The company's upcoming themed concerts include 'Nashville Nights' April 19-21 and 'Piano Women' May 24-26
CCAE Theatricals is best known for its high-quality musical theater productions that have won multiple awards from the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle in recent years. But three-quarters of the 5-year-old Escondido theater company's annual productions are themed concerts. Last weekend, CCAE presented two performances of its biggest annual concert production, 'Motown: The Groove That Changed America.
The singers alternated singing in front of the onstage orchestra, with projected images of the featured Motown artists on a large screen behind them. Directed by Jeffrey Polk with music direction and conducting by bandleader Duane Benjamin, the smooth and fast-paced show wasn't presented in chronological order of the hits produced by Motown from 1961-1971. Instead the segments spotlighting individual stars and groups includes songs from throughout their recording years with Motown.
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