Overview

• Producers Sonia Friedman Productions, Sue Wagner, John Johnson, and LaChanze Productions are mounting the revival.
• Five-time Tony nominee Camille A. Brown will direct and choreograph what producers bill as the first newly directed and choreographed Broadway revival of the musical.
• Open calls seek “talented women of all shapes and sizes” in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Detroit, Miami, London, Toronto, Mexico City, Amsterdam, Rome, and Paris.
• The production retains Tom Eyen’s book and lyrics and Henry Krieger’s score, with principal casting, exact dates, and the theatre still to be announced.
• Dreamgirls premiered on Broadway in 1981, earned 13 Tony nominations and six wins, and later inspired the 2006 film that won Jennifer Hudson an Academy Award.