'Ain't Too Proud' to end West End run early

The jukebox musical features over 30 songs, including “My Girl,” and “If You Don’t Know Me By Now”, from the Motown chart-topping group The Temptations.

Ain't Too Proud have announced that the show will end its run at the Prince Edward Theatre on Sunday 17 September, earlier than originally planned.

The Tony Award-winning musical follows the journey of the Motown music sensations, The Temptations. Full of their signature dance moves and electrifying talent, it also shows the personal and political conflicts that threatened to break the group apart.

It stars Cameron Bernard Jones as Melvin Franklin, Kyle Cox as Paul Williams, Sifiso Mazibuko as Otis Williams, Tosh Wanogho-Maud as David Ruffin and Mitchell Zhangazha as Eddie Kendricks.

Evonnee Bentley-Holder, Natalia Brown, Ryan Carter, Hannah Fairclough, Christopher Gopaul, Daniel Haswell, Naomi Katiyo, Akmed Junior Khemalai, Holly Liburd, Darnell Mathew-James, Simeon Montague, Posi Morakinyo, Sadie-Jean Shirley, Michael James Stewart, Toyan Thomas-Browne, Dylan Turner and Kevin Yates complete the cast.

Ain't Too Proud reunites Tony and Olivier Award winning choreographer Sergio Trujilio with two-time Tony Award winning director Des McAnuff, whose previous collaborations include the Tony Award winning hit show Jersey Boys.

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Photo credit: Tosh Wanogho-Maud, Mitchell Zhangazha, Sifiso Mazibuko, Cameron Bernard Jones, Kyle Cox (Photo courtesy of Johan Persson)