Originally Posted by
RanRan79
This review doesn't shock me at all. The woman had just come off a two and a half year of a test solo run within a group. When the group became DRATS, Diana stepped her game up 100 percent. It's like when Flo was in the group, Diana was still very much Diane, one of the three girls from the projects. Once Flo left and the name changed, Diana really became DIANA. Mary and Cindy were now window dressing. Diana was often up there all alone. So had she left the group and gone on to a stage show that sucked, after all that work, something would have had to be wrong with her as an artist. I can only imagine how much more freeing it was for her to totally have all the focus, to not have to take Mary or Cindy into account of anything, and just do what she wanted to do.
I know there's the Grove show that I'm guessing was recorded for possible release. I have to assume that Diana's first show ever had to be recorded, if only because Gordy would have wanted to dissect it for improvements. I would certainly love to hear it. What I would really love to see is if any of those first shows were videoed. Now that would be something.
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