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Britain's Got Talent
Series 8
Broadcast from
12 April (2014-04-12) – 7 June 2014 (2014-06-07)
Judges
Simon Cowell
Amanda Holden
Alesha Dixon
David Walliams
Ant & Dec (guests)
Presenter(s)
Anthony McPartlin (ITV)
Declan Donnelly (ITV)
Co-presenter(s)
Stephen Mulhern (ITV2)
Broadcaster
ITV
ITV2 (BGMT)
Winner
Collabro
Origin
Leeds, England
Song
"Bring Him Home"
Genre(s)
Musical theatre
Runner-up
Lucy Kay
Chronology
◀
2014
▶
Series Eight of Britain's Got Talent, a British talent competition series, began broadcasting in the UK during 2014, from 12 April to 7 June on ITV; because of England's international friendly with Peru, the show took a break on 30 May to avoid clashing with live coverage of the match. The series is most notable for holding auditions in Northern Ireland for the first time, instead of Scotland as had been done since the second series, as well as for the hosts Ant & Dec having to stand in for Simon Cowell, after illness forced him to be absent during a day of auditions.[1] It was also the first series in the show's history to have a buzzer used during the live final, and was the first to include the "Golden Buzzer" - a format introduced to the programme, which had begun to appear within the Got Talent franchise since it was first introduced on Germany's Got Talent in 2012.[2][3]
The eighth series was won by boy band Collabro, with opera singer Lucy Kay finishing in second place and singing/rapping duo Bars and Melody in third place.[4] During its broadcast, the series averaged around 9.8 million viewers.
Contents
1 Series overview
1.1 Semi-finals summary
1.1.1 Semi-final 1 (26 May)
1.1.2 Semi-final 2 (27 May)
1.1.3 Semi-final 3 (28 May)
1.1.4 Semi-final 4 (29 May)
1.1.5 Semi-final 5 (31 May)
1.2 Final (7 June)
2 Ratings
3 Criticism
3.1 Holden's semi-final comment
4 References
Series overview[edit]
Because Cowell was absent for the first day of auditions in Manchester, hosts Ant & Dec each took a turn standing in for him
Following open auditions held the previous year between 19 October to 1 December 2013 in various cities,[5] which included auditions held at a series of "Talent Spot tents" provided by the show's sponsor that year,[6] and at The Savoy Hotel in Blackpool and The Old Ship Hotel in Brighton, the Judges' auditions took place between January and February 2014, within Belfast,[7] London,[8][9][10] Manchester, Birmingham,[11][12][13] and Cardiff.[14][15] For the first time since the second series, auditions didn't take place in Scotland, as the show's producers wished to try new locations for talent, which led to them opting to hold auditions within Northern Ireland for the first time as a result.[16][17] Due to illness, Simon Cowell was forced to be absent from a day of auditions in Manchester to recover, leading to hosts Ant & Dec each standing in for him,[1] while on the final day of auditions in London, Cowell was forced to be absent for them to attend to his girlfriend Lauren Silverman, who had gone into labour that day; the show's production team chose not to bring in a stand-in because of this.[18]
The eighth series is most notable in the show's history for the introduction of a new format that was slowly becoming a part of auditions within other shows of the Got Talent franchise, since it was first used on Germany's Got Talent - the "Golden Buzzer". During Judges' auditions, the judges' desk now featured a golden buzzer along with their respective standard buzzers, which both the judges and the show's host could each use only once if a participant's audition was outstanding to them, regardless of the opinions of the others - the participant would automatically move into the semi-finals, as a direct result of being given the golden buzzer.[2][3]
Of the participants that took part, forty-five made it past this stage and into the five live semi-finals-[19] of these acts, salsa dancing duo Paddy & Nico,[20] hip hop duo Bars & Melody,[21] singer Christian Spridon,[22] girl group REAformed,[23] and stand-up comedian/impressionist Toju,[24] each received a golden buzzer during their auditions - with nine appearing in each one, and eleven of these acts making it into the live final; the wildcard act chosen by the judges was impressionist Jon Clegg, after he lost out in the tied Judges' vote in the first semi-final. The following below lists the results of each participant's overall performance in this series:
Winner | Runner-up | Third place
Finalist | Semi-finalist (lost judges' vote) | Semi-finalist (eliminated)
Judges' wildcard (previously eliminated act reinstated into the final by the judges)
Golden buzzer
Participant
Age(s)
Genre
Act
Semi-final
Result
Allan Turner-Ward 37 Music DJ 4 Eliminated
Andrew Derbyshire 31 Singing Singer 5 Eliminated
Bailey McConnell 15 Singing Singer 5 Eliminated (Lost Judges' vote)
Bars & Melody 13 & 15 Singing Rapper And Singer 4 Third place
Bolddog FMX Team 24–48 Danger Motorcycle Stunt Team 2 Eliminated
Brian Chan 25 Variety Painter 3 Eliminated
Cartel 16–27 Dance Dance Group 3 Eliminated (Lost Judges' vote)
Christian Spridon 36 Singing Entertainer 1 Eliminated
Collabro 20–24 Singing Operatic Group 1 Winner
Country Vive 16–35 Dance Country Dancing Troupe 1 Eliminated
Crazy Rouge 21–26 Dance Burlesque Dance Troupe 3 Eliminated
Darcy Oake 26 Magic Illusionist 1 Finalist (Won Judges' vote)
Ed Drewett 26 Singing Singer 2 Eliminated
Ellis Chick 12 Singing Singer 3 Eliminated
Eva Iglesias 40 Singing Singer 4 Eliminated
Henrietta Adewole 18 Singing Singer 1 Eliminated
Innova Irish Dance Company 14–23 Dance Irish Dance Troupe 4 Eliminated (Lost Judges' vote)
Jack Pack 24–33 Singing Singing Group 5 Finalist (Won Public vote)
James Smith 15 'Singing / Music Singer And Guitarist 2 Finalist (Won Public vote)
Jenson Zhu 37 Comedy Impressionist 5 Eliminated
Jodi Bird 16 Singing Musical Theatre Singer 2 Eliminated (Lost Judges' vote)
Jon Clegg 43 Comedy Impressionist 1 Finalist (Won Judges' Wildcard)
Kieran & Sarah 26 & 28 Singing Singing Duo 4 Eliminated
Kieran Lai 17 Dance Bodypopper 5 Eliminated
Kings & Queens 18–29 Dance Latin Dance Troupe 5 Eliminated
Kitty & Rosie 25 & 48 Singing Singing Duo 3 Eliminated
Kony Puppets 32 Comedy Puppet Act 2 Eliminated
La Voix & The London Gay Big Band 26–52 Music / Variety Drag Act And Orchestral Band 5 Eliminated
Lauren & Terrell 12 Dance Dance Duo 1 Eliminated
Lettice Rowbotham 24 Music Violinist 4 Finalist (Won Judges' vote)
Light Balance 19–33 Dance Electronic Dance Troupe 4 Eliminated
Lucy Kay 24 Singing Opera Singer 3 Runner-up
Micky Dumoulin 25 Singing Singer 1 Eliminated
Mini Moves 11–12 Dance Dance Troupe 2 Eliminated
Paddy & Nico 79 & 39 Dance Salsa Dance Duo 5 Finalist (Won Judges' vote)
Patsy May 1 N/A 1 Comedy Puppet Act 1 Eliminated
Peat Loaf & Elaine 52 & 36 Singing Singing Duo 5 Eliminated
Pyroterra 19–26 Variety Fire Performers 4 Eliminated
REAformed 16–21 Singing Girl Group 3 Eliminated
Ricky K 33 Comedy Comic Mime Act 2 Eliminated
Sam Jones 21 Comedy Ventriloquist 3 Eliminated
SweetChix 14–15 Singing Girl Group 2 Eliminated
The Addict Initiative 17–31 Dance Dance Troupe 2 Finalist (Won Judges' vote)
Toju 40 Comedy Stand-up Comedian 4 Eliminated
Yanis Marshall, Arnaud and Mehdi 24–26 Dance Dance Trio 3 Finalist (Won Judges' vote)
^1 No information on the puppeteer for this act was disclosed by the show.
Semi-finals summary[edit]
Buzzed out
Judges' vote
Won the public vote | Won the judges' vote; won by public vote in the event of a tie
Lost the judges' vote; lost by public vote in the event of a tie | Eliminated
Semi-final 1 (26 May)[edit]
Guest performer: Ella Henderson ("Ghost") [25]
Semi-Finalist
Order
Act
Buzzes and judges' votes
Result[26]
Cowell
Holden
Dixon
Walliams
Country Vive
1 Country Dance Troupe 4th - Eliminated
Micky Dumoulin
2 Singer 5th - Eliminated
Lauren and Terrell
3 Dance Duo 6th - Eliminated
Patsy May
4 Puppet Act 7th - Eliminated
Henrietta Adewole
5 Singer 9th - Eliminated
Jon Clegg 2
6 Impressionist 3rd (Judges' vote tied - Lost on Public vote)
Darcy Oake
7 Illusionist 2nd (Judges' vote tied - Won on Public vote)
Christian Spridon
8 Entertainer 8th - Eliminated
Collabro
9 Operatic Group 1st (Won Public vote)
^2 Jon Clegg was later sent through to the final as the judges wildcard.
Semi-final 2 (27 May)[edit]
Guest performer: Ed Sheeran ("Sing") [27]
Semi-Finalist[28]
Order
Act
Buzzes and judges' votes
Result[26]
Cowell
Holden
Dixon
Walliams
Mini Moves
1 Dance Group 4th - Eliminated
Ed Drewett
2 Singer 5th - Eliminated
Bolddog FMX Team 3
3 Motorcycle Stunt Team 6th - Eliminated
Jodi Bird
4 Musical Theatre Singer 3rd (Lost Judges' vote)
SweetChix
5 Girl Group 7th - Eliminated
Ricky K
6 Comic Mime Act 8th - Eliminated
The Addict Initiative
7 Dance Troupe 2nd (Won Judges' vote)
Kony Puppets
8 Puppet Act 9th - Eliminated
James Smith
9 Singer And Guitarist 1st (Won Public vote)
^3 Bolddog FMX Team's performance was pre-recorded outside the studio, in advance.
Semi-final 3 (28 May)[edit]
Guest performer: The Vamps ("Last Night") [29]
Semi-Finalist
Order
Act
Buzzes and judges' votes
Result[26]
Cowell
Holden
Dixon
Walliams
Crazy Rouge
1 Burlesque Dance Troupe 7th - Eliminated
Ellis Chick
2 Singer 4th - Eliminated
Sam Jones
3 Ventriloquist 6th - Eliminated
REAformed
4 Girl Group 5th - Eliminated
Brian Chan
5 Painter 9th - Eliminated
Cartel
6 Dance Group 3rd (Judges' vote tied - Lost on Public vote)
Kitty and Rosie
7 Singing Duo 8th - Eliminated
Lucy Kay
8 Opera Singer 1st (Won Public vote)
Yanis Marshall, Arnaud and Mehdi
9 Dance Trio 2nd (Judges' vote tied - Won on Public vote)
Semi-final 4 (29 May)[edit]
Guest performers: will.i.am featuring Cody Wise ("It's My Birthday") [30]
Semi-Finalist
Order
Act
Buzzes and judges' votes
Result[26]
Cowell
Holden
Dixon
Walliams
Innova Irish Dance Company
1 Irish Dance Troupe 3rd (Judges' vote tied - Lost on Public vote)
Kieran & Sarah
2 Opera Singing Duo 7th - Eliminated
Pyroterra
3 Fire Performers 8th - Eliminated
Toju
4 Stand-up Comedian 6th - Eliminated
Eva Iglesias
5 Singer 5th - Eliminated
Allan Turner-Ward
6 DJ 9th - Eliminated
Light Balance
7 Electronic Dance Troupe 4th - Eliminated
Bars & Melody
8 Rapper And Singer 1st (Won Public vote)
Lettice Rowbotham
9 Violinist 2nd (Judges' vote tied - Won on Public vote)
Semi-final 5 (31 May)[edit]
Guest performers: Attraction and Richard & Adam ("Can You Feel the Love Tonight") [31]
Semi-Finalist
Order
Act
Buzzes and judges' votes
Result[26]
Cowell
Holden
Dixon
Walliams
La Voix & The London Gay Big Band
1 Drag Act And Orchestral Band 6th - Eliminated
Bailey McConnell
2 Singer And Guitarist 3rd (Lost Judges' vote)
Kings & Queens
3 Latin Dance Troupe 5th - Eliminated
Peat Loaf & Elaine
4 Singing Duo 9th - Eliminated
Andrew Derbyshire
5 Singer 7th - Eliminated
Jenson Zhu
6 Impressionist 4th - Eliminated
Kieran Lai
7 Bodypopper 8th - Eliminated
Paddy & Nico 4
8 Salsa Dance Duo 2nd (Won Judges' vote)
Jack Pack
9 Singing Group 1st (Won Public vote)
^4 Paddy & Nico's performance had to be slightly modified before the semi-final, after the former was injured before its broadcast.[32]
Final (7 June)[edit]
Main article: List of Britain's Got Talent finalists (series 8)
Guest performers: Diversity & Little Mix ("Salute");[33] Cheryl Cole featuring Tinie Tempah ("Crazy Stupid Love") [34]
Winner | Runner-up | 3rd place
Finalist
Order
Act
Finished[26]
The Addict Initiative
1 Dance Troupe 10th
Jon Clegg
2 Impressionist 7th
Lettice Rowbotham
3 Violinist 8th
Yanis Marshall, Arnaud and Mehdi 5
4 Dance Trio 11th
Bars and Melody
5 Rapper And Singer Duo 3rd
James Smith
6 Singer And Guitarist 6th
Jack Pack
7 Singing Group 4th
Darcy Oake
8 Illusionist 5th
Paddy & Nico
9 Salsa Dance Duo 9th
Collabro
10 Operatic Group 1st
Lucy Kay
11 Opera Singer 2nd
^5 Cowell pressed his buzzer during Yanis Marshall, Arnaud and Mehdi's performance.
Ratings[edit]
Main article: List of Britain's Got Talent episodes
Episode
Date
Total viewers (millions)[35]
Weekly rank[35]
Share (%)
Auditions 1
12 April 12.41 1 45.0[36]
Auditions 2
19 April 11.05 1 40.4[37]
Auditions 3
26 April 11.33 1 42.6[38]
Auditions 4
3 May 10.90 1 42.3[39]
Auditions 5
10 May 11.14 1 41.1[40]
Auditions 6
17 May 10.70 1 40.9[41]
Auditions 7
25 May 9.93 1 38.9[42]
Semi-final 1
26 May 10.94 1 39.1[43]
Semi-final 1 results
8.87 10 33.3[43]
Semi-final 2
27 May 9.36 8 34.9[44]
Semi-final 2 results
7.54 14 27.4[44]
Semi-final 3
28 May 9.41 6 36.7[45]
Semi-final 3 results
7.55 13 28.7[45]
Semi-final 4
29 May 9.53 7 36.7[46]
Semi-final 4 results
8.39 12 33.3[46]
Semi-final 5
31 May 8.97 11 38.1[47]
Semi-final 5 results
7.09 19 28.2[47]
Live final
7 June 12.05 1 49.0[48]
Criticism[edit]
Holden's semi-final comment[edit]
After the final semi-final had been aired, several viewers took to social media to criticise Amanda Holden for a comment she had made in regards to he performance of salsa dance duo Paddy & Nico. Prior to their appearance in the live episode, Paddy had received an injury during practice and had to be checked over by the show's doctors before she could be allowed to perform. Making her opinion of their act in the semi-final, Holden had complimented the dancer for doing well despite the circumstances, adding remarks that she had "come back from injury with fighting spirit" and "today is Pad-D Day". Posts written about the comment complained that it had been distasteful to compare the performance of the dance duo with the efforts of the soldiers during the D-Day landings, with one viewer commenting that her words had been "disrespectful".[49]
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Boundaries between the continents of Earth
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Color-coded map of continents:
Americas
North America
South America
Afro-Eurasia
Africa
Eurasia
Asia
Europe
Antarctica
Australia/Australasia/Oceania
Map of island countries: these states are not located on any continent-sized landmass, but they are usually grouped geographically with a neighbouring continent
A map of transcontinental countries, countries that control territory in more than one continent
Contiguous transcontinental countries
Non-contiguous transcontinental countries
Countries that could be considered transcontinental depending on definitions and claim legality
The boundaries between the continents of Earth are generally a matter of geographical convention. Several slightly different conventions are in use. The number of continents is most commonly considered seven but may range as low as four when the Americas and Afro-Eurasia are each considered a single continent. According to the definition of a continent in the strict sense, an island cannot be part of any continent, but by convention and in practice most major islands are associated with a continent.
There are three overland boundaries subject to definition:
between Europe and Asia (dividing Eurasia): along the Turkish Straits, the Caucasus and the Urals (historically also north of the Caucasus, along the Kuma–Manych Depression or along the Don River)
between Asia and Africa (dividing Afro-Eurasia into Africa and Eurasia): at the Isthmus of Suez
between North America and South America (dividing the Americas): the Isthmus of Panama
While the isthmus between Asia and Africa and that between North and South America are today navigable, via the Suez and Panama canals, respectively, diversions and canals of human origin generally are not accepted on their own accord as continent-defining boundaries; the Suez Canal happens to traverse the isthmus between the Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea, dividing Asia and Africa. The remaining boundaries concern the association of islands and archipelagos with specific continents, notably:
the delineation of Southeast Asia from Australasia (part of Oceania) in the Ceram Sea, Arafura Sea, Timor Sea, Halmahera Sea, and Malay Archipelago
the delineation between Africa, Europe and Asia in the Mediterranean Sea
the delineation between Asia and Europe in the Arctic Ocean
the delineation between Europe and North America in the Atlantic Ocean
the delineation between North and South America in the Caribbean Sea
the delineation of Asia from North America in the North Pacific Ocean
Contents
1 Europe and Africa
2 Europe and Asia
2.1 History
2.2 Modern definition
2.3 Islands
3 Europe and North America
3.1 Islands
4 Africa and Asia
5 North and South America
5.1 Mainland
5.2 Islands
6 Asia and North America
7 The Americas and Oceania
8 Asia and Oceania
9 Antarctica
10 See also
11 References
Europe and Africa[edit]
The Mediterranean sea, between Africa & Europe
The Atlantic Ocean around the boundary
The European and African mainlands are non-contiguous, and the delineation between these continents is thus merely a question of which islands are to be associated with which continent. At its nearest point, Morocco and the European portion of Spain are separated by only 13 kilometres (8.1 miles).
The Portuguese Atlantic island possession of the Azores is 1,368 km (850 mi) from Europe and 1,507 km (936 mi) from Africa, and is usually grouped with Europe if grouped with any continent. By contrast, the Canary and Madeira islands off the Atlantic coast of Morocco are much closer to, and usually grouped with, Africa (the Canary Islands are only 100 km (62 mi) from the African coast at their closest point, while Madeira is 520 km (320 mi) from Africa and 1,000 km (620 mi) from Europe).[1]
The Mediterranean island nation of Malta is approximately 81 km (50 mi) from the coast of Sicily in Europe - much closer than the 288 km (179 mi) distance to the closest African coast. The nearby Italian island of Lampedusa is 207 km (129 mi) from Sicily while just 127 km (79 mi) from the African coast; similarly, Pantelleria is 100 km (62 mi) from Sicily and just 71 km (44 mi) from the African coast. All of these Mediterranean islands are actually located on the African plate, and may be considered part of the continent of Africa.[2][3] However, for political and historical reasons, maps generally display them as part of Europe.
Europe and Asia[edit]
The boundary between Europe and Asia is unusual among continental boundaries because of its largely mountain-and-river-based characteristics north and east of the Black Sea. The reason is historical, the division of Europe and Asia going back to the early Greek geographers. In the modern sense of the term "continent", Eurasia is more readily identifiable as a "continent", and Europe has occasionally been described as a subcontinent of Eurasia.[4]
History[edit]
Conventions used for the boundary between Europe and Asia during the 18th and 19th centuries. The red line shows the most common modern convention, in use since c. 1850 (see below).
Europe
Asia
historically placed in either continent
The threefold division of the Old World into Europe, Asia and Africa has been in use since the 6th century BC, due to Greek geographers such as Anaximander and Hecataeus.
Anaximander placed the boundary between Asia and Europe along the Phasis River (the modern Rioni) in the Caucasus (from its mouth by Poti on the Black Sea coast, through the Surami Pass and along the Kura River to the Caspian Sea), a convention still followed by Herodotus in the 5th century BC.[5] As geographic knowledge of the Greeks increased during the Hellenistic period,[6] this archaic convention was revised, and the boundary between Europe and Asia was now considered to be the Tanais (the modern Don River). This is the convention used by Roman era authors such as Posidonius,[7] Strabo[8] and Ptolemy.[9]
Throughout the Middle Ages and into the 18th century, the traditional division of the landmass of Eurasia into two continents, Europe and Asia, followed Ptolemy, with the boundary following the Turkish Straits, the Black Sea, the Kerch Strait, the Sea of Azov and the Don (known in antiquity as the Tanais). But maps produced during the 16th to 18th centuries tended to differ in how to continue the boundary beyond the Don bend at Kalach-na-Donu (where it is closest to the Volga, now joined with it by the Volga–Don Canal), into territory not described in any detail by the ancient geographers.
Philip Johan von Strahlenberg in 1725 was the first to depart from the classical Don boundary by drawing the line along the Volga, following the Volga north until the Samara Bend, along Obshchy Syrt (the drainage divide between Volga and Ural) and then north along Ural Mountains.[10][11] The mapmakers continued to differ on the boundary between the lower Don and Samara well into the 19th century. The 1745 atlas published by the Russian Academy of Sciences has the boundary follow the Don beyond Kalach as far as Serafimovich before cutting north towards Arkhangelsk, while other 18th- to 19th-century mapmakers such as John Cary followed Strahlenberg's prescription. To the south, the Kuma–Manych Depression was identified circa 1773 by a German naturalist, Peter Simon Pallas, as a valley that, once upon a time, connected the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea,[11][12] and subsequently was proposed as a natural boundary between continents.
By the mid-19th century, there were three main conventions, one following the Don, the Volga–Don Canal and the Volga, the other following the Kuma–Manych Depression to the Caspian and then the Ural River, and the third abandoning the Don altogether, following the Greater Caucasus watershed to the Caspian. The question was still treated as a "controversy" in geographical literature of the 1860s, with Douglas Freshfield advocating the Caucasus crest boundary as the "best possible", citing support from various "modern geographers".[13]
In Russia and the Soviet Union, the boundary along the Kuma–Manych Depression was the most commonly used as early as 1906.[14] In 1958, the Soviet Geographical Society formally recommended that the boundary between the Europe and Asia be drawn in textbooks from Baydaratskaya Bay, on the Kara Sea, along the eastern foot of Ural Mountains, then following the Ural River until the Mugodzhar Hills, and then the Emba River; and Kuma–Manych Depression,[15] thus placing the Caucasus entirely in Asia and the Urals entirely in Europe.[16] However, most geographers in the Soviet Union favoured the boundary along the Caucasus crest[17] and this became the standard convention in the latter 20th century, although the Kuma–Manych boundary remained in use in some 20th-century maps.
Maps
Map
Description
Map of the world according to Anaximander (6th century BC). Only the parts of Europe, Asia and Africa directly adjacent to the Mediterranean and the Black Sea are known. The Phasis River of the Caucasus is imagined as separating Europe from Asia, while the Nile separates Asia from Africa (Libya).
In this 1570 map of Asia (Asiae Nova Descriptio), the Tanais is used as continental boundary. Moscovia is represented as "transcontinental", having an Asiatic and a European part (labelled Europae pars).
This 1719 map of "ancient Asia" (Asia Vetus) divides Sarmatia into Sarmatia Europea and Sarmatia Asiatica. The continental boundary is drawn along the Tanais (Don), the Volga and the Northern Dvina.
Herman Moll (c. 1715) draws the boundary along the Don, the Volga, cutting across land from Samara to the Tobol River, following the lower Irtysh and finally the Ob River, placing Novaya Zemlya in Europe.
A German map of 1730 by Johann Christoph Homann has a similar boundary to the one shown by Moll, but following the full length of the Samara bend and then cutting across to the Irtysh directly, placing the Tobol and Tobolsk in Asia.
The "Academy Atlas" of the Russian Empire, published by The Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences in 1745, draws the boundary along the Don, but then west of the Volga to Arkhangelsk
1803 Cedid Atlas (Ottoman Empire), draws the boundary along the Don, Volga and River Kama and then cuts northwards to Khaypudyr Bay. Novaya Zemlya is in Europe.
1806 map of Asia by John Cary, boundary along the Don and then the Volga until Samara, and north of Perm following the Urals, placing Novaya Zemlya in Asia.
1827 map by Anthony Finley, showing the boundary as running along the Don, the Volga, passing between Perm and Ufa, and running north over land to the Sea of Kara, placing Novaya Zemlya in Europe.
1861 map by A. J. Johnson, illustrating the modern convention, Caucasus crest, Ural River, Urals.
1914 map showing the boundary along the Manych River, placing Stavropol Krai in Asia
Miles Clark in his 1992 "circumnavigation of Europe" followed the White Sea – Baltic Canal until Lake Onega and the Volga–Baltic Waterway to the Rybinsk Reservoir before joining the classical boundary along the Volga and Don rivers.[18][19]
Modern definition[edit]
Transcontinental states, European territory
Transcontinental states, Asian territory
The modern border between Asia and Europe remains a historical and cultural construct, defined only by convention. The modern border follows the Aegean Sea, the Dardanelles-Sea of Marmara-Bosphorus (together known as the Turkish Straits), the Black Sea, along the watershed of the Greater Caucasus, the northwestern portion of the Caspian Sea and along the Ural River and Ural Mountains to the Kara Sea, as mapped and listed in most atlases including that of the National Geographic Society and as described in the World Factbook.[20][21] According to this definition, Georgia and Azerbaijan both have most of their territory in Asia, although each has small parts of their northern borderlands north of the Greater Caucasus watershed and thus in Europe.[22]
Though most geographic sources assign the area south of the Caucasus Mountain crest to Southwest or West Asia,[23] no definition is entirely satisfactory, with it often becoming a matter of self-identification. Cultural influences in the area originate from both Asia and Europe. While geographers rarely define continents primarily politically, Georgia and to a lesser extent Armenia and Azerbaijan are increasingly in the 21st century politically oriented towards Europe, but Armenia has a great cultural diaspora to the south, and Azerbaijan shares a cultural affinity with Iranian Azerbaijan as well as with the Turkic countries of Central Asia.[24]
The Turkish city Istanbul lies in on both sides of the Bosporus (one of the Turkish Straits), making it a transcontinental city. Russia and Turkey are transcontinental countries with territory in both Europe and Asia by any definition except that of Eurasia as a single continent. While Russia is historically a European country with a history of imperial conquests in Asia, the situation for Turkey is inverse, as that of an Asian country with imperial conquests in Europe. Kazakhstan is also a transcontinental country by this definition, its West Kazakhstan and Atyrau provinces extending on either side of the Ural River.[25]
Road sign on the continental border between Europe and Asia near Magnitogorsk, Ural Mountains, Russia. It reads "Europe", above a crossed-out "Asia", as one enters Europe and leaves Asia.
This Ural River delineation is the only segment not to follow a major mountain range or wide water body, both of which often truly separate populations. However, the Ural River is the most common division used by authorities,[20][25][26] is the most prominent natural feature in the region, and is the "most satisfactory of those (options) proposed"[27] which include the Emba River, a much smaller stream cutting further into Central Asian Kazakhstan. The Ural River bridge in Orenburg is even labeled with permanent monuments carved with the word "Europe" on one side, "Asia" on the other.[28]
The Kuma–Manych Depression (more precisely, the Manych River, the Kuma–Manych Canal and the Kuma River) remains cited less commonly as one possible natural boundary in contemporary sources.[29] This definition peaked in prominence in the 19th century, however it has declined in usage since then, as it places traditionally European areas of Russia such as Stavropol, Krasnodar, and even areas just south of Rostov-on-Don in Asia.
A lesser known definition for country grouping, is the definition used for statistical purposes by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD):[30]
listed as part of Eastern Europe: Russian Federation
listed as part of Central Asia: Kazakhstan
listed as part of Western Asia: Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkey
According to UNSD, the aforementioned "assignment of countries or areas to specific groupings is for statistical convenience and does not imply any assumption regarding political or other affiliation of countries or territories".[31] Furthermore, the UNSD classification often differs from those of other United Nations organizations. For instance, while UNSD includes Georgia and Cyprus in Western Asia, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization and UNESCO include both countries in Europe.[32][33]
The Council of Europe includes the Eurasian countries of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Georgia, Russia and Turkey. It notes that "two Council of Europe member States, Turkey and Russia, belong geographically to both Europe and Asia and are therefore Eurasian. Strictly speaking, the three South Caucasus States, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia are located in Asia, yet their membership of political Europe is no longer in doubt." [34]
Islands[edit]
Cyprus is an island of the Mediterranean located close to Asia Minor, so that it is usually associated with Asia and/or the Middle East, as in the World Factbook and the United Nations geoscheme, but the Republic of Cyprus was nevertheless admitted to the Council of Europe in 1961 and joined the EU in 2004. The northern part of the island functions as the unrecognized (except by Turkey) Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
The Greek North Aegean Islands and the Dodecanese lie on the coast of the Asian part of Turkey (on the Asian continental shelf).
Europe and North America[edit]
Europe and North America are separated by the North Atlantic. In terms of associating islands with either continent, the boundary is usually drawn between Greenland and Iceland. The Norwegian islands of Jan Mayen and Svalbard in the Arctic Ocean are usually associated with Europe. Iceland and the Azores are protrusions of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and are associated with and peopled from Europe, even though they have areas on the North American Plate. (Definitions of "continents" are a physical and cultural construct dating back centuries, long before the advent or even knowledge of plate tectonics; thus, defining a "continent" falls into the realm of physical and cultural geography, while continental plate definitions fall under plate tectonics in the realm of geology.)
Islands[edit]
The geographical notion of a continent stands in opposition to islands and archipelagos.[35] Nevertheless, there are some islands that are considered part of Europe in a political sense. This most notably includes the British Isles (part of the European continental shelf and during the Ice Age of the continent itself), besides the islands of the North Sea, the Baltic Sea and the Mediterranean which are part of the territory of a country situated on the European mainland, and usually also the island states of Iceland and Malta.
Russia's Vaygach Island and Novaya Zemlya extend northward from the northern end of the Ural Mountains and are a continuation of that chain into the Arctic Ocean. While Novaya Zemlya was variously grouped with Europe or with Asia in 19th-century maps it is now usually grouped with Europe, the continental boundary considered to join the Arctic Ocean along the southern shore of the Kara Sea. The Russian Arctic archipelago of Franz Josef Land farther north is also associated with Europe.
Europe ends in the west at the Atlantic Ocean, although Iceland and the Azores archipelago (in the Atlantic, between Europe and North America) are usually considered European, as is the Norwegian Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. Greenland is geographically part of North America, but politically associated with Europe as it is part of the Kingdom of Denmark, although it has extensive home rule and EU law no longer applies there.
Africa and Asia[edit]
African part of Egypt
Asian part of Egypt
Rest of Asia
Rest of Africa
Historically in Greco-Roman geography, "Africa" meant Ancient Libya, and its eastern extent was taken to be around Marmarica, at the Catabathmus Magnus, placing Egypt in Asia entirely. The idea of Egypt being an "African" country seems to develop in around the mid-19th century;[citation needed] the term Africa was classically reserved for what is now known as the Maghreb, to the explicit exclusion of Egypt, but with the exploration of Africa the shape of the African landmass (and Egypt's "natural" inclusion in that landmass) became apparent. In 1806, William George Browne still titled his travelogue Travels in Africa, Egypt, and Syria. Similarly, James Bruce in 1835 published Travels through part of Africa, Syria, Egypt, and Arabia. On the other hand, as early as 1670 John Ogilby under the title Africa published "an accurate Description of the Regions of Egypt, Barbary, Libya, and Billedulgerid, the Land of Negroes, Guinea, Æthiopia, and the Abyssines, with all the adjacent Islands, either in the Mediterranean, Atlantic, Southern, or Oriental Seas, belonging thereunto".
The usual line taken to divide Africa from Asia today is at the Isthmus of Suez, the narrowest gap between the Mediterranean and Gulf of Suez, the route today followed by the Suez Canal. This makes the Sinai Peninsula geographically Asian, and Egypt a transcontinental country. Less than 2% of Egyptian population live in the Sinai, and hence Egypt, even though technically transcontinental, is usually considered an African country entirely and not partly Asian.
But when discussing the geopolitical region of the Middle East and North Africa, Egypt is usually grouped with the Western Asian countries as part of the Middle East, while Egypt's western neighbor Libya is grouped with the remaining North African countries as the Maghreb. However, they are both members of the Arab League as well as the African Union.
The Seychelles, Mauritius, and Comoros are island nations in the Indian Ocean associated with Africa. The island of Socotra may be considered African as it lies on this continent's shelf, but is part of Yemen, an Asian country.
North and South America[edit]
Panama with the Panama Canal.
Further information: Americas and Central America
Mainland[edit]
The border between North America and South America is at some point on the Isthmus of Panama. The most common demarcation in atlases and other sources follows the Darién Mountains watershed divide along the Colombia-Panama border where the isthmus meets the South American continent. Virtually all atlases list Panama as a state falling entirely within North America and/or Central America.[36]
Islands[edit]
Often most of the Caribbean islands are considered part of North America, but Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao and Trinidad and Tobago lie on the continental shelf of South America. On the other hand, the Venezuelan Isla Aves and the Colombian San Andrés and Providencia lie on the North American shelf.
Asia and North America[edit]
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The Bering Strait and Bering Sea separate the landmasses of Asia and North America, as well as forming the international boundary between Russia and the United States. This national and continental boundary separates the Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait, with Big Diomede in Russia and Little Diomede in the US. The Aleutian Islands are an island chain extending westward from the Alaska Peninsula toward Russia's Komandorski Islands and Kamchatka Peninsula. Most of them are always associated with North America, except for the westernmost Near Islands group, which is on Asia's continental shelf beyond the North Aleutians Basin and on rare occasions could be associated with Asia, which could then allow the U.S. state of Alaska to be considered a transcontinental state.
St. Lawrence Island in the northern Bering Sea belongs to Alaska and may be associated with either continent but is almost always considered part of North America, as with the Rat Islands in the Aleutian chain. At their nearest points, Alaska and Russia are separated by only 4 kilometres (2.5 miles).
The Americas and Oceania[edit]
The Galápagos Islands and Malpelo Island in the eastern Pacific Ocean are possessions of Ecuador and Colombia, respectively, and associated with South America. The uninhabited French possession of Clipperton Island 1,000 kilometres (600 miles) off the Mexican coast is associated with North America.
Easter Island, a territory of Chile, is considered to be in Oceania, though politically it is associated with South America.
The United States of America controls numerous territories in Oceania, including the state of Hawaii and the territories of Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and American Samoa.
Asia and Oceania[edit]
Wallace, Lydekker and Weber Lines, the principals on Wallacea
The Malay Archipelago is usually divided between Asia and Australasia, most commonly along the anthropologic Melanesian line or Weber's Line. Indonesia controls the western half of New Guinea, geographically part of Australasia. The eastern half of the island is part of Papua New Guinea which is considered to be part of the Oceania. Indonesia is commonly referred to as one of the Southeast Asian countries. East Timor, an independent state that was formerly a territory of Indonesia, which is geographically part of Asia, is classified by the United Nations as part of the "South-Eastern Asia" block. It is expected to join the Association of Southeast Asian Nations,[37] having been involved as an ASEAN Regional Forum member since independence, and has participated in the Southeast Asian Games since 2003. Occasionally, all of the Malay Archipelago is included in Oceania, although this is extremely rare, especially as most of the archipelago lies on the Asian continental shelf.
The Commonwealth of Australia includes island possessions in Oceania and islands closer to Indonesia than the Australian mainland.
Antarctica[edit]
Antarctica along with its outlying islands have no permanent population. All land claims south of 60°S latitude are held in abeyance by the Antarctic Treaty System.
The South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands are closer to Antarctica than to any other continent. However, they are politically associated with the inhabited Falkland Islands which are closer to South America. Furthermore, Argentina, a South American country, maintains its irredentist claims on the islands. The continental shelf boundary separates the two island groups.
The Prince Edward Islands are located between Africa and Antarctica, and are the territory of South Africa, an African country. The Australian Macquarie Island and the New Zealand Antipodes Islands, Auckland Islands, and Campbell Islands, are all located between the Oceanian countries of Australia and New Zealand and Antarctica.
Australia's Heard Island and McDonald Islands and the French Kerguelen Islands are located on the Kerguelen Plateau, on the Antarctic continental plate. The French Crozet Islands, Île Amsterdam, Île Saint-Paul, and the Norwegian Bouvet Island are also located on the Antarctic continental plate, and are not often associated with other continents.
See also[edit]
Geography portal
List of countries bordering on two or more oceans
List of transcontinental countries
List of former transcontinental countries
The empire on which the sun never sets
Tricontinental Chile
Pluricontinentalism
List of sovereign states and dependent territories by continent
Continental divide
Borders of the oceans
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Motown: The Musical
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Motown: The Musical
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To Be Loved: The Music, the Magic, the Memories of Motown by Berry Gordy
Productions
2013 Broadway
2014 US Tour
2016 West End
2016 Broadway remount
Motown: The Musical is a jukebox musical that premiered on Broadway in April 2013. The musical is based on Berry Gordy's autobiography To Be Loved: The Music, the Magic, the Memories of Motown (1994),[1] and on the history of his founding and running of the Motown record label, and his personal and professional relationships with Motown artists such as Diana Ross, Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, and Michael Jackson. The production's music and lyrics are taken from selections from the Motown catalog.[2] It received four nominations at the 67th Tony Awards.
Contents
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1 Productions
2 Synopsis
3 Musical numbers
4 Critical response
5 Awards and nominations
6 References
7 External links
Productions[edit]
Motown: The Musical premiered on Broadway, at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, on April 14, 2013, after previews starting on March 11.[3][4] The production was directed by Charles Randolph-Wright, with choreography by Patricia Wilcox, scenic design by David Korins, costumes by ESosa, lighting by Natasha Katz, sound design by Peter Hylenski, and projection design by Daniel Brodie.[3]
The musical finished its original Broadway run on January 18, 2015, closing after 37 previews and 738 regular performances.[5]
A national tour began in April 2014, featuring Clifton Oliver and Allison Semmes.[6]
The show returned on July 12, 2016[7] to Broadway for an announced 18-week run at the Nederlander Theatre.[8] However, the run closed earlier than expected, on July 31, 2016.[9]
After speculation that a London production would be staged in the Dominion Theatre, which will be refurbished after We Will Rock You closes,[10] an eventual West End production was announced in May 2015 for the Shaftesbury Theatre, to begin on February 11, 2016.[11] The show is currently booking through January 5, 2019.[12] The West End production is directed by Charles Randolph-Wright, who also directed this musical on Broadway and its US tour. The cast stars Cedric Neal (as Berry Gordy), Lucy St. Louis (as Diana Ross), Sifiso Mazibuko (as Marvin Gaye), and Obioma Ugoala (as Smokey Robinson).[12][13]
Synopsis[edit]
In 1983, at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium, recording stars are gathered to celebrate Motown Records' 25th anniversary. In a flashback, the young Berry Gordy watches the neighbors dancing in Detroit. In 1957, the adult Berry forms his own record label, and begins to make lifelong friends with recording artists/singers such as Marvin Gaye and Smokey Robinson. Berry discovers the Supremes and Diana Ross, among many others.
The recording stars, sing their popular numbers, including Diana Ross ("I Hear a Symphony", "You're Nobody till Somebody Loves You", and "You're All I Need to Get By"), Stevie Wonder, The Supremes ("Buttered Popcorn", "Where Did Our Love Go"), The Miracles ("Shop Around"), The Marvelettes ("Please Mr. Postman"), Mary Wells ("Bye Bye Baby"/"Two Lovers Medley"), The Temptations, Martha and the Vandellas ("Dancing in the Street"), The Contours ("Do You Love Me"), and The Jackson 5.[14]
Musical numbers[edit]
The musical contains a total of 66 songs. The following song list is not the order of the songs in the production:[15]
"ABC" (music by Alphonso J. Mizell, Freddie Perren, Berry Gordy Jr., and Deke Richards; lyrics by Mizell, Perren, Gordy, and Richards)
"Ain't No Mountain High Enough" (music by Valerie Simpson, lyrics by Nickolas Ashford)
"Ain't Too Proud to Beg" (music by Norman J. Whitfield; lyrics by Edward Holland, Jr.)
"All Night Long (All Night)" (music by Lionel Richie; lyrics by Richie)
"Baby I Need Your Loving" (music by Brian Holland and Herbert Lamont Dozier; lyrics by Edward Holland, Jr.)
"Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today)" (music by Whitfield; lyrics by Barrett Strong)
"A Breathtaking Guy" (music by Smokey Robinson; lyrics by Robinson)
"Brick House" (music by Richie, Ronald LaPread, Walter Orange, Milan Williams, Thomas McClary and William King; lyrics by Richie, LaPread, Orange, Williams, McClary and King)
"Buttered Popcorn" (music by Gordy and Barney Ales; lyrics by Gordy and Ales)
"Bye Bye Baby" (music by Mary Wells; lyrics by Wells)
"Can I Close the Door" (music by Gordy and Michael Lovesmith; lyrics by Gordy and Lovesmith)
"Come See About Me" (music by Brian Holland and Dozier; lyrics by Edward Holland, Jr.)
"Cruisin'" (music by William Robinson and Marvin Tarplin; lyrics by W. Robinson)
"Dancing in the Street" (music by Marvin Gaye, Ivy Jo Hunter and William Stevenson; lyrics by Gaye, Hunter and Stevenson)
"Do You Love Me" (music by Gordy; lyrics by Gordy)
"Fingertips, Part 2" (music by Clarence O. Paul and Henry Cosby; lyrics by Paul and Cosby)
"For Once in My Life" (music by Orlando Murden and Ronald Miller; lyrics by Murden and Miller)
"Get Ready" (music by Smokey Robinson; lyrics by Robinson)
"Give It to Me Baby" (music by Rick James; lyrics by James)
"Good Morning Heartache" (music by Ervin M. Drake, Dan Fisher and Irene Higginbotham; lyrics by Drake, Fisher and Higginbotham)
"Got a Job" (music by Smokey Robinson, Gordy and Tyran Carlo; lyrics by Robinson, Gordy and Carlo)
"Hail to the Beat" (music by Gordy and Lovesmith; lyrics by Gordy and Lovesmith)
"The Happening" (music by Dozier, Brian Holland and Frank De Vol; lyrics by Edward Holland, Jr.)
"Happy Birthday" (music by Stevie Wonder; lyrics by Wonder)
"Hey Joe (Black Like Me)" (music by Gordy and Lovesmith; lyrics by Gordy and Lovesmith)
"How High the Moon" (music by Morgan Lewis; lyrics by Nancy Hamilton)
"I Can't Get Next to You" (music by Whitfield; lyrics by Strong)
"I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)" (music by Brian Holland and Dozier; lyrics by Edward Holland, Jr.)
"I Got a Feeling" (music by Brian Holland and Dozier; lyrics by Edward Holland, Jr.)
"I Hear a Symphony" (music by Brian Holland and Dozier; lyrics by Edward Holland, Jr.)
"I Heard It Through the Grapevine" (music by Whitfield; lyrics by Strong)
"(I Know) I'm Losing You" (music by Whitfield and Cornelius Grant; lyrics by Edward Holland, Jr.)
"I Want You Back" (music by Perren, Mizell, Gordy and Richards; lyrics by Perren, Mizell, Gordy and Richards)
"I'll Be There" (music by Hal Davis, Gordy, Bob West and Willie Hutch; lyrics by Davis, Gordy, West and Hutch)
"It's What's in the Grooves That Counts" (music by Gordy and Lovesmith; lyrics by Gordy and Lovesmith)
"Lonely Teardrops" (music by Gordy, Gwendolyn Gordy Fuqua and Carlo; lyrics by Gordy, Fuqua and Carlo)
"Love Child" (music by R. Dean Taylor, Frank Wilson, Joan Pamela Sawyer and Richards; lyrics by Taylor, Wilson, Sawyer and Richards)
"Love Is Here and Now You're Gone" (music by Brian Holland and Dozier; lyrics by Edward Holland, Jr.)
"The Love You Save" (music by Perren, Mizell, Gordy and Richards; lyrics by Perren, Mizell, Gordy and Richards)
"Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)" (music by Gaye; lyrics by Gaye)
"My Girl" (music by Ronald White and Smokey Robinson; lyrics by White and Robinson)
"My Guy" (music by Smokey Robinson; lyrics by Robinson)
"My Mama Done Told Me" (music by Smokey Robinson, Gordy and Carlo; lyrics by Robinson, Gordy and Carlo)
"Please Mr. Postman" (music by William Garrett, Georgia Dobbins, Brian Holland, Freddie Gorman and Robert Bateman; lyrics by Garrett, Dobbins, Brian Holland, Gorman and Bateman)
"Reach Out and Touch (Somebody's Hand)" (music by Simpson; lyrics by Ashford)
"Reach Out I'll Be There" (music by Brian Holland and Dozier; lyrics by Edward Holland, Jr.)
"Reet Petite" (music by Gordy and Carlo; lyrics by Gordy and Carlo)
"Remember Me" (music by Simpson; lyrics by Ashford)
"Shop Around" (music by Smokey Robinson and Gordy; lyrics by Robinson and Gordy)
"Shotgun" (music and lyrics by Junior Walker (Autry Dewalt))
"Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours" (music by Wonder, Syreeta Wright, Lee Garrett and Lula Mae Hardaway; lyrics by Wonder, Wright, Garrett and Hardaway)
"Square Biz" (music by Mary C. Brockert and Allen Henry McGrier; lyrics by Brockert and McGrier)
"Stop! In the Name of Love" (music by Brian Holland and Dozier; lyrics by Edward Holland, Jr.)
"Stubborn Kind of Fellow" (music by Gaye, George Gordy and Stevenson; lyrics by Gaye, Gordy and Stevenson)
"Super Freak" (music by James and Alonzo Miller; lyrics by James and Miller)
"The Tears of a Clown" (music by Wonder, Smokey Robinson and Cosby; lyrics by Robinson)
"To Be Loved" (music by Gordy, Fuqua and Carlo; lyrics by Gordy, Fuqua and Carlo)
"Two Lovers" (music by Smokey Robinson; lyrics by Robinson)
"War" (music by Whitfield; lyrics by Strong)
"What's Going On" (music by Renaldo Benson, Alfred W. Cleveland and Gaye; lyrics by Benson, Cleveland and Gaye)
"Where Did Our Love Go" (music by Brian Holland and Dozier; lyrics by Edward Holland, Jr.)
"Who's Lovin' You" (music by Smokey Robinson; lyrics by Robinson)
"You Are You" (music by Gordy; lyrics by Gordy)
"You're All I Need to Get By" (music by Simpson; lyrics by Ashford)
"You're Nobody till Somebody Loves You" (music by James Cavanaugh, Russ Morgan and Larry Stock; lyrics by Cavanaugh, Morgan and Stock)
"You've Really Got a Hold on Me" (music by Smokey Robinson; lyrics by Robinson)
Critical response[edit]
Charles Isherwood, in his review for The New York Times, wrote: "More than 50 songs...are performed in 'Motown,' usually, alas, in truncated versions. Most are simply presented as concert versions by the actors playing the artists who made them famous, but a few are shoehorned awkwardly into the story as 'book' songs.... Making way for so much music means that 'Motown' breezily scrimps on storytelling. Characters come and go so quickly we barely have time to register their famous names, let alone get to know them.... The performers put their songs across with verve and an admirable lack of self-consciousness, given that the audience is likely to be intimately familiar with every nuance of phrasing from the original recordings...."[2]
The TheatreMania reviewer noted:
Rather than giving us a complex portrait on this fascinating businessman, the show's shoddily written book is essentially a self-serving theatrical memoir in which Gordy gets to tell his life story. But just as importantly, the piece also serves as a celebration of the music that brought America's black and white populations together in a way nothing else ever did. Perhaps that is why Gordy and his creative team, led by director Charles Randolph-Wright, seem so worried they left out an audience favorite that they crammed in more than 50 hits. The result is that too few of the beloved Motown classics receive the kind of full-scale, all-out renditions they deserve. An early, extended version of Martha & The Vandellas' 'Dancing in the Street' proves not just a high point (abetted by energetic choreography from Patricia Wilcox and Warren Adams), but a false promise of what lies ahead....The one person who truly shines, though, is Valisia LeKae as Gordy's longtime paramour, superstar Diana Ross. It's not just her almost spot-on re-creation of Miss Ross' breathy voice and steely demeanor that commands our attention. The consistent display of her genuine star power — most evident in a thrilling 'Reach Out and Touch' segment — also draws us in.[16]
Awards and nominations[edit]
Motown: The Musical received four Tony Award nominations: Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (Musical) (Valisia LeKae); Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role (Musical) (Charl Brown); Best Orchestrations (Ethan Popp and Bryan Crook); and Best Sound Design of a Musical (Peter Hylenski).[17] The New York Times noted: "...'Motown the Musical,' a huge hit, drew four nominations, but none of them were for best musical."[18]
Valisia LeKae received a 2013 Theatre World Award for Outstanding Broadway or Off-Broadway Debut Performance.[19]
The West End production notably received no nominations at any award ceremonies, the only major London production to receive none in the 2016-2017 season.
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Haithman, Diane (December 11, 1994). "Talk! In the Name of Love". Los Angeles Times.
^ Jump up to: a b Isherwood, Charles (April 14, 2013). "‘Motown: The Musical,’ Berry Gordy’s Story". The New York Times.
^ Jump up to: a b Hetrick, Adam (April 14, 2013). "'Hail to the Beat': 'Motown: The Musical' Opens On Broadway April 14". Playbill.
Jump up ^ McCollum, Brian (February 7, 2013). "Berry Gordy's 'Motown: The Musical' preparing to make Broadway debut". Detroit Free Press.
Jump up ^ Hetrick, Adam & Gioia, Michael (January 18, 2015). "Motown Moves Out; Hit Broadway Musical Closes With Promise of 2016 Return". Playbill. CS1 maint: Uses authors parameter (link)
Jump up ^ Hetrick, Adam & Gans, Andrew (April 21, 2014). "'Motown' National Tour Extends Chicago Engagement to August". Playbill. CS1 maint: Uses authors parameter (link)
Jump up ^ Baron, Tricia. "'Motown The Musical' Celebrates Its Second Broadway Opening" theatermania.com, July 15, 2016
Jump up ^ "Motown Sets Dates and Theatre for Broadway Return". Playbill. December 6, 2015.
Jump up ^ Viagas, Robert (July 21, 2016). "Breaking: Broadway Motown Announces Closing". Playbill.
Jump up ^ "'Motown: The Musical' boogies into Dominion after We Will Rock You?". What's On Stage. March 11, 2014.
Jump up ^ "Motown the Musical to open at the Shaftesbury Theatre". London Theatre. May 15, 2015. Retrieved May 15, 2015.
^ Jump up to: a b http://motownthemusical.co.uk/500000-tickets-released-to-january-2019/ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "extend" defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
Jump up ^ "Casting Announced for Motown The Musical at the Shaftesbury Theatre". October 5, 2015. Retrieved October 6, 2015.
Jump up ^ Saltzman, Simon (April 13, 2013). "Review: 'Motown: The Musical'". CurtainUp.
Jump up ^ "Motown: The Musical — Songs". Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved May 22, 2013.
Jump up ^ Lipton, Brian Scott. "Review. 'Motown: The Musical'" theatermania.com, April 14, 2013
Jump up ^ "'Motown: The Musical' up for 4 Tonys; 'Kinky Boots' leads with 13". The Detroit News. April 30, 2013.
Jump up ^ Itzkoff, Dave (April 30, 2013). "Tony Award Nominations: Who Got Snubbed?". The New York Times.
Jump up ^ Gans, Andrew (May 7, 2013). "Tom Hanks, Bertie Carvel, Valisia LeKae, Rob McClure and More Are Theatre World Award Winners". Playbill.
External links[edit]
Motown The Musical at the Internet Broadway Database
Motown: The Musical - Official Site at motownthemusical.com
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