From KCRW in Santa Monica, this is The Treatment.

It's The Treatment.

I'm Elvis Mitchell.

I'd like to welcome our news station, WHQR 91.3 FM in Wilmington, North Carolina, and welcome the parents of my producer, Karen and Ward Holdridge.

Welcome to the show as well.

What's it like to take a musical that people love and find a way to actually bring the real strength of it to the screen?

Screenwriter Bill Condon did that with Chicago, and his newest

triumph along those lines is writing and directing the adaptation of Dream Girls. Bill, thanks so much

for coming back to the show. Great to be here. Can you explain what Dream Girls is about?

Sure. Basically, it's about character played by Jamie Fox, Curtis Taylor, Jr., who has a vision for

how to have black music crossover into a white audience

and controlling the means of production at the same time.

And his vehicle becomes this girl group called the Dremets that he transforms into the dreams

and they have this major success in the 1960s and then sort of backstage you know, backstage musical about what happens to each

of these characters as they pursue their dreams.

But definitely the story of the sound of young America, as you say, on Motown Records,

being from Detroit and actually haven't gone as a cute one, seven to a Mototown review.

I went because of Sergio Leone movies being shown with it, so I made my sisters take me

to go see it.

And you hadn't experiencing the Supreme's as a young man, too, didn't you?

Yeah, I remember the first time I started listening to the radio.

I was eight years old.

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