Thursday, November 12, 2009
Music / Theater
Cirque du Soleil Wants to Make Michael Jackson Musical
Posted
by Benjamin Sutton
on Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:08 AM
Well, this should come as no surprise after Cirque du Soleil's Beatles and Elvis Presley stage musical-acrobatics-circus spectacles (
Love and
Viva Elvis), but the
Hollywood Reporter (which was
just sold, btw) reports that the Montreal-based employer of Olympic gymnasts is doing everything in its power to get the folks in charge of Michael Jackson's estate to sign off on a Las Vegas musical based on the late King of Pop's music and choreography.
Cirque is still working on getting the Elvis show up and running, but after it opens they'll be sitting down with the Jackson folks to hammer out a deal. HR states the obvious: "The money involved is said to be astronomical." In other "Michael Jackson musical experience" news, AEG Live, the group behind the This Is It concert series, wants to take that show out on the road—you know, the show that essentially killed Jackson and wouldn't really make any sense without its focal point.
Tags: Michael Jackson, Cirque du Soleil, money, AEG Live, musicals, circus, acrobatics