By Mitchell Peters, Los Angeles
“Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour” returns to North America for 40 more dates next year, looking to sell another 120,000 tickets
“Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour,” which recently became the ninth-top-grossing tour in history, will return to North American arenas in 2014, Billboard can exclusively reveal.
“We’re in the process of fiercely booking it,” Cirque du Soleil senior VP of touring shows Finn Taylor says. “We’re mostly trying to do new markets so we can bring the show to new audiences, but there are some repeats of our more successful markets from the first tour.”
Created in a partnership between the Michael Jackson estate and Cirque, “Immortal” will visit small to full-size arenas in the United States, Canada, Mexico and perhaps South America, beginning in March. The Cirque-promoted North American tour will perform in about 40 cities, but specific routing details weren’t available at press time.
John Branca, who serves as co-executor of the Jackson estate with John McClain, says the upcoming “Immortal” performances could be slightly different from what audiences have already seen.
“I could see retooling the show in some ways and switching up some elements, but overall the format would stay very similar,” Branca says. “There are certain numbers we might redo, but I don’t think we would change the entire format.”
Source: Billboard / MJ-Upbeat.com
