I was in New York last week, and decided I would go and see the motown musical, my 1st ever musical show. I didn't really know what to expect,but to be quite honest it was brilliant
I have always liked motown , but prefere the rarer unissued stuff as opposed to the commercial records that most people associate with motown .the two stand out artists for me were the Diana ross actress ,and the Michael Jackson actor (singer) who had everyone in the theatre standing to applaud him .he was special (Raymond luke ) and I ,m not really a Michael Jackson fan. Its the first time in a very long time that a few commercial motown songs have given me goose bumps , and even bought a slight tear to my eyes, so it must have been good . I went to see the jersey boys, the next night ,but felt that it didn't give me nowhere near the same sort of buzz. the Frankie valli actor was a good singer ,but couldn't reach a lot of the notes that he needed to ,to make it really good
I will post some images from the program when I get a minute
regards paul