For the most part, the show brackets out the controversies that bedevil Jackson’s legacy, but it doesn’t demand that we do the same.
Roman Banks earns audience ovations as MJ in the first national tour of the Michael Jackson musical, written by Lynn Nottage. A patron rocked an impressively just-so mustache and black velvet jacket with gold braiding at the Buell Theatre for Wednesday’s opening night of the first national tour of “MJ: The Musical” .
Roman Banks as ‘MJ’ and Mary Kate Moore as‘Rachel’ in the first national tour of “MJ: The Musical” at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. “MJ” opens onto a rehearsal studio, with the musical’s ace ensemble milling about stretching, setting up, waiting for the man himself. All the while, Buell patrons mill about, too, making their noisy way to seats.
The MTV documentary crew wants to witness Jackson’s creative process at a time when rumors of child sexual abuse are muted but will soon start to swirl. Jackson shares thoughts about his long relationship to music-making: from kid stardom with Berry Gordy and Motown with four of his brothers; to solo work with Quincy Jones on “Off the Wall”; to striking out as his own producer on “Thriller.
To the aggravation of his own manager, Dave , Rob and maybe the amazing dancers, the King of Pop revises and re-envisions and revises some more. Numbers get inserted and then get removed. He obsesses about a special effect called the “toaster lift” that he imagines catapulting him like a king of pop tart upwards at the concert’s start. The costs and paraphernalia of the tour balloon. The pressures mount and, as they do, his father and mother make appearances.
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