The performers couldn't enter through the front door at most venues when the first Motown revue swung through the Deep South on tour. It was 1962, and busloads of Freedom Riders were still fresh in ...

There was never a doubt what show Mosaic Youth Theatre founder Rick Sperling would choose as his last one to present before retiring. It had to be “Now That I Can Dance: Motown 1962,” the bittersweet ...

The "once-forgotten" girl-group of the early 1960s that gave Motown Records its first number one hit is making a comeback of sorts this month, thanks to the talented young performers of Detroit's ...

DETROIT - On Friday, May 11th 2012, Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit will wrap up its 20th Celebration Season with a revival of the hit musical production, Now That I Can Dance -- Motown 1962. The show ...

Now That I Can Dance — Motown 1962 is performed at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, May 18-19, and at 4 p.m. Sunday, May 20, at the Detroit Film Theatre, inside the DIA, at 5200 Woodward Ave., Detroit ...

The answer, of course, is “D.” That “someone else” was The Marvelettes, the teenage Inkster girl group whose song “Please Mr. Postman” soared to the top of both the pop and R&B charts in late 1961.

Fourteen years ago the Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit unveiled “Now That I Can Dance — Motown 1962,” which went on to become the most popular production in the troupe’s 27-year history. But it’s been ...

(WXYZ) — The Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit, in cooperation with the Motown Museum, is hosing auditions for the return of "Now That I Can Dance – Motown 1962 ...

If The Complete Motown Singles, Vol. 2: 1962 (Hip-O Select) were a pile of the original 50-odd 7-inch singles it collects, it’d be an impossibly cool artifact. As it is, it’s a pretty neat idea—the ...

The Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit pays homage to another homegrown entertainment institution in “Now That I Can Dance – Motown 1962,” with two weekend runs at the Detroit Film Theatre auditorium, ...

In 1959, an aspiring songwriter and record producer named Berry Gordy Jr. borrowed $800 to start his own record label in Detroit. Good investment. Within a year, Motown had its first million-selling ...

That's 155 on The Complete Motown Singles, Vol. 1: 59-61, and another 112 on its 4-CD continuum, Vol. 2: 1962. Together these bound, color-coded ledgers, each housing an actual Tamla/Motown 45, ...