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Dreamgirl Deferred: A Fictional Ballad of Florence Ballard
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Award Winning Playwright and Director Vincent Victoria offers a new play about the last days of original Supreme Florence Ballard. Set in Detroit in 1975 the play gives a fictionalized account of the final year of the troubled Motown singer who died in poverty in 1976 at the age of 32.
*****Disclaimer:The story of Florence Ballard and The Supremes is a real life fairy tale that happened in the 1960's and has been well documented in books and movies. The characters in this play are based on the many Public Domain facts and events told over the years about the real life people they are based on. This is a dramatic fiction and many theatrical liberties have been taken.As the the play takes place in the 1970's after Ballard left The Supremes none of Motown's music can and will be showcased.****