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HITSVILLE U.S.A.
There’s only so much history one can get from a two-hour musical. But “Motown the Musical” — with its 66 hit songs — reminds us how Berry Gordy’s vision helped create an America in which both blacks and whites were “Dancing in the Streets.”
Read MoreTHE BIG LIFE OF THE ORIGINAL PIPPIN
“It’s such a universal story,” John Rubinstein says of “Pippin,” which he first starred in on Broadway in 1972. “It’s a story about every single person in the audience, young or old.”
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