ANAHEIM, Calif. — Otis Williams, the last of the original Temptations, says each time he sees “Ain’t Too Proud,” the Broadway musical based on the lives of the legendary Motown vocal group, it feels as amazing as the first.
“I’m like a little boy waking up on Christmas,” says Williams, 81, in a video call shortly before the musical opened at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles where it runs through Jan. 1. “It’s a wonderful feeling.
“Like I always tell people, I’m a little country boy from Texarkana, Texas, running down the gravel roads with hot-water cornbread in my hand, and coveralls on, barefooted,” he says. “To come from that to where I am now and the way I live now, that’s a quantum leap.
