Dreamgirls

What's Dreamgirls Like?

With its R&B music and songs from the 1960’s, audiences love this show despite its weak story line. It is a classic jukebox musical, so what it lacks in a coherent story, it more than make up for with musical entertainment. Dreamgirls is about three black R&B singers in a fictional group The Dreamettes. The trio begin in the competitive world of show business as friends and improve their act with a few pitfalls and setbacks along the way.

Once they start getting some traction, they begin tinkering with the formula to get the perfect group, which leads to some professional jealousy and personal unkindness. As the newly named 'Dreams' go on to achieve international stardom and multiple pop hits, they unkindly leave one of their original members behind, which comes back to haunt them later in life.

The show takes on an overtly sickly-sweet and upbeat ending, but the true ending for so many music groups of this ilk is far less satisfying. It feels that the show writer just did not have the guts to put it in the harsh reality and audiences often come away feeling dissatisfied.

Is Dreamgirls Good for Kids?

This show is suitable for children over the age of 12, but contain many scenes of an adult nature including drugs, sex and violence.

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