🌪Force of Nature, 1982: Seeing Jennifer Holliday and "Dreamgirls" on Broadway

In New York for a wedding, I spent an evening at the "the-uh-tah" to witness the emphatic birth of a once-in-a-generational talent. At just 21, this Houston homegirl tore the roof off the suckah!

Mom went one way; I went the other. We had travelled to Buffalo for my brother’s wedding; my new sister-in-law was from Buffalo, or as he used to say when introducing her pre-wedding, “Most of my fr…