" 'Motown: The Musical' was loading into the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre this week, but there was one thing I couldn’t find amid the trucks, trolleys and crates: a script," writes Michael Riedel in the New York Post.
The $12 million musical has been in rehearsal for weeks — the first preview is March 11 — but a workable plot has yet to emerge.
How do I know this?I heard it through the grapevine!
The problem, sources say, is that Berry Gordy Jr. initially insisted on writing the script himself, with a bit of help from screenwriter David Goldsmith.
But because they had so much material to cover — Gordy’s life, the creation of Motown, its place in American popular culture — they quickly found themselves tangled up in that grapevine.
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