detroit Archives - Broadway Black https://www.broadwayblack.com/tag/detroit/ When Theatre Goes Dark Mon, 15 Jun 2015 18:34:46 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/www.broadwayblack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/cropped-Broadway-Gold-B-1.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 detroit Archives - Broadway Black https://www.broadwayblack.com/tag/detroit/ 32 32 26346292 Motown: The Musical Flash Mob On Virgin Air https://www.broadwayblack.com/motown-the-musical-flash-mob-on-virgin-air/ https://www.broadwayblack.com/motown-the-musical-flash-mob-on-virgin-air/#respond Mon, 15 Jun 2015 18:34:46 +0000 http://broadwayblack.com/?p=6936 The old fashioned days of air travel where you put on your nice clothes and are served edible food may be gone, but Richard Branson and Virgin Air want to at least give you a little in flight entertainment. On the flight from London Heathrow to Detroit Metropolitan Airport the cast of Motown: The Musical […]

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]]> The old fashioned days of air travel where you put on your nice clothes and are served edible food may be gone, but Richard Branson and Virgin Air want to at least give you a little in flight entertainment. On the flight from London Heathrow to Detroit Metropolitan Airport the cast of Motown: The Musical motown flightentertained with a medley of songs from the show.  The founder and CEO used this opportunity to give Hittsville, USA a little extra love with the new direct flight.  There is no better tribute to a place then to share the songs of its people with others. Onlookers pulled out phones and iPads to record the once in a lifetime entertainment.  Branson himself even joined the cast for one of their songs. That cast included Donald Webber Jr.. who is seen leading the first song, Get Ready!. As well as some other Broadway Black favorites: Syndee Winters, Rod Harrelson, Jawan Jackson, Patrice Covington, & more cast members from the National Tour and the Broadway run.

Motown: The Musical, Coming to a Stage Near You?

Motown: The Musical has been sweeping the country telling Berry Gordy’s stories of Motown. This also served as a great promotion for the musical which will be headed to London next year. Find out more on the snazzy London website for the musical. You can also see the show on tour across the U.S. right now. Find more information on seeing Motown:The Musical while it is on the national tour HERE.

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]]> https://www.broadwayblack.com/motown-the-musical-flash-mob-on-virgin-air/feed/ 0 6936 Motown: The Musical Coming to a Movie Theatre Near You? https://www.broadwayblack.com/motown-the-musical-movie/ https://www.broadwayblack.com/motown-the-musical-movie/#respond Tue, 02 Jun 2015 17:00:29 +0000 http://broadwayblack.com/?p=6385 Motown: The Musical hit the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre stage in April 2013 and did not close until January 2015 after a whopping 700+ performances of all the songs your mother taught you to love while cleaning the house on a Sunday afternoon. Berry Gordy created the book for this show based on his 1994 autobiography To Be Loved: […]

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]]> Motown: The Musical hit the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre stage in April 2013 and did not close until January 2015 after a whopping 700+ performances of all the songs your mother taught you to love while cleaning the house on a Sunday afternoon.

Berry Gordy created the book for this show based on his 1994 autobiography To Be Loved: The Music, the Magic, the Memories of Motown. The play follows Gordy’s life as he creates and runs Motown with an all-too-familiar cast of characters.  Major players in the musical are Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, Diana Ross, and Michael Jackson.

The show was nominated for four Tony awards: Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (Musical) (Valisia LeKae); Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role (Musical) (Charl Brown); Best Orchestrations (Ethan Popp and Bryan Crook); and Best Sound Design of a Musical (Peter Hylenski). Despite all of the rave reviews for this show it did not receive a nomination for Best Musical.

Rumors have bubbled up several times since this show hit stages that a film would be certain to come.  However, there has not seemed to be a solid answer from Gordy or a definitive timeline.

“Oh yeah, it’s always in the works — been in the works a long time with different people talking to us about it. But we’re just focusing on this right now. The movie will come when it comes.” says Gordy in an interview with The Detroit News this past October.

For now, you can get your Motown: The Musical fix with the national tour that started in April 2014. In addition, Motown is scheduled to return to Broadway in Summer 2016 and make it’s debut on The West End in February 2016. For more information on the show or how to get tickets visit Motownthemusical.com

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