The Broadway hit comes to Dallas in 2016!
Following its hit run on Broadway in 2009, Dallas Theater Center present their full staging of lauded musical Dreamgirls, that first hit the Great White Way in 1981 and saw a film adaptation starring Beyonce and Jennifer Hudson, winning the latter an Academy Award. Follow the triumph and torment of show business is examined in this musical about a Supremes-like female singing group that fights its way to the top, losing its moral bearings in the process, then finding them again.
Hopeful talents soul Deena Jones, Lorrell Robinson and Effie White are performing as "The Dreamettes" when ambitious agent Curtis Taylor, Jr. discovers them. Landing them a job as backup singers for the soul and rock 'n' roll sensation James "Thunder" Early, he smartly begins to mould their rising career. However Deena and Effie come to blows when the former is lauded as the group's star for her beauty, rather than the full-voiced Effie, and the dream threatens to unravel as fast as it began.