Bennett's next musical was a project about late-life romance called "Ballroom". Although financially unsuccessful, it garnered seven Tony Award nominations, and Bennett won one for Best Choreography. He admitted that any project that followed "A Chorus Line" was bound to be an anti-climax. Bennett had another hit in 1981 with "Dreamgirls", a backstage epic about a girl group like The Supremes and the expropriation of black music by a white recording industry. In the early 1980s, Bennett worked on various projects, one of which was titled "The Children's Crusade", based on a legendary story "Children's Crusade", but none of them reached the stage.