Get ready for what Berry Gordy has said is his last big creative push, "Motown: The Musical." It premieres this Sunday in New York, and critics will finally weigh in on how well his quintessentially Detroit rags-to-riches story translates into a Broadway musical.
The show has gone through a month of previews, tweaking and trimming numbers from its length (just under three hours), which features snippets of some 70 Motown hits.
The details of Gordy's story are familiar to Detroiters and Motown fans, especially those who've read his memoir "To Be Loved." Now that narrative, as Broadway lore, will truly become part of the cultural history of mainstream America.
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