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Motown: The Musical Cast Album Will Be Released in June

The cast, who live such low-pitched icons as Smokey Robinson and The Miracles, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, The Temptations, Michael Jackson and The Jackson Five, available a manuscript progressing in a week of Apr 22.  Tony Award hopeful Brandon Victor Dixon (The Color Purple, The...

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Motown diva Diana Ross schedules Detroit performance

Motown luminary Diana Ross has lined adult an insinuate homecoming show. The Detroit-born diva will play Aug. 25 during Sound Board in a MotorCity Casino Hotel — her initial uncover here given a Fox Theatre opening in 2010. Tickets are $65-$95 and go on sale to a ubiquitous open during 10 a.m. Friday by Ticketmaster. The...

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‘Motown: The Musical’ earns 2 Outer Critics Circle nominations

“Motown: The Musical” has warranted dual nominations in a 63rd annual Outer Critics Circle Awards, announced today. Valisia LeKae, whose flirty, mischievous depiction of Diana Ross stirred a genuine Ross to run adult onstage and cuddle her after a premiere performance, was nominated for Outstanding Actress in a...

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Theater: Motown: The Musical a Missed Opportunity

MOTOWN: THE MUSICAL ** out of ****LUNT FONTANNE THEATRE This low-pitched starts in a home of Motown owner Berry Gordy in Los Angeles in 1983. Gordy debates either or not to uncover adult for a taping of a TV special honoring a 25th anniversary of his iconic label. (As if.) We see Gordy grumbling in a unfair small...

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Star-Packed Red Carpet for Motown: The Musical

A partial of American song story strike Broadway on Sunday and BET.com had a front quarrel seat. We had a cameras during a red runner premiere of Motown: The Musical and held adult with Detroit legends like Gladys Knight, Diana Ross, Smokey Robinson and, of course, Berry Gordy.  “The songs were theatrical, they...