This Is Good Of Kind, Girls, But It Is Not MY Kind!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                              I mean, darlings, everyone knows "Beat It!" and "Thriller," but if one is not a Michael Jackson fan, after those, who cares?  Which is pretty much how I felt about the "MJ" musical I saw at the Neil Simon Theatre, which will always be The Alvin to me.

                                                All the actors play their roles respectably well, but the story is highly sanitized, which I expected. What I did not expect was that director and choreographer Christopher Wheeldon's work would be the saving grace of this show.  But then, he is from the world of ballet.  Which is where I think a new choreographic infusion should come from for Broadway.  Look at Justin Peck. Need I say more????????????

                                                    The dancing in the show is exceptional and fine compensation for the turgid book scenes, and the overwhelming length--two hours and fifty minutes, plus an intermission--of this show.  It could have been cut by a third and still made all the points it wanted.

                                                         I am certainly not telling anyone to avoid this show, but I am not about to sell it, either.  If one gets the opportunity, as David and I did, then by all means go.  

                                                          But don't break the piggy bank for this one, darlings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!