CELEBRATING Motown’s 50th anniversary year and the greatest Motown hits, West End hit show Dancing In The Streets returns once more to The Mayflower from 8 – 13 March 2010.

More than 40 years after Diana Ross and the Supremes, Martha and the Vandellas, Stevie Wonder and Smokey Robinson & the Miracles first arrived in the UK in the spring of 1965 with the Tamla Motown Revue Tour, Dancing In The Streets recreates the energy, style and music of the greatest stars of the Motown stable.

In the early 1960s, in the heavily industrialised town of Detroit - the heart of the US car industry – local kids were looking for a form of expression they could call their own. They found it at the Motown Hitsville studio. Berry Gordy, a successful songwriter with his first big hit, Reet Petite with Detroit born Jackie Wilson under his belt, decided to form his own record company with just an $800 loan.

So, in a timber frame bungalow at 2648 West Grand Boulevard, Detroit, Tamla Motown Records was born. During the years that followed, black soul music reached out to a white audience and the rest, as they say, is history... Motown became a prominent force in breaking down barriers around the world and equally as important, was responsible for producing some of the world’s most influential and enduring songs of the 20th century.

Dancing In The Streets will take you through the entire Motown repertoire, with classic hits including I Heard It Through The Grapevine, Baby Love, My Girl and Stop In the Name of Love.

Dancing in the Streets runs from March 8 to 13.

• Box office: 023 8071 1811 or visit mayflower.org.uk.