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4 unusual facts about Dreamgirls


Diggin' on You

The song's instrumental can be heard in the 2006 film, Dreamgirls.

Dreamgirls: Original Broadway Cast Album

Also included is a bonus disc featuring instrumental mixes (prepared for personal appearances by the cast) and a dance version of the musicals signature number, "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going".

Feel My Soul

Feel My Soul followed Holliday's success in her role as Effie White in the original Broadway production of the musical Dreamgirls.

Yvette Cason

Yvette Cason is an American television, theatre, and film actress, and a former Miss Black America from Washington, D.C. She was an understudy for the character of Effie White in the original 1981 Broadway musical Dreamgirls.


Chaunteé Schuler

She has done many on-stage performances, in productions such as The Lion King, Everyday Rapture, Applause, The Producers, Party Come Here, Dreamgirls, Smoky Joe's Café, Once on This Island, Crumbs from the Table of Joy, and Xanadu.

Damon Intrabartolo

Intrabartolo also served as an orchestrator and conductor on In Good Company (2004), American Dreamz (2006) and the acclaimed "Dreamgirls" (2006) underscore with Hedwig and the Angry Inch composer Stephen Trask.

Emily Skinner

She has played leading roles in such Broadway productions as Side Show, James Joyce's The Dead, The Full Monty, Dinner at Eight, Billy Elliot, as well as the acclaimed Actor's Fund Broadway concerts of Dreamgirls and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.

Riverside, Texas

Two famous natives of Riverside are singer-actress Jennifer Holliday (born 1960), best known for her creation of the role of Effie in the successful Tony-award winning Broadway musical "Dreamgirls"; and Eugene C. Barker, Texas historian (born 1874).

Willie Reale

Mr. Reale has an Academy Award nomination in the best song category for his work as a lyricist on the movie Dreamgirls and has won 3 Emmy awards (in 2010, 2011) as one of the writer/producers behind the recent reinvention of 1970’s literacy classic, The Electric Company on PBS.


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