Quote Originally Posted by Spreadinglove21 View Post
At what point did Diana Ross and Mary Wilson [[once she was a solo act) each ditch the Vegas style orchestras for bands for their live shows?
it seems in 1980 or so that diana really altered her shows. there's the footage of her at the Forum in LA that was used in her tv special. basically there's a band and backing singers off stage and she performed in the round. no dancers or rollerskaters, no big backdrops or scenery, no mines, clowns, acrobats, cannons, etc lol. it also seems that there was much less additional material. She did have We are a family from Dreamgirls in the show. and Home from The Wiz, Maniac and Dirty Diana were in the act for a bit. of course she's most always kept some sort of LSTB segment in the act. but by and large, the songs that she was performing in the show from

mary seems to have kept her basic show well into the 80s. her debut at NYNY was essentially the same show as the farewell with MSS in 77. I know she kept singing The Way We Were and How Lucky Can You Get into the early 80s.