Berry Gordy's whirlwind chronicle of the barrier-breaking Detroit music empire that spawned Diana Ross, Michael Jackson and countless other greats opens on Broadway with massive advance box office ...
The story of Berry Gordy and his iconic Detroit record label returns to Broadway in this jukebox musical showcasing dozens of Motown classics. By Frank Scheck Motown: The Musical seems as unstoppable ...
Bottom line: Get ready, ‘cause here it comes. Who’s the most important record producer in American history? Well, A-B-C. That’s as easy as 1-2-3. His name was Berry Gordy Jr. His label was Motown. And ...
Ok, I’m not a theater critic. Full disclosure. So maybe consider this like a Yelp review for a touring Broadway musical. But I did go see “Motown: The Musical” last night, whose limited run we’ve ...
It’d be reasonable to assume that there was nothing more to give, that every tape vault everywhere had already been scoured. The download-only tracks which appeared last decade under the banner ...
In his 1995 autobiography, pop music impresario Berry Gordy spends 500 pages recounting the 30-year history of Motown Records. In the recent Broadway hit “Motown: the Musical,” playing at the Saenger ...
The latest Grammys/Ken Ehrlich tribute special —The Beatles, Bee Gees, Stevie Wonder and Frank Sinatra were covered in previous editions — went deeper than those other specials in providing historical ...