Ain't Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations at Imperial Theatre

As befits a musical about the Temptations, the most infectiously rhythmic of chart-topping R&B groups, Ain't Too Proud keeps time in popular. We don’t mean that solely in terms of a beat that makes you feel like dancing. Of course, as you watch this latest entry in Broadway’s ever-expanding jukebox musical sweepstakes, you will no doubt have your legs twitching, as if from muscle memory. That’s the urge being translated with such incredible grace by those five talented men on the stage, Platonic ideals of stepping high and looking fine. But it is also true that time, unforgiving and unstoppable, is cannily presented as the shaping element in Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations, which opened on Thursday under the shrewd direction of Des McAnuff, with sensational choreography by Sergio Trujillo. And what’s more, come down to the fan favorite Imperial Theatre in New York City for an unmissable night of elite entertainment!