No ifs about this Effie
Broadway producers have wasted no time in scooping up “American Idol” contestants. No sooner does each season end than the theater negotiations begin.
But N.C. Theatre producer William Jones is quicker. The day after LaKisha Jones sang “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going” from Broadway’s “Dreamgirls” on “Idol” last month, Jones says, he was on the phone putting in dibs for her to play Effie in “Dreamgirls” at N.C. Theatre.
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