Robert Cornelius Looks at Dreamgirls

Feast of Fun: Gay Talk Show

Fausto Fernós

Comedy Interviews, Tv & Film, Comedy, Tv Reviews, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.4 • 831 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Dreamgirls, the Broadway musical based on the showbiz aspirations of legends like Little Richard, James Brown, Diana Ross and the Supremes, is about as perfect as a musical can be.

It lands running with a wonderful percussive bongo beat and takes us on a roller coaster ride through the struggles Black entertainers faced in the past and how they changed the world for the better.

The breakout song “And I’m Telling You I’m Not Going” became a #1 hit on the R&B Billboard charts when it was released in 1982 and launched Jennifer Holliday into superstardom.

Our friend musician and actor Robert Cornelius is now playing the role of music producer Marty in the new production of Dreamgirls at the McCarter Theater in Princeton, NJ.

BUY TICKETS: https://www.mccarter.org/

As the nephew of Soul Train producer and host Don Cornelius, Robert was a regular dancer in his teens on the show and subsequently became an indie music fixture as a member of the alt-pop music group Poi Dog Pondering.

Today musician Robert Cornelis joins us to look back on his amazing career, being part of Black music royalty and why Dreamgirls and Jennifer Holidays torch song “And I’m Telling You I’m Not Going” will never leave our hearts.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	AI might be the most important innovation ever. It's storming every industry with literally billions being invested, so buckle up.
0:07.9	The problem is that AI needs the right data and a lot of speed and processing power, so how do you compete without cost spiraling out of control?
0:15.7	Time to upgrade to the next generation of the cloud, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure or OCI.
0:21.4	OCI is a single platform for your infrastructure, database and application development, with AI
0:26.4	embedded across it all. And Oracle's offering cloud helps you address your requirements for location,
0:31.4	access and data residency. OCI provides blazing fast speeds for AI's demanding workloads,
0:37.3	and in the cloud when you pay by the minute, speed matters.
0:40.5	And of course, nobody does data better than Oracle.
0:43.9	If you want OCI to help you do more and spend less,
0:46.7	like Uber, the Premier League, and Oracle Red Bull Racing,
0:49.7	take a free test drive at oracle.com slash bandwidth.
0:52.9	That's oracle.com slash bandwidth. Oracle.com slash bandwidth. That's oracle.com slash bandwidth. Oracle.com
0:56.1	slash bandwidth. Dreamgirls, the Broadway musical based on the showbiz aspirations of
1:06.3	legends like Little Richard, James Brown, Diana Ross and the Supremes is about as perfect as a musical
1:13.2	can be. It lands running with a wonderful, percussive bongo beat and takes us on a roller
1:19.0	coaster ride through the struggles black entertainers faced in the past and how they changed
1:24.0	the world for the better. The breakout song, and I'm telling you, I'm not going,
1:29.9	became a number one hit on the R&B Billboard charts when it was released in 1982 and launched
1:36.2	Jennifer Holliday into superstardom. Our friend musician and actor Robert Cornelius is now
1:42.6	playing the role of music producer Marty
1:44.5	and the new production of Dream Girls at the MacArthur Theater in Princeton, New Jersey.
1:49.5	As the nephew of soul-trained producer and host Don Cornelius, Robert was a regular dancer
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Fausto Fernós, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Fausto Fernós and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.