When I first saw the posters for MJ: the Musical, I marvelled at the producers in daring to bring us a jukebox extravaganza about such a controversial figure.
When I first saw the posters for MJ: the Musical as I was getting on a train at London 's Charing Cross, I couldn't quite believe it. I marvelled at the brass neck of its producers, The Michael Jackson Estate, in daring to bring us a biographical jukebox music-and-dance extravaganza about an artist still so dogged by a worrying reputation.
It was only after Dangerous World had wrapped that the wheels started to fall off the Jackson juggernaut. In 1993, the father of 13-year-old Jordan Chandler accused Jackson of sexually abusing his son. Then in 2003 Jackson was charged with child molestation by cancer survivor Gavin Arvizo. Jackson settled with the Chandlers and he was acquitted in the Arvizo case.
The innocent text, 'So what does everyone think of the question of whether to go to MJ: the Musical?' kicked off an 84-message fight on my girlfriends' WhatsApp group earlier this week. The singer with the Robson family - Wade detailed the vitiligo markings he saw on Jackson's genitalia when he claimed to have shared his bed as a child in a 2019 documentary
They insisted they would be more than happy to go to the musical because they love his music - and the hits of the Jackson 5 - and respect the reviews: not just those of the established theatre critics' but, more importantly for them, the thousands of enthusiastic reviews online. Michael Jackson with Bubbles, his chimpanzee best friend he bought from a Texas research facility in the 1980sAnd who didn't watch the 2019 documentary and want to block their eyes and ears at the lurid details put forward by Wade Robson and James Safechuck about the vitiligo markings they saw on Jackson's genitalia when they claimed to have shared his bed as children? Yes, their claims were initially thrown out in that 2005 trial which saw Jackson cleared of all charges, but they look...
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