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Michael Jackson`s Hits on West End

London`s West End will see a new kind of entertainment as an extravagant musical Thriller Live based on Michael Jackson`s greatest hits is about to arrive. Thriller Live includes more than 80 performers: a gospel choir, children`s ballet and West End singers and dancers to reinterpret the singer`s most brilliant songs.

Producer Adrian Grant has called the show a "musical celebration" and says it will help to revive Jackson`s status in the entertainment and music world as the King of Pop. He says: "It`s to remind the public that Michael Jackson is still a great artist, and to put his music back out in the public domain. A lot of his music has been covered at the moment and if you go to the nightclubs and hear a Michael Jackson track, people get up and dance, so he`s still very popular."

Developed in eight months, Mr Grant first came up with the idea for Thriller Live back in 2002 following the success of his annual Michael Jackson Tribute entertainment show. The beginning of the show focuses on the singer`s Motown years with the Jackson Five before moving onto the infamous Thriller period and his most recent chart moments. Although the music and entertainment star himself has not been involved in the development of the musical, he gave Mr Grant his blessing, who has already written several authorized books on Jackson`s career.