"Hitzville: The Show" is playing inside the V2 Theater at the Miracle Mile Shops in Planet Hollywood. This Motown Revue is a greatest hits show of all of the music that is loved for an entire era. "Hitzville" takes you on a journey through time with the best of Motown, going from town to town, and featuring the music of Tina Turner, The Drifters, Diana Ross, the Temptations, the Four Tops, and many more. The show says that it stars Jin-Jin Reeves, but the fact of the matter is that all of the performers and musicians in this production are stars. Everyone has a featured spot in the show, and everyone has a chance to shine...and they do.

The music of "Hitzville" is legendary, and every song delights us and manifests a memory for us. It touches our hearts, our minds, and makes us want to dance. There is something comforting about knowing every song that is being played. The familiarity puts us at ease. We can sit back, relax, and enjoy. We don’t really have to think; we just feel and remember.

The show is great in its simplicity. It is just good music from beginning to end. The production has bounced around different venues and tours in recent years. They have been in four or five places here in town, in addition to touring. I hope that they have found a home at the V2 space. There is not another show in town like it, and so it will hopefully do well.

The five-piece band adds an enormous amount to the success of this show. It is a dynamic that the production needs. I wish that the musicians were individually introduced so that we could show our appreciation for each of them.

The show is segmented with two different casts---one male and one female. So that the progression of the night proceeds with the male group coming out and doing (for example) the Drifters, and then the women do a Diana Ross medley; followed by the men with the Four Tops, etc. This format sets up an odd choppiness and each segment has to have a life of its own, rather than one segment feeding into another. It is problematic when you look at the overall structure of the entire production and miss out on the dynamic that takes you from beginning to end.

Jin-Jin Reeves is a wonderful performer and has worked with all of the great groups that are out there. She has done film and television. She dances. She does it all. Though, as far as being listed as the star...well, I’m sure that there was a reason for that, but the burden of performance was fairly well distributed, and every performer up there was indeed a star.

"Hitzville" is a crowd pleaser. With great music, great singers, and great musicians; this show will delight most audience from beginning to end.


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