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By Susan Whitall
The Detroit News
For some young hopeful, it's the starmaking role of a lifetime: Motown founder Berry Gordy is seeking a young, African-American male, age 8 to 11 years old, to play several roles in the forthcoming Broadway production "Motown: The Musical."
One youngster will play Michael Jackson, Little Stevie Wonder and a pre-teen Berry Gordy.
As previously announced, the musical will premiere in the spring of 2013 in one of the Broadway theaters owned by the Nederlanders.
The full story on the auditions will be available on the website, www.MotownTheMusical.com/Casting, which goes live at 3 p.m. Tuesday, but the successful candidate will have to have a stunning high tenor voice and be able to move like Jackson when he was busting his James Brown moves.
The producers describe the roles thusly:
Michael Jackson: "The King of Pop, discovered in 1968 by Berry Gordy as part of the pop phenomenon the Jackson 5, when he was 10 years old."
Stevie Wonder: "Eleven years old when he first recorded for Motown in 1961."
Berry Gordy. "Mischievous youngster from a middle-class family in 1930s Detroit, a bit of a hustler and a bit of a dreamer."
"Motown: The Musical" will be produced by Kevin McCollum ("Rent," "Avenue Q"), Doug Morris (Chairman and CEO of Sony Music Entertainment) and Gordy.
The musical will be directed by Charles Randolph-Wright from a book by Gordy, and will feature dozens of hit Motown songs by such artists as Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Diana Ross and the Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, the Temptations and Michael Jackson and the Jackson Five.
swhitall@detnews.com
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/...musical?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|FRONTPAGE|s
The Detroit News
For some young hopeful, it's the starmaking role of a lifetime: Motown founder Berry Gordy is seeking a young, African-American male, age 8 to 11 years old, to play several roles in the forthcoming Broadway production "Motown: The Musical."
One youngster will play Michael Jackson, Little Stevie Wonder and a pre-teen Berry Gordy.
As previously announced, the musical will premiere in the spring of 2013 in one of the Broadway theaters owned by the Nederlanders.
The full story on the auditions will be available on the website, www.MotownTheMusical.com/Casting, which goes live at 3 p.m. Tuesday, but the successful candidate will have to have a stunning high tenor voice and be able to move like Jackson when he was busting his James Brown moves.
The producers describe the roles thusly:
Michael Jackson: "The King of Pop, discovered in 1968 by Berry Gordy as part of the pop phenomenon the Jackson 5, when he was 10 years old."
Stevie Wonder: "Eleven years old when he first recorded for Motown in 1961."
Berry Gordy. "Mischievous youngster from a middle-class family in 1930s Detroit, a bit of a hustler and a bit of a dreamer."
"Motown: The Musical" will be produced by Kevin McCollum ("Rent," "Avenue Q"), Doug Morris (Chairman and CEO of Sony Music Entertainment) and Gordy.
The musical will be directed by Charles Randolph-Wright from a book by Gordy, and will feature dozens of hit Motown songs by such artists as Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Diana Ross and the Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, the Temptations and Michael Jackson and the Jackson Five.
swhitall@detnews.com
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/...musical?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|FRONTPAGE|s