The Four Tops in 1985; Aaron Rapoport/Corbis/Getty ImagesSole surviving original Four Tops member Duke Fakir is collaborating with Broadway producer Paul
The Four Tops in 1985; Aaron Rapoport/Corbis/Getty Images
Sole surviving original
Duke Fakir is collaborating with Broadway producer
Paul Lambert on a new musical focusing on the Motown legends, an “insider” source tells Page Six.
Fakir and Lambert are hoping that the show, which will be named
I’ll Be There! after The Four Tops’ chart-topping 1966 hit “Reach Out I’ll Be There,” will be ready to premiere in early 2022.
“They just did casting calls in L.A. and are now doing rehearsals,” the insider tells Page Six.
The production is reportedly planning to launch with a brief run in Detroit, which would make it the first Motown-themed musical to debut in the Motor City. A source tells Page Six that plans also are in the works for the musical to have a run at London’s West End.
Jean-Pierre Bacri, pictured with Anne Alvaro in The Taste of Others (2000), ‘could mope and hope with equal conviction’. Photograph: AF archive/Alamy
Any admirer of French cinema over the past 40 years will have developed a soft spot for the hangdog looks and gruff, rumpled charm of the actor Jean-Pierre Bacri, who has died aged 69 of cancer. In the tradition of Walter Matthau, he brought sympathetic comic shading to even the most irredeemable worrywart or miseryguts. His speciality was a saturnine impatience with life that was nonetheless susceptible to glimmers of optimism; he could mope and hope with equal conviction. The French president, Emmanuel Macron, praised his “laconic and sensitive humanity”, calling him “the tenderest of our grouches”.
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