Summary: "We're getting the band back together." This week we continue our tour of musicals and music films with the hit movie Dreamgirls. Also discussed: fire ants, Diana Ross in Mahogany, and the book How To Do Nothing by Jenny Odell. Show notes: Jennifer Holliday "And I'm Telling You" 1982 Tony Awards (YouTube)

Mahogany (1975) | Romantic Drama Movie | Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams (YouTube)

The Real Dreamgirls - How Gils Groups Changed American Music (Smithsonian)

Recommendations:
Andrea W.: City of Ghosts (TV, Netflix)

Andrea G.: The Underground Railroad (TV, Amazon)

Lisa: How To Do Nothing by Jenny Odell (book)

Music credits:

   "Good Times" by Podington Bear

From Free Music Archive
CC BY 3.0 Theme song "Pyro Flow" by Kevin Macleod From Incompetch CC BY 3.0
Intro bed: "OLPC" by Marco Raaphorst Courtesy of Free Music Archive CC BY-SA 3.0 NL
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