Also credited on3 works
Dreamgirls
The Tap Dance Kid
Side Show
These come off the person record, which names a work and not a production. So we can say this name is attached to the work and we cannot say which staging, or in what capacity. For a composer or a writer that is the whole career we hold; there is no cast list to find them in.
In the literature8 passages
- Tom Eyen, lyricist, and Henry Krieger, composer, who had successes in The Tap Dance Kid and Dreamgirls work differently from Strouse and Adams. They don’t write the genesis of their songs apart and then complete them together; they start, and go through the whole process together. Krieger says:ebooks/Citron, Stephen/Musical From the Inside Out, The - Stephen Citron.txt
- Something similar takes place in Henry Krieger's 1981 Dreamgirls, which begins in the Fifties, when a song by a black group, "Cadillac Car," undergoes a comical transformation into a hit by a white bread group, along the way losing its rough edges and its drive.ebooks/Engel, Lehman/Words with Music_ Creating the Broadway Musical Libretto - Lehman Engel.txt
- However, Yeston’s victory over the Dreamgirls score—Henry Krieger’s music and Tom Eyen’s lyrics—was impressive. Not only was Dreamgirls’ score massive, offering virtual wall-to-wall music, but it also had a powerhouse hit single: Jennifer Holliday’s first-act ending aria “And I Am Telling You, I Am Not Going.” Much of the nation knew it.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
- Side Show (1997–1998) started off by having the Geek, the Reptile Man, the Bearded Lady, and their colleagues sing, “Come Look at the Freaks.” Henry Krieger’s eerie melody showed how inured these people were to their fates. Even the way that book writer/lyricist Bill Russell described them in his script was purposely dehumanizing: he call…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks - Peter Filichia.txt
- Henry Krieger of Dreamgirls fame wrote for another type of black family in The Tap Dance Kid ( 1983–1984). The Sheridans were almost upper-middle-class residents of Roosevelt Island, the two-mile strip of land that’s a tramway ride away from the big city.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks - Peter Filichia.txt
- Henry Krieger was the composer and, as many of you know, I'm obsessed with Dreamgirls . Here's some fun trivia. I had heard that the first song he and Tom Eyen wrote for that show was "One Night Only." They started talking about the show at a Manhattan diner and Henry wrote stuff down on a napkin. However , I was listening to a bootleg so…ebooks/Rudetsky, Seth/Seth's Broadway Diary, Volume 1_ Part 2 - Seth Rudetsky.txt
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