Pri and Joy: The Marv Gaye Mil- The Lyric- From the secret diary of Anna Gordy Gaye the greatt Motown love story never told: Pri & Joy. The tumultuo and passnate journey of one of mic's most trigug power upl, inic R&B sger Marv Gaye and Anna Gordy - who jt happened to be a songwrer/producer and the sister of Motown founr Berry Gordy - to the Moll Performg Arts Center at The Lyric Baltimore. This new mil featur 28 songs om the legendary Motown talog, cludg major hs om the "Prce of Soul" himself.
Contents:
- REVIEW: ‘PRI & JOY: THE MARV GAYE MIL’ AT THE NATNAL THEATRE
- PRI & JOY: THE MARV GAYE MIL
- PRI AND JOY: THE MARV GAYE MIL AT THE LYRIC
- PRI AND JOY: THE MARV GAYE MIL AT CHIGO THEATRE
REVIEW: ‘PRI & JOY: THE MARV GAYE MIL’ AT THE NATNAL THEATRE
* the marvin gaye musical pride and joy *
Pri & Joy is a mil that tells the ltle known love story of Anna Gordy Gaye (January 28, 1922 – January 31, 2014) and the legendary and inic R&B sger, Marv Gaye (April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984). Featurg 28 songs om Gaye’s Motown talog, the mil stars Jarran Me as Gaye his early years, and Chae Stephen his later years. The challenge stg a mil like this is to fd an actor that looks like Marv Gaye and n sg.
Krystal Drake plays Anna Gordy Gaye and Kourtney Lenton plays sger Tammi Terrell. In bpic style, this mil followed Gaye om his early years at Motown, sgg popular R&B ballads centered on peace and love; to his prott songs (rerd over Motown founr Berry Gordy’s objectns), to his later Grammy ws, and last days.
PRI & JOY: THE MARV GAYE MIL
The spe of the mil centered on Gaye and Anna’s urtship, spe their 17-year age difference. In 1959, Gaye was sgg the group Harvey and the New Moonglows and Anna was the owner of Anna Rerds.
PRI AND JOY: THE MARV GAYE MIL AT THE LYRIC
She disdaed Gaye at first. When Gaye tried to date Anna, her rponse was: “I don’t date the help! Sandman”, and after he ptured Anna’s heart, “Pri and Joy” (Gaye dited that song to her).
PRI AND JOY: THE MARV GAYE MIL AT CHIGO THEATRE
Melanee Felton, Kiko and Cherri Black harmonized well together as The Marvelett, an early scene wh Gaye at dms. ” Gaye’s chemistry wh Terrell ed ictn his marriage, g Gaye to pot out to Anna that he was “ love wh the mic we make…that’s the stage, we’re actors. At this pot his life, Gaye’s foc was prott albums, featurg thoughtful numbers like “What’s Gog On?
” Gaye also ventured to the unfiltered soul of songs like “I Want You. ” The highlight of this mil perd for Gaye was “Sexual Healg” (for which he won Bt R&B Male Vol at the 25th Grammy Awards); Stephen killed the vols and stage prence as he sang that and the other tun. Hemphill and Producers Quent Perry and Keia Perry-Farr have created a magic trip down the mil memory lane of an parable artist–Marv Gaye.