LSC Event Descriptions

March 16 & 18, 2007

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Rated PG-13
131 minutes

 Dreamgirls (2006)
March 16, 2007 at 7:00 and 10:00 pm in 26-100
March 18, 2007 at 7:00 pm in 26-100

In 1960s Detroit, a good night onstage can get you noticed but it won't get your song played on the radio. Here, a new kind of music is on the cusp of being born � a sound with roots buried deep in the soul of Detroit itself, where songs are about more than what's on the surface, and everyone is bound together by a shared dream.

Curtis Taylor, Jr. (Jamie Foxx) is a car salesman aching to make his mark in the music business � to form his own record label and get its sound heard on mainstream radio at a time when civil rights are still only a whisper in the streets. He just needs the angle, the right talent, the right product to sell.

Late for their stint in a local talent show, The Dreamettes � Deena Jones (Beyonc� Knowles), Lorrell Robinson (Anika Noni Rose), and lead singer Effie White (Jennifer Hudson) � show up in their cheap wigs and homemade dresses, rehearsing songs and steps by Effie's brother, C.C. (Keith Robinson), with hopes that talent and sheer desire will break them out of the only life that seems available to them.

They're young. They're beautiful. They're just what Curtis is looking for.

All they have to do is trust him.

James "Thunder" Early (Eddie Murphy) is a pioneer of the new Detroit sound, spellbinding audiences all along the "Chitlin' Circuit" with his electrifying blend of soul and rock 'n' roll. Curtis finesses The Dreamettes a gig singing backup for Early, and suddenly, for all of them, the gulf between what they want and what they can have draws closer for the first time. [www.rottentomatoes.com]

Joy is defined as Dreamgirls, an ecstatic dose of pure top-down Motown tight-harmony effervescence that takes a hit Broadway musical about a Chicago girl group and turns it, miraculously, into a Hollywood delight.
      -- Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle. Read this review.

2006 Academy Award Nominations: Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role, Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role (WIN!), Achievement in Art Direction, Achievement in Costume Design, Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song), Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song), Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song), Achievement in Sound Mixing (WIN!)

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