I know most of us are not the diehards ‘oh yes!’ sort, on Hollywood musicals. But every once-in-not-so-many years Hollywood produces a musical block buster. Dream Girls (2006) is one spectacular movie musical experience!

Based on long running hit Broadway musical with the same name, the movie is a love triangle of two females singers played by Jennifer Hudson and Beyonce and a male singer / producer  Jammei Fox. It is a story of this trio of black female soul singers who crossover to the pop charts in the early 1960’s. The movie is all about the struggle for success, quest for love and then the eventual fall from grace.

When I watched this movie on my 40-inch TV screen at home, I was so blown away by the sound tracks, the songs and the overall handling of the screenplay. I was so blown away from it all that I watched the film twice in one sitting, and at the end ended up watching the songs two more times.

Beyonce proves that she is as versatile a singer, as she’s a great music mind. And, above all, she is a scintillating Hollywood presence.

The movie was huge in the year it was released, and won several Golden Globe and Oscar nominations and awards, including the best character actress Oscar, and GG awards for American Idol Sensation, Jennifer Hudson who played the main role along with Beyonce. Of course, Eddie Murphy who played the role of his life-time got an Oscar nod as well.

Listen to this great treatment of a two versions of the same song “One Night Only”. The slow version by Jen Hudson is a masterpiece for she is a range vocalist at her best. The pop version is done by Beyonce.  The two versions of the song are exactly done like an Indian movie sequence.  Slow melodramatic version and fast go-easy pop – both situations that contrast and climax.

First the Jennifer Hudson version.

Now see Beyonce rocking in the pop version..

The version of this song filmed on Beyonce in the movie is even a faster tempo, pure disco number. I am attaching a youtube loaded version of the same. Turn on the volume high on your laptops.

Enjoy this high note of the pop!

Movie lives up to the tag line – “Fame Comes and Goes, Stars Rise and Fall, But Dreams Live”