Dancing in the Streets comes to the Liverpool Empire

Feb 11 2010 Flintshire Chronicle

CELEBRATING Motown’s 50th anniversary year and the greatest Motown hits, West End hit show Dancing In The Streets calls in at the Liverpool Empire this week.

More than 40 years after Diana Ross and the Supremes, Martha and the Vandellas, Stevie Wonder and Smokey Robinson & the Miracles first arrived in the UK in the spring of 1965 with the Tamla Motown Revue Tour, Dancing In The Streets recreates what it was like to be there.

In the early 1960s, in the heavily industrialised town of Detroit – the heart of the US car industry – local kids were looking for a form of expression they could call their own.

They found it at the Motown Hitsville studio. Berry Gordy, a successful songwriter with his first big hit, Reet Petite with Detroit born Jackie Wilson under his belt, decided to form his own record company with just an $800 loan.

Dancing In The Streets will take you through the entire Motown repertoire, with classic hits by the score.

Dancing in the Streets can be seen until February 13. Ring 0844 847 2525 or visit www.LiverpoolEmpire.org.uk.