Tony Award winner Jennifer Holliday recently joined The Jennifer Hudson Show and took a look back at the original 1981 Broadway production of Dreamgirls. Having originated the character of Effie White on Broadway, she told Hudson about her role in expanding the part during the musical's development. "We were working on [Dreamgirls]... and they had already started creating her character. But people don't know that Eff…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:24PM on September 24, 2025