If you’ve heard good reports about MJ the Musical, believe them all and multiply everything by a hundred. As a music-and-dance spectacular, the show is as exhilarating as any Jackson produced while he was alive. The sets, the costumes, the choreography and the live band deliver an amazing collective punch.
When he removes his black trilby he looks like Rishi Sunak at a karaoke bar
The script, by Lynn Nottage, takes us into Jackson’s twisted personal history.

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