The audience was dancing to the Motown sound tonight at the Westport Levitt Pavilion for the Performing Arts as Dr. K’s Motown Revue performed. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo

Ivery Bell, a lead vocalist with Dr. K’s Motown Revue, leads audience members tonight in “My Girl” at the Westport Levitt Pavilion for the Performing Arts. The 1964 standard recorded by The Temptations for the Gordy (Motown) label became a number one hit in 1965. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo

When Ivery Bell, lead vocalist with Dr. K’s Motown Revue, jumped off the Levitt Pavilion stage tonight and asked for audience help in singing “My Girl,” he had plenty of takers. WestportNow.com video

Dr. K’s Motown Revue performs tonight at the Levitt Pavilion for the Performing Arts. A slight mist did not dampen the audience enthusiasm for the group. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo

There was an opening reception tonight at the Westport Library’s Great Hall for “Landscapes/Cityscapes: 20 Years of Vistas by Herm Freeman.” The exhibit, which runs until Oct. 6, explores the Westport artist’s “meandering, spirited path” of his varied landscape painting styles over the last two decades. It includes his early work with an attention to detail to later exuberant, playful pieces flooded with color and bold shapes. With him is the library’s Chris Timmons, the exhibit curator. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Phyllis Groner for WestportNow.com

The Westport Library has abandoned a costly, futuristic-looking expansion plan in favor of a relatively modest renovation that would include a new main level, centered entrance facing Jesup Green, the Planning and Zoning (P&Z) Commission was told tonight.

Attorney Larry Weisman tonight tells the P&Z about the library’s revised expansion plan. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com

No price tag was mentioned for the scaled back plan, presented by attorney Lawrence Weisman. Expansion of the library has been in works for years, with various costs mentioned at various times of $65 million, $40 million, and then $25 million.

Tonight’s application, known as an 8-24 report, asked for approval to use the town-owned Jesup Green to create two new walkways to the new entrance, stairs, a new patio, and an expanded patio as part of the revised renovation plan.

The P&Z voted unanimously to issue a positive report on the new application, just as it did more than two years ago (see WestportNow Feb. 28, 2014) on a previous, more ambitious plan.

Westporter Dodie Pettit, wife of the late Broadway performer Kevin Gray, tonight led a Westport Levitt Pavilion for the Performing Arts tribute to her husband. In addition to Pettit, the program included performances by a number of Broadway performers as well as students of Pettit and Gray. Gray, a 1976 Staples High School graduate who became the youngest actor to play the title role in “The Phantom of the Opera” on Broadway, died Feb. 11, 2013 after suffering a heart attack at home. He was 54. A number of his Staples classmates attended, in Westport for the 40th class reunion. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo

Mallory Gladman (l) and Kerry Gibbons were among performers at the Levitt Pavilion tribute tonight to the late Westport Broadway performer Kevin Gray. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo