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GIRLS GOTTA DREAM!
In the audience on opening night, neophyte movie director Bill Condon was blown away by the staging and the message of Dreamgirls, Michael Bennett's 1981 musical, based on the story of the Supremes. A quarter-century later, Condon has made his film version of the Broadway hit, starring Eddie Murphy, Jamie Foxx, and Beyoncé Knowles. PETER BISKIND follows the action, from Condon's pivotal meeting with mogul David Geffen to Knowles's nerve-racking audition, to the last-minute casting of a newcomer in the linchpin role
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GIRLS GOTTA DREAM!
In the audience on opening night, neophyte movie director Bill Condon was blown away by the staging and the message of Dreamgirls, Michael Bennett's 1981 musical, based on the story of the Supremes. A quarter-century later, Condon has made his film version of the Broadway hit, starring Eddie Murphy, Jamie Foxx, and Beyoncé Knowles. PETER BISKIND follows the action, from Condon's pivotal meeting with mogul David Geffen to Knowles's nerve-racking audition, to the last-minute casting of a newcomer in the linchpin role
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