Thriller Live! Concert, with Jackson Songs, to Tour U.K.

Thriller Live! - a concert featuring the songs of Michael Jackson - will tour the U.K.

Timed to coincide with the 25th anniversary of Jackson's legendary album "Thriller," the tour will kick off at the Hexagon Theatre in Reading on May 6th and play 25 more UK venues, according to Whatsonstage.com.

Thriller Live! will be seen in Birmingham, Basingstoke, Brighton, Croydon, Bournemouth, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Nottingham, Southend, Manchester, Gateshead, Liverpool, Glasgow, Leicester, Dartford, Cardiff, Blackpool, Sheffield, Bradford, Oxford, Bristol, London (Hammersmith Apollo), Grimsby, Brentwood and Cambridge, where the tour will conclude on June 3rd, 2007.

The show will feature Jackson songs such as the title one, "I Want You Back," "Earth Song" and "Blame It on the Boogie."  It will include 30 singers, dancers and a gospel choir.  No casting has been announced.

Flying Music, the group that has produced the U.K. hits The Rat Pack and Dancing in the Streets, will produce Thriller Live! LaVelle Smith Jr. (Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation tour) will choreograph.  The show was previously seen last summer in a West End tryout at the Dominion Theatre.

A thirteen-time Grammy Award-winner, the iconic Michael Jackson has been a music superstar since the 1970s.