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Evening Standard
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Nick Curtis

MJ the Musical at Prince Edward Theatre review: a ravishing spectacle if you ignore the elephant in the room

The best and worst thing about this exhilarating Michael Jackson musical is that it *almost* makes you forget the elephant in the room.

We’re taken by Myles Frost’s spellbinding ‘MJ’ on a hectic ride through the King of Pop’s backstory and back catalogue as he prepares for his Dangerous tour in 1992 – when he was a painkiller-addicted, chimp-befriending, nose-whittled oddball who had not yet been publicly accused of sexually abusing children.

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