Hello from Detroit!
Hitsville USA is now a museum. You can actually stand in Studio A, where the hits were recorded. Shivers. Talk about standing in the shadow of Motown.
I was there a few weeks ago when Mosaic Youth Theatre, a Detroit after-school theater program, was rehearsing a show about Motown's early days before a small, invited audience that included two Miracles, two Vandellas, a Contour and a Marvelette. That ain't gonna happen in New York.