Overview
- Producers confirmed the revival is targeting a Broadway opening this fall, with the specific theater and timeline still to be announced.
- Camille A. Brown will direct and choreograph, marking the first Broadway revival of Dreamgirls to feature a new director-choreographer team.
- Hudson joins a producing lineup led by Sonia Friedman Productions with Sue Wagner and John Johnson attached.
- Casting has not been set as producers plan worldwide auditions seeking talented women of varied body types and backgrounds.
- The EGOT winner earned an Academy Award for playing Effie White in the 2006 film and now logs her third Broadway producing credit after A Strange Loop and Smash.