Hot ‘Motown’ Bows to Berry Gordy; ‘The Call’: NYC Theater
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For sheer opening-number verve, it’s hard to beat an old-fashioned battle of the bands when the bands are the Temptations and the Four Tops.
An excellent simulacrum of such a showdown kicks off “Motown: The Musical,” maybe the best bad musical ever. The groups are in Pasadena, California, rehearsing for a televised celebration of Motown Records’s 25th anniversary.