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| - First off, this is a show that I believe it depends on a persons individual expectations to decide how great this show is. Judge for yourself.
Now, I am a die hard MJ fan through and through so I know my expectations. I was extremely excited to see this show up until it first began. Immediately, you can tell the production is completely low budget. If you are fine with that then you will love it. I, however; was distracted by some of the simple things like some of the cheap costumes. Also, a few of the background dancers were phenomenal, but others... how did they get the job? If you see the show there are two blond haired girls. One rocks and the other one falls completely flat. Then some were off beat and just not into it. Yet another distraction.
I love cover bands so I can say the band did their job. They really played the music. I could have went just to hear them play.
Now on to my main issue. The impersonator who played MJ made me uncomfortable. When I think of watching MJ himself, I think about standing on my feet the whole time feeling his energy. I felt this guy took his impersonation too far at times to a level of mockery. First of all, he looked like he belonged in The Mask with Jim Carey. People always say evil things about the real MJ's face, but this guy didn't even capture the MJ look. When I showed my daughter his picture, she immediately said he does not look like MJ. His face was clownish. Then his moves. While he is a great dancer, he is not the best MJ dancer I have ever saw. If you are impersonating him, do it all the way right. He made these nasty vomit faces and did some expressions MJ would never do. His pelvic thrust was all wrong LOL. He kept repeating a lot of the same dances like he didn't study Mike hard enough. He also mocked MJ by pretending to cry as MJ has in certain touching songs and then laughing about it. Like those moments were real from MJ so why start laughing?
Anyway, to sum it up, if you are a real die hard MJ fan, certain things you may see will annoy you. If you just love the music, then this might be an awesome show to see. I would have preferred a show where normal people covered for him not this impersonator. Just dress like him, sing like him and dance his moves. All the extras were distractions.
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