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Jennifer Holiday with the vocals and the acting. Her delivery made you feel the emotion.

THIS VERSION IS LIFE CHANGING

She was 21 years old doing this....Amazing

I will never forget my high school music teacher's sharing her experience seeing the original Dreamgirls show three times... She described Jennifer Holiday's performance like a Tsunami and a boeing 747 rolling down the theater and rocking your soul to the core. She said her voice was so strong and powerful, the whole theater shook and it was as if she was flooding life and unbearable emotion and power into her soul simultaneously.... As all of this aforementioned is happening - she said that there were children and adults hysterically clapping, fainting, crying and jumping up and down like they were at a rock concert. She describes it as the most powerful live performance she has ever seen -- mind you, this is coming from a woman who's been around and worked with some steller musicians and singers.

She did this night after night after night. It’s insane. It’s obviously hard work and talent, but there is something superhuman about doing this even once, let alone dozens, hundreds of times.

Jennifer says she performed for the person in the back row.

Thank you for showing Jennifer Holliday some love. The song was written specifically for Jennifer. The creator's of Dreamgirls wrote that song during the workshops. I was lucky enough to be an usher, when Jennifer starred in Dreamgirls. Night after night she brought audiences to their feet. You should have heard Jennifer the night Aretha attended the show.

When I was a kid. I moved to NYC and spent my last $40.00 on a ticket to DREAMGIRLS 1st Preview on Broadway. We lost it on this song. I wept and screamed for her at the same time. It was intermission after this and all was so stunned. Amazing memory and amazing performance.

Jennifer Holiday’s version is untouched, although Jennifer Hudson did a nice remake tho

The original no one can match her stage presence and vocals

I'm agnostic and just got taken to church. This woman is beyond compare!

Bro she sang like that for multiple show on 1 night, multiple nights of the week

It was made for her. That song and I am changing were not in the show before Jennifer Holliday. When she says she created the role she means it. Effie was not in act 2 when it was in pre production

Obba Babatunde plays CC White. He is very recognizable actor. I remember him from Half and Half, the movie Life, Netflix Dear White People, and the movie The Temptations.

Yes! This is one of those special songs where you remember exactly where you were when you first heard it...!!! ... That's exactly how it was for me... & to this day, it's still one of the best performances I've ever heard...!!! She literally set the bar at a new height with this one...!!! ... Love your reaction/review vid... I just became your newest Subscriber...!!! 👍🏽 👍🏽 👍🏽

The song was made for her voice. It was Jennifer Michael Bennett, Henry Krieger, and Tom Eyen who all worked together putting this song together, way back when the show wasnt on broadway and wasn't known really, when it was just what u can call a side show that popped up from time to time in different areas. Jennifer had a lot to to with the changing of the show for in the beginnings of this show, before broadway after she would perform this song then her character was over and she was supposed to had died from an overdose, close to what happened to Florence Ballard of the Supremes.

She was 19 years old when she did this... she said she wasn't in love but she took her Mom love for her Dad and took it home

I'm glad some of you are going back and seeing some of The originators because some of you were not bowling and you think that it was something new it was not. When this song played on the radio and it was a 45 record. Everybody stopped and listen.

Imagine doing this eight performances a week

So great to see someone watch this who is such a fan

Perfection

What a great reaction!😊 It was great to hear the original- I forgot how strong her voice is!!! Whitney does a rendition of this that is really good too!!

Chills!!!

Just discovered your channel 😊. FINALLY & I mean FINALLY somebody's reacted to the request I've posted on channels for years. Unfortunately none of them reacted to it 😔. THANK YOU so much for this!!! Haven't pressed play yet & already know your reaction will be 🔥. This is literally the best live vocal performance ever recorded. LITERALLY 🤷🏾‍♀️. You probably can tell I'm a little excited about this reaction 👀🤣.

Sing it girl!!

There is the bootlegiest of bootleg video recordings of a complete performance of the original Broadway cast production here on the KZfaqs. When I tell you that show is THE SINGLE GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT OF MANKIND, I am not overexaggerating.

The duplicate is never better than the original, but Jennifer Hudson “bodied” her cover. Nice reaction.

Shoutout to the Waves poster. One of the best movies of the decade.

In the context of the play, she gonna lose that baby singing that hard. lol. AMAZING

She actually work shopped this, so the song was tweaked and made for her, with her input. They actually fired her because they wanted her character to die after act one (kind of like Florence Ballard of The Supremes). The plays director, who she said she had it out with, was Michael Bennett, who, at the time, was one on Broadway's most powerful director's after doing A Chorus Line. He disagreed and wanted her character to die. They had it out and and Miss Holliday said she walked. He said he fired her. Whatever went down, she couldn't be replaced and they called and asked her back. The rest is history. This was only her 2nd show. She was discovered in the church by someone in a Broadway show and asked to come to Broadway for "Your Arms Too Short to Box with God". After this, she got Dreamgirls. I met her once and spent about 10 minutes backstage talking with her. She is a humble, sweet and very down to earth person. Thank you for reacting to this. I love seeing people's reaction to her after hearing her for the first time. It's exactly the way I felt. Check out her version of the Barbra Streisand hit "The Way He Makes Me Feel" at the Oscars. She was specifically asked, by Streisand herself, to sing for her (The song from the movie "Yentl" was nominated for an academy award and Streisand at the time had incredible stage fright and wouldn't sing live). She, of course, killed it.

Great reaction

The definitive version of this song. No version comes close. Her performance is organic. A masterclass in how to sell out emotionally with your vocals and interpret the lyric while still retaining stage and situational awareness.

You...didn't....you actually reacted...oh lawd, let me watch this. Edit - Thanks for reacting to my request. This version is just untouched. To think she almost wasn't in this play until they heard those pipes and wrote more of her in. No version of this song will ever top this. Thanks and congrats on 500!

maybe compare Jennifer Hudson to this version. She moved me so much but then it was the first time I heard the song.

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can you react to diana Ross's all for one at caesar's palace or home live at japan. she's an underrated vocal legend.

4:01 You're right, Jimmy was not in this scene in the film version. Bill Condon (the director/writer) cut his character out of most of the numbers from Act one, partly for storyline re-write purposes but mostly because, well let's face it Eddie Murphy can sing, but he can't SANG...nor is he a dancer! And the vocal range required for those songs were out of his ability. You really should see the Broadway version. There's several bootlegs floating around. As much as you may like the movie, NOTHING beats the original. #Dreamgirls is my all time favorite musical & I've seen so many productions over the years, but the OBC is by far the best! If you care to see/hear more check out my fanpage on Instagram: instagram.com/colby_carrington_devereaux/ 👍🏿

Please review gospel singers-CeCe Winans, Shirley Ceaser, Mahalia Jackson, etc...

Can you react to Jessica Sandchez ft Jennifer holiday on American idol sing it please

React to Jennifer Hudson