Dreamgirls (2006): 28 Weird Facts You Didn’t Never Knew

Dreamgirls (2006): 28 Weird Facts You Didn’t Never Knew The year is 1981. A show opens on Broadway and stops the entire city of New York in its tracks. Standing ovations, sold-out runs, Tony Awards, tears in the aisles. Hollywood wants it immediately. And then it disappears for 25 years. Three production attempts. Two dead collaborators. Nearly 800 auditions. A superstar who blew up her own Oscar campaign 16 days before the ceremony. And a real woman — the one the whole story is actually about — who died at 32, broke, forgotten, and never once got her ending. You think you know Dreamgirls. You don't. Not yet. Stay locked in, because by fact 28 you are going to have a question you cannot stop thinking about. These are 28 weird facts about Dreamgirls — and some of them have never been told properly until right now.