Gary Kupper's masterful skill at songwriting and stage performance is a uniquely fun experience. I know, I've been on stage with him and many of those wonderful acts, the Drifters, Crystals, Bo Diddley, Marvelettes and more. I'm a Detroit kid, but who doesn't tap into that Motown feelin' right?
This music is so worth getting its shot on the Great White Way.. seems like ironic kismet to me. Three cheers on this fine work of Americana. -Merrill Productions
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One of the oddest-sounding things about this show is the presence of Little Richard in the afterlife. The last time I checked, he was still in this one.
The photography in this article is absolutely incredible!
With a sense that New York may not see this one, I so want to get to Pittsfield for this - but the consideration so much depends on whether I can also get "Raisin in the Sun" for the same trip. (The morning bus schedules for matinees are uncooperative, and almost demand an overnight stay, as if the bus companies don't follow that theater is a necessity not a luxury). I'm thinking "Raisin in the Sun" is a shoo-in to get to New York, but you never know: I was betting that minority-inclusive "Music Man" from Toronto would find its way closer to NYC and gave away my ticket when I realize transportation was five times my ticket price, but never saw the Hugh Jackman-Sutton Foster "Music Man" coming that killed all hope of that Toronto "Music Man" getting here - though I guess what we're getting is also a minority-inclusive show in its way - Mr. Jackman is certainly in a rarefied anti-ageist minority group playing Harold Hill as the hottest 50 year old man in the entire world with no body fat - and thus being an outsider in River City for that reason.
But I sense this show "Rock and Roll Man" may never get here and this negative notice excites me for its promise. And I shouldn't be complacent that "Raisin in the Sun" will get here with ALL the same people; the inn near the Williamstown Festival has great prices. Yes, I know - "first world problems," to complain about missing an inclusion era "Raisin in the Sun."