Michael Jackson's iconic 1983 music video "Thriller" may become a stage musical. The theater producer Nederlander Organization officially announced Monday that it has acquired the rights to the video and plans to turn it into a Broadway show.Don't get me wrong, I owned the album...in fact, a copy still sits in a closet in a catch-all room in my home. When the movie 13 Going on 30 came out, I dusted off the ol' Thriller moves to impress my kid, just like a lot of other dorky moms probably did.
Rumors of the project first surfaced last fall on New York gossip pages. And because the Nederlander Organization controls Broadway in Chicago, such a project could have a pre-Broadway debut in Chicago.
"Could be," said James L. Nederlander, the coy lead producer, on Monday morning. "I'd like to."
To come to Chicago, after all, Nederlander would mostly have to do a deal just with himself. "We have a lot of disagreements," he said, "me, myself and I."
"Thriller," which has yet to acquire the rest of its creative team, will be at least a couple of years away. But Nederlander said that Jackson would be personally and fully involved in the creation of the show.
But this? A Broadway musical? Why?
Why why why?
Oh...I know...
3 comments:
One word: Eww.
Personally, I thought the last time Michael Jackson made good music was when he was still black: Off the Wall.
Now, you can't introduce children to his stuff without eventually trying to explain how he became such a creepy, freaked-out train-wreck (as if that's possible).
And you can't actually introduce children to him personally, because, well...eww.
We want to see a video of you doing the thriller moves!!...lol...
Fat chance!!
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