MJ The Musical, 2022

The run dates incomplete

Opened

February 1, 2022

Closed

Unknown

Performances

1,036

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Neil Simon Theatre

Of the 188 productions we hold that opened in the 2020s and carry a performance count, this is the 2nd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

No closing date. At this distance that most likely means nobody wrote down when it ended, rather than that the run went on.

Who was in it31 named

Devin Trey Campbell
John Edwards
Kali May Grinder
Michelle Mercedes
Antoine L Smith
Zelig Williams
Matte Martinez
Bailey Mccall
Lloyd A Boyd Iii
Kellie Drobnick
Aydin Eyikan
Matthew Frederick Harris
Chelsea Mitchell Bonsu
Sarah Sigman
Brion Marquis Watson
Ilario Grant
Bane Griffith
Brandon Lee Harris
Corey J
Sage Lee
Jovan Dansberry
Ayana Jackson
Janaye Mcalpine

8 of these 31 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 23 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name, so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Creative team

Director

Christopher Wheeldon

Choreographer

Christopher Wheeldon

A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.

Tony Awardscategories not held

4 wins from 10 nominations. We don't know which categories.

Around this production

MJ the Musical is a jukebox musical based on the life of the American entertainer Michael Jackson, focusing on his creative process prior to the Dangerous World Tour. It features Jackson's music, with a book by Lynn Nottage, and direction & choreography by Christopher Wheeldon. MJ was scheduled to premiere on Broadway in mid-2020, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City. In November 2019, Ephraim Sykes was cast as Jackson, but in June 2021 it was announced that he had been replaced by Myles Frost. The production began previews at the Neil Simon Theatre on December 6, 2021, and officially opened on February 1, 2022. It opened in the London West End on March 27, 2024 an…

• MJ The Musical, the Michael Jackson musical, which, with any luck, will bring an end to it all. Singular Sensation the Triumph of Broadway the Triumph of Michael Riedel First A, p. 275

Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.

What this page does not know

• No photograph of this staging.
• No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
• No recording is held for MJ The Musical at all.
• When it closed.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.