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Exhilarating: MJ the Musical reviewed

Plus: a gripping new dramatisation of a Dostoevsky story at the Marylebone Theatre

Sets, costumes, choreography and live band deliver an amazing collective punch: MJ the Musical. Credit: Johan Persson  
issue 06 April 2024

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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