. The Dreams look was very inspired by The Supremes meaning that they wore short black bob haircuts and all of you all who have seen any production of dreamgirls knows this is true. That means Beyonce will have to get rid of her long infamous blonde hair. Also many have said that Dreamgirls is a thin vield Supremes story. Yes there are some bits and pieces of The Supremes but it is not their story. When Dreamgirls first premired on broadway it was promoted as being losley based on the Supremes. Mary Wilson saw so much of The Supremes in the Dreams she named her book after the musical.Now many have said Diana Ross didn't like the show because she felt the musical gave her a bad name.But this too is not true, she just didn't like it being called The Supremes story because it's not.

[silent]

Posted: 4/24/05 at 3:30am

"Christina Milian must have a helluva agent, because people act like she actually has acting talent."

Those same people seem to think that Beyonce has acting talent as well. The only good thing she's at is fooling people into thinking she's some saint.

As for the "I told you so," please! It was a predictable move on the part of the producers not to audition anyone else for Deena. How she does on-screen will be another story. Just wait until Bill Condon sees how much of an "actress" she really is.

[BelleHarper]

Posted: 4/24/05 at 3:56am

Well, this is interesting. I shudder when recalling her performances at the Academy Awards this year.

[Marquise]

Posted: 4/24/05 at 5:02am

The naysayers will be silenced when the movie is released is a HUGE HIT and the soundtrack makes it's way to the top of the charts. MARK MY WORDS this film is going to be extraordinary and well worth the wait. I'm so glad it's under Bill Condon's care.

This all reminds me of the debacle I read about when Diana Ross was cast as Billie Holliday in "Lady Sings The Blues". She had just left The Supremes two years prior and everyone was doubting that "the princess of plastic pop" could ever pull of the grit and guts needed to play the part of Billie Holliday let alone sing it. Well she silenced EVERYONE and WALKED AWAY WITH AN ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATION FOR HER PERFORMANCE and the soundtrack went on to become one of the best selling albums of her career. Give Beyoncé a chance, she hasn't found the right vehicle for her talents but I think in "Dreamgirls" she has found the part that will prove all her naysayers WRONG.

Updated On: 4/24/05 at 05:02 AM