Review: MJ THE MUSICAL at KC Music Hall
by Alan Portner
- May 8, 2024
Michael is Roman Banks with a spot-on almost miraculous personification of the Ing of Pop. The dancing, the voice, the persona. They are all there. Banks offers a remarkable performance.
Review: MJ THE MUSICAL at Des Moines Performing Arts
by DC Felton
- May 2, 2024
What did our critic If you 'Wanna be Startin' Something,' then check out Des Moines Performing Arts; not only did they recently announce their 2024/2025 season, but they are not stopping there. This week, they are bringing the hottest show of the 2021/2022 Broadway Season. 'MJ: The Musical' opened to a packed house on Tuesday night. From the moment the show started, the buzz continued growing, and there was an immediate standing ovation at the end of the show. What was the buzz about? think of MJ THE MUSICAL at Des Moines Performing Arts?
Interview: J. Daughtry of MJ THE MUSICAL at Broadway Across America
by Alan Portner
- Apr 17, 2024
I remember seeing a remarkable, ten-year-old Michael Jackson with his brothers on Sunday’s Ed Sullivan Show in the late 1960s. He was a heck of a performer even then. It seems remarkable that the man that little boy became passed away more than fifteen years ago. More unbelievably, Michael would be eligible this year for Social Security and Medicare.
Review: MJ - THE MUSICAL Moonwalks Into OC's Segerstrom Center
by Michael Quintos
- Mar 23, 2024
An overall resounding triumph despite its insistence on side-stepping some of the more salacious scandals associated with its subject, pop star Michael Jackson—MJ - THE MUSICAL is a genuinely entertaining and nostalgic show that purposely aims to celebrate the creative, if misunderstood genius behind some of the biggest hits in pop music history.
Review: MJ at the Eccles Theater is Iconic
by Tyler Hinton
- Feb 28, 2024
The national tour of MJ, now playing at the Eccles Theater, is a restrained, realistic snapshot of one brief but significant period in Michael Jackson’s life that serves as a springboard for an entertaining, if meandering, realization of iconic music and images from his career.
Review: MJ THE MUSICAL at Orpheum Theatre
by Steve Murray
- Feb 2, 2024
Fifteen years after MJ’s sudden death and his legacy continues strong with MJ The Musical, winner of four Tony’s. A sure-fire crowd pleaser, this jukebox musical includes Jackson’s biggest hits stunningly directed and choreographed by Tony winner Christopher Wheeldon.
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