Venue: Liverpool Empire Theatre
Where: Liverpool
Date Reviewed: 9 February 2010
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Dancing In The Streets is an ebullient celebration of the golden years of Motown, a genre that emerged in the early sixties, spearheaded by the now legendary, Berry Gordy in Detroit, Michigan.
Motown Records (also referred to as Hitsville), brought black music into white homes, and turned African American culture into a commoditised phenomenon that could be consumed by the masses – one which as this show proves, is still popular to this very day.
Directed by the Ivor Novello award-winning, Keith Strachan, Dancing In The Streets begins with an impromptu audience warm up from the evening’s compeer, a former soundman of the Hitsville era, who introduces the singers in a fragmented narrative, which sees the performers belting out such classics as, Smokey Robinson’s ‘Tracks of My Tears’, Marvin Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get it On’, and Motown’s first number one hit by The Marvelletes, ‘Please Mister Postman’.
What’s On Stage, 2010
Tags: Dancing In The Streets, Liverpool Empire Theatre, Motown, Whatsonstage