Your Gonna Love Me

[Ready 2 Defy Gravity]

Posted: 6/12/06 at 9:16am

What show is that from, and who was the lady singing it, last nigth in the clip, cause she tore it up!!!

[ljay889]

Posted: 6/12/06 at 9:18am

Dreamgirls.

and it's You'RE

[OasisBroadway]

Posted: 6/12/06 at 9:19am

From Dreamgirls. Jennifer Holliday. The song is called "And I am Telling You I'm Not Going" And the line is YOU'RE gonna love me.

[Ready 2 Defy Gravity]

Posted: 6/12/06 at 9:40am

Is she the one on the obc recording?

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 6/12/06 at 9:41am

Yes

[fiesta1]

Posted: 6/12/06 at 9:45am

Check out the YubeTube recording of this performance. In 30 year of watching the Tony's, I think J. Holliday's performance of "And I'm Telling You" is the most breath-taking musical performance ever telecast.

Yes, I'm as big a show queen as Man in Chair.

[Ready 2 Defy Gravity]

Posted: 6/12/06 at 9:47am

thanks

[Ready 2 Defy Gravity]

Posted: 6/12/06 at 9:50am

In the dreamgirls concert who sings it on that cd?

[inlovewithjerryherman]

Posted: 6/12/06 at 9:59am

Lillias White.

[TonyInATL]

Posted: 6/12/06 at 10:12am

RE: original question...You have GOT to be kidding.
Updated On: 6/12/06 at 10:12 AM

[aspiringactress]

Posted: 6/12/06 at 10:14am

LIterally, from that 2 second clip I just looked at my mother and started crying.

[Ready 2 Defy Gravity]

Posted: 6/12/06 at 10:16am

yea that was powerful I got chills up my bones cause I've never heard the song before.

[EponineAmneris]

Posted: 6/13/06 at 4:15pm

Jennifer's performance on YOU'RE GONNA LOVE ME is one of the most incredible things in Broadway theatre history.

[freeadmission]

Posted: 6/13/06 at 4:19pm

Maybe I'm totally missing something, but my mouth dropped to the floor not in amazement at her vocal talent, but because of the crazy look on her face. I nearly laughed. Then, since everyone on here seems to love her so much, I watched the whole thing on youtube and I just don't get all the fuss. It was way over the top with spastic movements and it sounded more like screaming than singing to me. I just don't get it. Perhaps it's because I've never seen Dreamgirls before (and I don't really have an interest, other than the fact that everyone else loves it), but I'm just not seeing it.

[mathewbrock]

Posted: 6/14/06 at 12:24pm

Yeah, you need to see the whole show. Jennifer Holliday is WIDELY respected for her work in that role. To this day she is still asked to sing "AND I AM TELLING YOU I'M NOT GOING" for benefits, etc. Suspend your disbelief a little bit and get past the spastic arm movements and funny facial expressions. That's what theatre is all about - suspending your disbelief. This character has just had everything she's ever wanted taken away from her - who cares what she looks like?

[NYC4Life]

Posted: 6/14/06 at 12:41pm

"It was way over the top with spastic movements and it sounded more like screaming than singing to me. I just don't get it."

HAHA. It works for me. It is soooo raw and emotional. Her passion goes above and beyond. Lisen to the lyrics, she should somewhat sound like she is screaming. I am getting chills thinking about it. She really just gives it her all.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 6/14/06 at 12:41pm

It's even more than that. *SPOILER* Effie is told she's been cut from the group by the man she loves most in the world and she's pregnant with his child. He tells her not only that she's no longer with Dreamgirls, but that he's through with her as well. This song is her reaction to both situations and her expression comes from denial, desperation, shock and grief in the realization that she has lost everyone and everything in her left except her brother and her baby. In context of the show, her performance never seems over the top given the circumstances in the scene and given Effie's personality. I was supposed to see Jennifer Holliday perform Effie, but her mother passed away that weekend and I saw her understudy, Fuscia Walker, who received seven ovations throughout the course of the song and a standing ovation at the end of the number. I don't see how Jennifer could have possibly been any better. It was breathtaking.

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 6/14/06 at 12:47pm

Enough with the snarkiness. Geesh, it might have been the original post's first contact with Jennifer Holliday. Plus, she hasn't looked that way in a long time. It would be easy not to make the connection.

Then people are start snapping about the correct song title in CAPS and posting that the question is foolish. Let's just be glad someone knew discovered Jennifer and supprt that without the tude. Where's the love people? Remember, the only dumb question is the one not asked. None of us were born with our breadth of theatre knowledge-we learned it through exposure. Some of y'all need to take a chill pill.

[theatahguy]

Posted: 6/14/06 at 12:51pm

Go 'head on, Bettyboy! Preach it!


But back on topic, I was THRILLED to see that clip on the Tonys, and now that I know it's on YouTube in it's entirety, Imma watch it, like, NOW!

...but yeah, she did kinda have the crazy-face going on. God bless Jenn.

[LostLeander]

Posted: 6/14/06 at 12:52pm

She's (Ms. Holliday, that is) one of the only performers who I can simultaneously laugh at, AND be blown away. She is an absolutely astonishing performer and has the voice of a GOD. In her prime, at least.

She's a bit of a carcicature of herself, but I LOVE her. She needs to come back to Broadway.

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 6/14/06 at 12:54pm

Amen to that. Miss Jennifer needs a RETURN to Broadway. Soon. She is grand in every way. Ditto to what Leander said.

[theatahguy]

Posted: 6/14/06 at 12:57pm

I love watch THE LEADING LADIES DVD and her incredible performance, but have to fall over laughing watching her sing--the wild jaw thing (producing vibrato by moving her jaw, I guess), and when she does it, her tower of weave is just moving all over the place. Kills me every time. Those who have seen it can probably explain it better.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 6/14/06 at 1:52pm

Jennifer Holliday was never a good actress. Her gift was that she had the vocal talent to belt a song full volume to the back of the house. She provided a gospel-belt voice to Broadway.

It's a powerful role, and many actresses after Holliday have turned in excellent performances since hers. For example, Lillias White on the concert recording (although I personally don't like White's riffs).

[blueroses]

Posted: 6/23/06 at 9:53am

Thank you so much for the info about YouTube! I watched this last night.

Oh my Lord.

My jaw was hanging open and my eyes were brimming with tears. That was one of the MOST moving things I have ever seen! And I am usually NOT a fan of the divas, the excessive riffing (you get what I'm saying). But this was something else...the wailing came from the depths of her character's soul! I couldn't take my eyes off of her, and her powerful voice gave me chills, not an earache (as many of the melisma queens tend to do, who belt it to the rafters because they CAN rather than for emotional impact or to tell the story). Yeah, I get how people can be freaked out by the facial expressions, but here it all worked. Damn, I'm Jewish and this woman took me to church! I'd disagree about the actress part--at least in this role--I bought her story hook, line and sinker! I adore Jennifer Hudson, but she's got a lot to live up to. I can't wait for the movie.

And seeing a young Loretta Devine...that was a real treat, too (Effie, I'm TIRED)!
Updated On: 6/23/06 at 09:53 AM

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 6/23/06 at 9:55am

YOU'RE