Posted at 2:07 p.m., Thursday, December 6, 2007
Four Tops, Spinners join Pops at Blaisdell Friday, Sat.
Advertiser Staff
The Four Tops and The SpinnersHonolulu Symphony Toyota Pops Series – Motown Christmas
Matt Catingub, conductor
8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 7, 8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 8
Blaisdell Arena
$14, $32, $47, $57, $79 (including service fees). The Honolulu Symphony offers a 20 percent discount to seniors and students.
Military tickets: $8.50, $17.50, $25, $30, $41
Box Office: 792-2000 (days) or 524-0815 ext. 245 (evenings). Tickets are also for sale at Ticketmaster outlets and Times Supermarkets.
The Four Tops and The Spinners will join the Honolulu Symphony Pops for a Motown Christmas on Dec. 7 and 8.
Founded in 1954 while the four original members attended high school in Detroit, The Four Tops are among Motown's greatest and most-beloved hit-makers. The Four Tops are also one of Motown's most enduring groups, having sung together for more than four decades until the death of Lawrence Payton as a result of cancer in 1997. The original members also included Abdul "Duke" Fakir, Levi Stubbs and Renaldo "Obie" Benson, who passed away in 2005. The group continues to tour today with original member Duke Fakir, along with Ronnie McNair, Lawrence Roquel Payton, Jr. (son of original member Lawrence Payton), and Theo Peoples (a former member of The Temptations).
The Spinners have acquired 12 gold records, with hits on top of both Pop and R&B charts, and they are one of the few groups who can boast of four lead singers. In this incarnation, original members Bobbie Smith, Henry Fambrough and Pervis Jackson are joined onstage by lead singer Charlton Washington and high tenor Harold "Spike" Bonhart.
Motown Christmas concertgoers are invited to bring a toy to donate to the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots Program.
Toy donors receive a 20 percent discount coupon off their next Symphony ticket purchase.
