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...Jennifer Holliday has left the New York cast of Dreamgirls, then who is that large woman belting out one of her songs at Palsson's Supper Club on West 72nd Street? But wait a minute. The tune is the same, but the lyrics are just a little...
Hoffman thinks, too, that there is a lot of his late mother, who died a few months before filming began, in the nurturing side of Dorothy. Some of her ferocious integrity as an actress comes from a friend of Hoffman's, Actress Polly Holliday (Flo on TV's Alice until 1980). He had directed her in a Schisgal play, All over Town. When he and Pollack decided that Dorothy could have a Southern accent like Holliday's, Hoffman got in touch with her and she coached him. Says Hoffman: "It wasn't just the dialect...
...Holliday is more than a delight. She has devastating vocal firepower and a stage presence that could crumble reinforced concrete. While the show was out of town, she and Bennett got into an "I quit" - "You're fired" imbroglio that had her out of Dreamgirls until the pair made up. Near the end of Act I, Effie's lover (Ben Harney), who is the cynical manager of the trio, replaces her with a slim looker who possesses the svelte image he feels that the Dreams need to captivate white audiences. He has also taken a new bedmate. Partly...
...galvanic as Holliday is Cleavant Derricks as a slam-bang comic belter sadly beached by new musical tides. A superb choreographer, Bennett is surprisingly skimpy on dances. Only one number, Steppin ' to the Bad Side, fully displays his stylish percussive mastery. But then, the entire evening marches to his drumming beat...
...Heart. Three sisters, nurtured in Southern gothic grotesquerie, induce spasms of laughter in Beth Henley's Pulitzer-prizewinning drama. Dreamgirls. A pearl in the strand of notable U.S. musicals. There is dazzling elegance in Theoni V. Aldredge's costumes, and a young belter named Jennifer Holliday can start, stop and steal a show. (See above.) The Dresser. Paul Rogers plays a decrepit provincial Shakespearean actor-manager; Tom Courtenay, his valet. In double image, they are Lear and his Fool-and both are magnificent...