Michael Andreaus spends the most time onstage since he’s playing Williams. Mitchell) is a better dancer, so it’s a fair fight. as Dennis Edwards (an understudy for the role who went on Tuesday night instead of Dwayne P. In the cast at The Bushnell, Elijah Ahmad Lewis as Ruffin is a much better singer, but Melvin Gray Jr. “Can’t Get Next to You” is used as a mic battle between Ruffin and his successor Dennis Edwards. Several consecutive love songs in the first act - “I Could Never Love Another (After Loving You),” “(I Know) I’m Losing You” and “I Want a Love I Can See” - cover a lot of burgeoning relationships, marital and otherwise. Like “Tina” and “Jagged Little Pill,” “Ain’t Too Proud” likes to take the lyrics of its hit songs literally. Throughout the show, most of The Temptations prize friendship over everything else. Ultimately the longer and shorter serving Temps are used to underscore a key theme of “Ain’t Too Proud”: brotherhood and loyalty. The parade of dancing crooners can get crowded, but the show does everything it can to limit the clutter and confusion. “Ain’t Too Proud,” which ran on Broadway between 20 (interrupted by a long COVID shutdown), brought back together some of the creators of “Jersey Boys”: Director Des McAnuff, choreographer Serio Trujillo, lighting designer Howell Binkley and hair and wig designer Charles G. The story is told through singing, dance, storytelling and brief dialogues. Since April, there’s been “ Tina: The Tina Turner Musical” and “ Jagged Little Pill,” and now comes “ Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations.” But overload isn’t a problem since those earlier shows were well above average for the genre, and “Ain’t Too Proud,” running through June 4, turns out to be one of the best jukebox musicals of all time.įrom its opening moments when it smoothly slides from some heavy rhythmic organ chords into the subdued entrance of its title characters to a smashing rendition of “The Way You Do the Thing You Do,” “Ain’t Too Proud” is in constant motion. The Bushnell Performing Arts Center has hosted so many jukebox musicals lately that it’s surprising they haven’t turned their lobby into an all-night diner.
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