[ Nonesuch / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Monday 15 April 2002
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In the 20 years since it opened on Broadway, DREAMGIRLS has acquired a mythic reputation few musicals achieve. With a vibrant score by Henry Krieger that captures the Motown sound of the 60's, coupled with a backstage story full of ebullience, sadness, and soul, and legendary staging and direction by Michael Bennett, it told the story of a singing group's rise from obscurity to pop stardom. The original cast album spawned the #1 R&B single, "And I'm Telling You I'm Not Going," (sung by Jennifer Holliday), a Grammy Award, won six 1982 Tonys, and played more than 1,500 performances. What made it great can be experienced COMPLETE for the first time in this 2 CD anniversary recording of a one-time only performance produced by The Actor's Studio and starring a host of today's most coveted Tony Award-winning talent: Heather Headley (Elton John/Tim Rice's AIDA) as Lorrell, Audra McDonald (three-time Tony winner and RAGTIME star)as Deena, Lillias White (THE LIFE) as Effie, plus Darius De Haas (as C.C. White), Norm Lewis (as Curtis Taylor, Jr.), Billy Porter (as James Thunder Early), James Stovall (as Marty), and Tamara Tunie (as Michelle Morris), plus Brian Stoke Mitchell (RAGTIME, KISS ME KATE) and others
Disc: 1
1 I'm Looking For Something, Baby
2 Goin' Downtown
3 Takin' The Long Way Home
4 Move (You're Steppin' On My Heart)
5 Scene: 'Fifty Bucks Says The Dreamettes Don't Win'
6 Fake Your Way To The Top
7 Scene: 'It Ain't Working, Marty'
8 Cadillac Car
9 Cadillac Car (On The Road)
10 Cadillac Car (Recording Studio)
11 Scene: 'I Don't Believe They Can Do That'
12 Steppin' To The Bad Side
13 Scene: 'I'm Working On A Long Shot'
14 Party, Party
15 I Want You, Baby
16 Scene: 'I'm A Woman Now'
17 Family
18 Scene: 'What Are You Doing To That Girl?'
19 Dreamgirls
20 Press Conference
21 Heavy
22 Walkin' Down The Strip/ Scene: Las Vegas
23 It's All Over
24 And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going
Disc: 2
1 Opening Act II: Dreams Medley
2 Scene: 'Effie White Is The Best Singer You're Gonna Find'
3 I Am Changing
4 Vogue Sequence
5 When I First Saw You
6 Ain't No Party
7 I Meant You No Harm
8 The Rap
9 I Miss You, Old Friend
10 One Night Only
11 One Night Only (Disco Version)
12 I'm Somebody
13 Hard To Say Good-Bye
14 Dreamgirls (Reprise)