Just home from seeing Motown... The story of Gordy Berry who started Motown label so full of wonderful songs from the 4 Tops through Donna Ross and The Supremes and the Beginning of the Jackson 5 and into the 80s and Stevie Wonder and the likes... The first half was ok - maybe the sound was a bit muffled but the second half was a knock out... A 10 year old kid playing a young Michael Jackson was magical on stage and the later Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross songs were brilliant... I had hoped to have a greater buzz from the Marvin Gayes but... Anyhow matinee in the early days of a show on Broadway was an eye opener in its own right - I was about the youngest in the audience we had to line up down 46th street to get in, a few people were having trouble getting to their seats. But man the audience ROCKED IT (and man could they move at interval to get to the loo in the midst of a 3 hour show!)... Great afternoon!
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/motown-musical-cast-preview-ready-dancing-streets-performance-18879821
Expecting soundtrack purchase
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