Michael Jackson This Is It Premiere My Own Experience

I live in Utah in a rather small town , i still bought my ticket for the 10 pm Michael Jackson This Is I Premiere Showing on that 1st Sunday they were on sale. I did not want to risk missing it small town or not, nothing would stop me from saying goodbye to The King Of Pop.

So finally after 2 weeks that's seemed to never end , Oct 27th arrived. My wife got the tickets during the day from the ticket machine and we were ready to roll. We left the house early around 9pm as the cinema is only 10 minutes away, we arrived all excited around 9:15 , bought our popcorn and coke and went to theater 11.


Now this is the part that shocked and surprised me, as we walked in i was expecting a bunch of people in their 30's to 50's , you know vintage Michael Jackson fans, boy was i wrong. I walk in and see tons of kids who could not be more than 12-17 dancing to about 3 different little hand held stereos playing Michael Jackson's top songs.

Some were wearing Michael Jackson T-shirts, Fedoras, 80's sunglasses, even a single glittering white glove. They were all dancing to the music happy and excited to be there, there were maybe 5% adults there to be honest.

I was so proud that even in death The King Of Pop had such a young following , his music and talent was truly ageless and timeless.

During the movie every time a number was over, the packed theater audience would applaud wildly, just like a real concert. It felt like a true concert event.

Now about the actual movie i thought it was done quite well, it started by showing some of the dancers who got the job, so emotionally saying how honored they were to be part of the tour. I mean they were in tears or just could not express how excited they were top be picked.

Later it showed the process through which they picked a small group of dancers, out of 100's of candidates. The amount of talent that was there from all over the world was astounding, im sure it was a tough choice.

The rest of the feature showed Michael Jackson performing his biggest hits on split screens simultaneously, he was wearing different outfits and dancing away. It showed him behind the scenes involved in every creative aspect, you could tell who was calling the shots.

He was very supportive of his crew and told them it was all about the audience and about the love. I have seen Michael Jackson Live 3 times in my life, his rehearsals were great by normal standards but it seemed to me like he was holding back a lot as far as his dancing. His moves were not polished and he skipped many big steps in his famous Billie Jean routine.

I guess if one is rehearsing 12 hours a day , you cant go all out so its understandable. It was still an amazing event and i am glad one day i can tell my kids about it. I was both happy and sad as i realized this is the last new footage of him performing i will ever see. I always regret never getting a chance to see him perform Unbreakable.

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Adam Lambert Calls Michael Jackson's Musical Style 'Groundbreaking'

MTV Reports Adam Lambart was highly influenced by Michael Jackson , here is Todays Michael Jackson News from MTV


During season 8 of "American Idol," Adam Lambert became known for blurring boundaries, mixing elements of pop, '70s glam rock, metal, musical theater and more into his live performances. It's just that capacity to take risks that he so admires in Michael Jackson, whose "This Is It" documentary hits theaters on October 28.




"[H]is music so groundbreaking because he really brought a lot of rock into [it]," Lambert, who grew up listening to MJ and watching his videos, told MTV News. "He had initially set himself up with this R&B presence and he brought so much rock into it and I think it was really groundbreaking how he fused all those different styles together in a pop format. I'm very inspired by that musically."

With "Idol" behind him and his debut album coming soon, the 27-year-old singer released a fiery music video for the power ballad "Time For Miracles" on Wednesday (October 21). When we chatted with him earlier, Lambert not only praised MJ's music but also his iconic music videos.



"Visually, his videos were, like, you could not compete with Michael Jackson," Lambert said with a smile. "He was the one. He just took a lot of chances and really went full into his thematic choices and I'm inspired by that as well."



The singer professed to be looking forward to the premiere of "This Is It" for more than one reason: it will also mark a premiere for his career as well. "Time For Miracles" appears on the soundtrack for the upcoming big-budget disaster flick, "2012," and the trailer will run before Jackson's doc.



"That will be like a double-whammy for me that night, seeing what was left of his legacy and myself to do a little pre-show action," he said. "It'll be really cool."



Don't miss "Michael Jackson's This Is It" Premiere Special, airing on MTV and VH1 on Tuesday, October 27 at 8:30 p.m. ET! "Michael Jackson's This Is It" opens in a limited engagement on October 27 and wide on October 28. 

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Michael Jackson's 'This Is It' What Was Its True Meaning?

The Los Angeles Times has posted an interesting piece of Michael Jackson News, it seems the the title for the comback tour " This Is It", had a few more meanings than most people know.

In March, Michael Jackson called a press conference to announce what would have been his swan song as a touring artist: the 50-date concert series at London’s O2 Arena, “This Is It.”
“These will be my final show performances …in London,” said Jackson, haltingly, before a throng of screaming fans in what would be his final public appearance. “This is it! When I say this is it, it really means this is it!” He laughed.

Over the intervening seven months, and with the singer’s untimely death in June, that title has taken on a grave alternate meaning. And now with the release of the feature documentary “Michael Jackson’s This Is It” on Oct. 28, as well as a new song titled “This Is It” that was leaked earlier this month, that terse, three-word title is more front-of-mind than ever.

But according to Jackson’s closest collaborators in the last months of his life -- Kenny Ortega, director of both the “This Is It” concerts and movie, and Travis Payne, associate director/choreographer of “This Is It” -- the moniker came to mean a number of different things throughout the development of what would have been Jackson’s return to performing after a 12-year touring absence.

Ortega recalled Jackson reaching out to him in March to enlist his directing services for the comeback concerts.
As Ortega told The Times last week, “I’ll never forget, he said, ‘This is it!’ And I said, ‘OK.’ He said, ‘This is it’ two or three times. And I said, ‘You should call the show that.’ He didn’t say, ‘Well, I will.’ But suddenly I saw it on a banner. So he did after all.”

According to Ortega, a confluence of personal reasons compelled the superstar to make such an extended return engagement to the limelight. 
“He started saying, ‘Kenny, my kids are so fascinated with what I’ve been doing my whole life, they’re like super fans. So I want to share with my children now that they’re old enough to appreciate it and I’m still young enough to do it,’” Ortega said.

He continued, recalling Jackson as saying: “‘Importantly, I want to do it for my fans, who are the greatest fans in the world. They’ve stuck by me in everything I’ve been through. Then there are the messages in my songs. Some of the ones I wrote 10 years ago are more meaningful today.’

He was really concerned about the planet, the health of the planet and the lack of love on the planet. He said, ‘This is the time now.’”

The superstar began rehearsals in Los Angeles in April and worked with Payne at several different facilities to prepare for London. First, a private sound stage at CenterStaging Musical

Productions in Burbank, then to the Forum in Inglewood and finally to downtown Los Angeles’ Staples Center in the production’s final weeks.
In an interview at the Sony studio lot last week, Payne described how the title’s meaning evolved over the course of the production.

“This was to be Michael’s last full-on tour,” Payne said. “But as we went through the process, ‘This Is It’ began to take on many different meanings. 'This Is It,' a call to action for our planet. 'This Is It,' the last time you’ll see me in this scenario. 'This Is It,' the show to come see this summer. Also, 'This Is It' for all of us [dancers] was what we had worked our entire lives to get to. It was a culmination of all those things.”

Ortega insists Jackson was serious about “This Is It” as his final curtain call.
“When he said ‘final curtain call,’ he meant touring,” Ortega said. “But he was ready to become a filmmaker next. He had many things on the horizon. He had said he didn’t want to be up there as an old man doing Michael Jackson. He’d say, ‘Can you imagine?’  And he’d laugh. ‘I can’t think of anything more ugly!’”

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