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'Ain't Too Proud' on Broadway: Great songs but this 'life and times of the Temptations' tells us little

"Ain't Too Proud," the frustrating biographical Broadway musical about Motown's hit-machine The Temptations, takes its title from a 1966 record, "Ain't Too Proud to Beg." But it could just as well mean "ain't too proud to change the line-up."

Between 1960 and today - the Temps are still going strong - there have been about 25 different members of the group. This is tricky for a juke-box musical. And it was never just a matter

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