jennifer holliday sang i'm telling you i'm not going in the film dreamgirls.
who sings i'm telling you i'm not going in the film dreamgirls?
jennifer holliday
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since the 1980s and 1990s, several different attempts have been made to produce a film adaptation of "dreamgirls", a broadway musical loosely based upon the story of the supremes and motown records, which won six tony awards in 1982. david geffen, the stage musical's co-financier, retained the film rights to "dreamgirls" and turned down many offers to adapt the story for the screen. he cited a need to preserve the integrity of "dreamgirls" stage director michael bennett's work after his death in 1987. that same year, geffen, who ran his warner bros.-associated geffen pictures film production company at the time, began talks with broadway lyricist and producer howard ashman to adapt it as a star vehicle for whitney houston, who was to portray deena. the production ran into problems when houston wanted to sing both deena and effie's songs (particularly "and i am telling you i'm not going"), and the film was eventually abandoned.
dreamgirls (film)