By Lorelei Reddin, Entertainments Editor / 11:51am Tuesday 3rd December 2013
IT’S a thriller without a plot.
In this show, returning for its fifth visit to Southampton, the hits just keep on coming.
It’s the next best thing to being able to go back in time for a concert by the King of Pop himself, except you get the mountains of hits from the entire back catalogue of Michael Jackson and the Jackson 5.
But this is very different from a jukebox musical, which normally follows one of two formats – either the Mamma Mia school of shoehorning the hits of Abba into a new narrative or the Jersey Boys style story of the Four Seasons themselves.
The producers of Thriller Live didn’t think they needed an original storyline here.
And in many ways they are right.
Quite apart from the question of how a musical of the controversial star would work, there’s not really time for any chit chat. This is more than two hours of back to back top class music.
It has more relevance than ever since the untimely death of Jackson, always having had the feel of a tribute.
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Source: dailyecho / MJ-Upbeat.com
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