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leapinarmadillo · 2 months ago

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i'm judging everyone, especially self proclaimed mj fans, who says the 2nd act Thriller staging was amazing in mj the musical. i was pleasantly surprised that the first act only had a snippet of Thriller within a medley (which btw WBSS was great). that was nice. we all know Thriller, so referencing it almost in passing like that felt like a nice nod and good use of time. well that got completely undone by the 2nd act. which i thought was in horrible taste. why are we dragging this legend's corpse around like this. they thought they did something really significant with the themes there. they thought they came up with some artsy excuse to (over)use Thriller. 1. it was incoherent 2. even if you can justify it, i don't care, i thought it was way too dark (in a serious, unfun way) and disrespectful to michael

#the 'evil' version of the Dangerous album cover. awful #zombie michaels. awful. the role of the father. awful.#i had so many issues with this fuckass show #and another thing #in the act 1 Thriller segment they did some choreo that included some of Thee iconic choreo #i think they added in new choreo and changed things a little and that's fine whatever #people want to see the iconic choreography #especially if you're a fan of mj you wanna see THEE choreography #so it was nice that they did that #the 2nd act thriller didn't do any original choreo as far as i could tell #honestly i was distracted thinking about how bad what i was watching was. but i at least didn't notice any of the iconic stuff in that scene #and i do know the thriller choreo pretty well at this point #just. god. at intermission i had critiques but i was entertained and there was some stuff i liked #the 2nd act was pure nonsense. it was boring and i didn't really like what they did with the songs and dances #like why do Bad at all. if you're gonna do Smooth Criminal for god sakes hit the original choreo just ONCE #and put all the dancers in suits. are you stupid #plus some choreo was chronologically inaccurate. otw michael doing stuff from dangerous/history etc #AND THE J5 CHOREO MADE ME SO MAD. DO NOT INSULT MY BOYS LIKE THAT.#it was surprisingly repetitive simple and stupid looking #that aint right!!!!!#whatever. there were some good performances i mostly just take issue with the writing #also katharine singing I'll Be There to michael. hm. could it be that she's still alive so we're changing the narrative there...#the pills thing was way overdone. no one literally NO ONE gaf about the financial issues or the mtv crew omfg. who cares #it's like they didn't understand why people would go to an mj show. why people love him? it's the dancing and singing. that's it.#agghh i have more thoughts about this.

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