When Langston Hughes wondered in 1951, "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? ... Or does it explode?," he could not have suspected that eight years later a Broadway play (and, after that, a film) named for the famous line, A Raisin in the Sun, would indeed explode. Lord only knows what his reaction would have been to a 2004 performance starring Sean "P. Diddy" Combs. Written by Lorraine Hansberry, the multigenerational story of the Younger family on Chicago's South Side was a huge—and groundbreaking—hit when it premiered in 1959, starring Sidney Poitier and Ruby Dee, and it won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for best play. The 1961 movie, starring Poitier again as the hard-striving patriarch, Walter Lee, remains a classic. But will the Younger family's struggles be relevant to a new generation? "There's absolutely nothing dated about this play," says director Kenny Leon, whose Broadway production, with Combs, Audra McDonald, Phylicia Rashad, and Sanaa Lathan, opens on April 26. "A strong, believable production helps remind us of the values at the heart of the American Dream, which I believe we're losing sight of. And—with the best possible cast I could assemble to tell this story—this play, more than any other, can cross lines and re-energize audiences, too." Sounds like a dream come true.