Dreamgirls w. Leslie Gray Streeter and Lynne Streeter Childress

You Are Good

Sarah Marshall + Alex Steed

Film History, Film Reviews, Relationships, Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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In which Alex, Leslie and Lynne joyously unpack Dreamgirls. Find Leslie online: https://lesliegraystreeter.com/ (https://lesliegraystreeter.com/)Find Fine Beats & Cheeses here: https://finebeatsandcheeses.com/lynne-streeter-childress/ (https://finebeatsandcheeses.com/lynne-streeter-childress/)This episode was made possible by your support! Thanks to everybody who supports us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/youaregood) and Apple Plus.https://www.patreon.com/youaregood (https://www.patreon.com/youaregood)We LOVE Magpie Cinema Club! https://linktr.ee/magpiecinemaclub (https://linktr.ee/magpiecinemaclub)Alex’s zine (https://www.patreon.com/HighOcculture?utm_campaign=creatorshare_fan)!https://www.patreon.com/HighOcculture (https://www.patreon.com/HighOcculture)You can buy a You Are Good logo shirt (https://www.bonfire.com/you-are-good-shirts160/) DESIGNED BY THE GREAT LIZ CLIMO here. (Liz Climo designed our logo!)https://www.bonfire.com/you-are-good-shirts160/ (https://www.bonfire.com/you-are-good-shirts160/)You Are Good (https://www.podpage.com/you-are-good/) is a feelings podcast about movies.You can make a contribution to Palestine Children's Relief Fund here (https://www.pcrf.net/):https://www.pcrf.net/ (https://www.pcrf.net/)Miranda Zickler (https://linktr.ee/mirandatheswampmonster) produced and edited this episode:https://linktr.ee/mirandatheswampmonster (https://linktr.ee/mirandatheswampmonster)Fresh Lesh produces the beats for our episodes.

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0:00.0	Hello, you and welcome to You Are Good
0:12.3	of Feelings podcast about movies.
0:14.4	Today we're talking about Dreamgirls.
0:16.5	We're talking about it with Leslie Gray Streeter and Lynn Streeter Childress. I am one of your hosts,
0:24.0	Alex Steed, Sarah Marshall, is out today on assignment. You Are Good, a Feelings Podcasts about
0:30.5	Movies, is Feelings Podcasts about movies. Here's what that means. We are not film critics.
0:35.7	We're not here necessarily with a critical eye, though. Sometimes we do say some critical things. We are here film critics. We're not here necessarily with the critical either.
0:38.1	Sometimes we do say some critical things. We are here to say, here's what this movie is all about
0:43.1	to us. Here's what it makes us think about. Here's what it makes us feel. Here's how it makes us
0:48.7	consider what it's like to be a human being in the world today. Here's what it makes us think about with regard to what it was like to be a human being in the world today.
1:00.5	Here's what it makes us think about with regard to what it was like to be a human being in the world yesterday.
1:04.5	That's what we're doing here on You Are Good.
1:12.7	Dream Girls, for those of you who don't know, is a 2006 American musical drama film written and directed by Bill Condon,
1:17.6	and it's adapted from the 1981 Broadway musical of the same name.
1:22.6	Dreamgirls is a work of fiction taking strong inspiration from the history of the Motown record label and its Superstar Act, The Supremes.
1:27.2	The story follows the history and evolution of American R&B music during the 1960s and 70s
1:32.3	through the eyes of a Detroit girl group known as the Dreams and their manipulative record
1:36.9	executive.
1:38.3	So we have the Streeter Sisters with us today.
1:43.4	Lynn Streeter Childress is a playwright, an actor, a teaching artist, a singer, a director
1:49.3	and a co-host of the podcast, Fine Beats and Cheeses with her sister.
1:53.1	Leslie Gray's Streeter.
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