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 First National Tour Presented By Broadway In Chicago
by Rachel Weinberg - Aug 10, 2023
Is MJ a fun and entertaining musical that treats audiences to many of Michael Jackson’s iconic hits? Yes. Does MJ also demonstrate why bio jukebox musicals are tricky? Yes. In the musical, MJ emphatically tells fictional MTV reporter Rachel that he wants to be remembered for his music. But can the art be separated from the artist, or are the two intertwined in all their messy, complicated ways? I don’t have an answer to that question, but I think MJ struggles with making the struggles and demons of a complex person — the real-life Michael Jackson — seem simplistic.
Review Roundup: BRIGADOON, Starring Kelli O'Hara and Patrick Wilson, Opens at City Center
by Review Roundups - Nov 16, 2017
New York City Center brings the Lerner and Loewe classic, Brigadoon, out of the Highlands mist for the musical's 70th anniversary in a star-studded concert production that unites celebrated talents from the worlds of stage and screen. The show just celebrated its gala opening last night - let's see what the critics had to say below!