On Broadway, the musical adaptation is a bouncy crowd pleaser about female empowerment, self-acceptance and chasing one’s dreams.

Grammy-winning musician Joy Huerta and musical theater songwriter Benjamin Velez didn’t know each other before they started working together on the score for “Real Women Have Curves.” But they managed to write a Broadway musical together in record time.

The workers in the factory live in constant fear of raids and deportation, a threat that becomes all too real for seamstress Itzel, a Guatemalan refugee. The show astutely depicts the mixed emotions of grappling with obligations and expectations of one’s self,