Cinema Club Presents 

THE HISTORY BOYS

Monday, December 4, 2006 – 7pm
Landmark Century Theatres, 2828 N. Clark, Chicago

and

DREAMGIRLS

Thursday, December 7, 2006 – 7pm
Pipers Alley Theatre, 1608 N. Wells, Chicago

THE HISTORY BOYS

THE HISTORY BOYS tells the story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambridge. Bounced between their maverick English master (Richard Griffiths), a young and shrewd teacher hired to up their test scores (Stephen Campbell Moore), a grossly out-numbered history teacher (Frances de la Tour), and a headmaster obsessed with results (Clive Merrison), the boys attempt to sift through it all to pass the daunting university admissions process.. Their journey becomes as much about how education works, as it is about where education leads.
The big screen adaptation of the five time Tony award-winning play of the same name, THE HISTORY BOYS utilizes the same talent that originally brought the production to the stage.

As seating is on a first come, first served basis, your early arrival is suggested. No one will be admitted once theater capacity is reached.

TV Academy members will receive an email that will admit you and a guest.
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DREAMGIRLS

Twenty-five years after first bringing Broadway audiences to their feet, the Tony Award-winning musical sensation “Dreamgirls” comes to the big screen starring Academy Award® winner Jamie Foxx (“Ray”), Beyoncé Knowles (“Austin Powers in Goldmember”), Eddie Murphy (“The Nutty Professor,” “Dr. Dolittle”), Danny Glover (“Lethal Weapon”), Jennifer Hudson (“American Idol”), and Tony Award winner Anika Noni Rose (Broadway’s “Caroline or Change”). Set in the turbulent late 1960s and early ‘70s, “Dreamgirls” follows the rise of a trio of women—Effie, Deena (Beyoncé Knowles) and Lorrell (Anika Noni Rose)—who have formed a promising girl group called The Dreamettes. At a talent competition, they are discovered by an ambitious manager named Curtis Taylor, Jr. (Jamie Foxx), who offers them the opportunity of a lifetime: to become the back-up singers for headliner James “Thunder” Early (Eddie Murphy). Curtis gradually takes control of the girls’ look and sound, eventually giving them their own shot in the spotlight as The Dreams. That spotlight, however, begins to narrow in on Deena, finally pushing the less attractive Effie out altogether. Though the Dreams become a crossover phenomenon, they soon realize that the cost of fame and fortune may be higher than they ever imagined.
As seating is on a first come, first served basis, your early arrival is suggested. No one will be admitted once theater capacity is reached.

TV Academy members will receive an email that will admit you and a guest.