MJ: THE MUSICAL - News & Discussion Thread

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Posted: 8/10/21 at 10:10am

Full casting has been announced.

https://www.playbill.com/article/full-casting-announced-for-broadways-michael-jackson-musical-mj

Quentin Earl Darrington, Whitney Bashor, and more will join the previously announced Myles Frost on stage in MJ on Broadway when it opens this fall. Several performers had been announced prior to the shutdown but are only now being confirmed as remaining in the cast.

Darrington will play Joseph Jackson and Rob, with Bashor as Rachel, Gabriel Ruiz as Alejandro, Antoine L. Smith as Berry Gordy and Nick, Joey Sorge as Dave, John Edwards as Jackie Jackson, Ayana George as Katherine Jackson, Apollo Levine as Quincy Jones and Tito Jackson, Tavon Olds-Sample as Michael, Lamont Walker II as Jermaine Jackson, and Zelig Williams as Marlon Jackson.

Rounding out the ensemble are Raymond Baynard, Kali May Grinder, Oyoyo Joi, Carina-Kay Louchiey, Renni Anthony Magee, Aaron James McKenzie, Aramie Payton, Kamille Upshaw, Ryan VanDenBoom, and Darius Wright.

https://www.theatermania.com/broadway/news/broadways-michael-jackson-musical-sets-cast_92604.html

MJ as a book by Lynn Nottage, direction and choreography by Christopher Wheeldon, and songs from Jackson's extensive catalogue of music. Plot details of the production have been kept largely under wraps for most of the show's development, but MJ reportedly focuses on the singer's preparations for his Dangerous tour in 1992.

Updated On: 8/10/21 at 10:10 AM