Henry Krieger News

According to NYTimes.com, the lineup for New York Stage and Film and Vassar College's 23rd Powerhouse summer theater season will include productions of John Patrick Shanley's Romantic Poetry: A Musical Play, featuring a score by Henry Krieger (Dreamgirls) and starring Mark Linn-Baker and Idina Menzel, Stephen Belber's (Match) new play, Geometry of Fire, and concert readings of Pete Towshend's new rock opera, The Boy Who Heard Music, and R-E-S-P-E-C-T, a musical featuring hit songs originally by Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, the Staple Singers, Wilson Pickett and more.

LAByrinth Theater Company announce dcasting today for Romantic Poetry: The Musicale, a special one-night-only event to benefit LAByrinth

The 21st Annual MAC Awards were presented at B.B. Kings Blues Club on May 1st.

Hats!, a new musical previously seen in Denver and New Orleans, opened at the Royal George Theatre in Chicago on April 29th for a run through June 10th.

According to the official website for the ABC show, 'Dancing with the Stars,' over fourteen members from the cast of the film adaptation of Dreamgirls will be performing on tonight's result show at 9pm.

Vocalists Scot Albertson, Mychelle Colleary, John DeMarco, Laurie Krauz, Ejaye Tracey, and Alysha Umphress will perform with the Barry Levitt Trio at Iridium Jazz Club, Wednesday, April 25 at 10PM. All slated performers are 2007 MAC Nominees for Jazz Vocalist.

The Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs will celebrate the 21st Annual MAC Awards on May 1, 2007 at B.B. King Blues Club in New York City.

Melissa Manchester, one of the composers involved in Hats!, will be featured as a star of the new musical's Chicago premiere.

Dreamgirls star Jennifer Hudson, who plays Effie Melody White in the hit film, has just been announced as the winner of the Best Supporting Actress Oscar

Dreamgirls' Michael Minkler, Bob Beemer and Willie Burton won the Best Sound Mixing Honor for Dreamgirls.

Jennifer Holliday will reprise her Tony Award-winning performance as Effie Melody White in Theater of the Star's upcoming production of Dreamgirls.

The hit film version of Dreamgirls has dropped out of the weekend box office top ten

The hit film version of Dreamgirls has remained in the weekend box office top ten, and will soon break the $100 million mark

According to Fox News, Dreamgirls stars Jennifer Hudson, Beyonce Knowles and Anika Noni Rose will perform 'Listen,' 'Love You I Do' and 'Patience' on the Academy Awards telecast on February 25th.

Bill Condon's celluloid reworking of Michael Bennett's 1982 Broadway musical 'Dreamgirls' finally hits UK screens this week. Having already achieved huge box-office success Stateside and steadily creating Oscar award buzz, expectations run high for this showbiz drama based loosely on the career of Diana Ross and the Supremes.

The soundtrack of the hit movie musical version of Dreamgirls continues its firm hold on the Billboard charts.

Golden Globe- and SAG Award-winner Jennifer Hudson will cap an upcoming performance at the Academy Awards with a trip to the recording studio for her debut solo album.

After spending its previous weeks of nationwide release among the top five in the weekend box office charts, Dreamgirls has dropped to the #6 spot.

The soundtrack of the hit movie musical version of Dreamgirls continues to place highly on the Billboard charts

With the upcoming film version of Dreamgirls gathering much critical and popular momentum, a new Broadway revival of the show is likely to follow.