PROJECT TYPE: world premiere musical about Florence Ballard founding member of The Primettes later to be known as The Supremes. The first time Florence Ballard’s story has been told. You may know ...
One midsummer eve in a Negro-ghetto backyard in Detroit, Diana Ross, then 14, Mary Wilson, 14, and Florence Ballard, 15, made their first profession al appearance. They sang Your Cheat ing Heart, and ...
Wilson’s quest to get the U.S. Postal Service to issue a stamp to celebrate Ballard, a founding star of The Supremes, has gained momentum. (Photo: The Supremes in Hilton Hotel, the Netherlands, 1965.
Forget the sequins and feather boas. Unlike the glitzy 1981 Broadway show Dreamgirls, Don Horn’s new musical, Flo, which he wrote with help from his friend, the late Mary Wilson, and directed for ...
*On this day in 1964, The Supremes went into Motown Studios in Detroit with in-house writing/production trio Holland-Dozier-Holland and recorded what would become their first U.S. No. 1 single, “Where ...
The Supremes reigned, well, supreme in the 1960s, and today they remain one of the most iconic girl groups (and musical acts, period) ever to grace the music industry. Original members Florence ...