The Fan Fest was set up really nice with the costumes, awards and other paraphernalia of that of Michael Jackson. I knew this was going to be this way and sort of braced myself for what I was going to see. Yet to my surprise there were stages in each corner of the place. The stage for Scream was in one corner, where the space ship was and you could take photos. Only thing was that I was told that no camera's were allowed, so I had my small camera with me and was upset that the person told me the wrong information.
Moving on from that, I was amazed at all the awards I saw of Michael's. Some of these things, were at Julien's auction in 2009. The gloves, the awards and most of the previous costumes from his past concerts. So I moved quickly to the "Remember the Time" stage, where the gold seat was and where Michael sat with his broken foot while trying to attempt a dance. This was crowded but it was done up so beautifully.
There was the living room where Michael and his son Prince played chess. That huge chest board was there and a fire place, the leather sofa and a bookcase. Only thing missing of course was Michael.
Off to Neverland, well sort of, no black gates that were his trade mark of course, but an archway that pleased most. It was different. The flowered pathways, the ice cream card, his golf cart, the Peter Pan painted car and a few of his favorite games he liked playing. Plus the puppet machines with Cinderella and Pinocchio was there. I liked how the hotel did the tree of life. Pretty neat to some degree.
Off to the art corner was the art fans did. Very beautiful art I may say. I've seen them before on the Internet, but this is too precious to be out in public, but more in the hands of his children. Yet it was very beautiful to see the love put into them.
The costumes of "This is it" Wow is all I can say. Michael the costume designer did a phenomenal job from what I've viewed of some of these gorgeous pieces that sparkled larger than a Christmas bulb on a tree.
Because I saw so much of the things there before, and wasn't interested in the Wi game thing, I left early. I wanted to rest before I went to the major event of the night.
Immortal Show
This was the most amazing piece of art put together as a tribute to Jackson. I was blown away, in shock and even in awe, somewhat frightened a bit when they began the "Thriller" - "Ghost" piece. The noise made a few of us jump. I thought, how brilliant this was, that is what Michael would have done.
I loved the "Earth Song," "Will You Be There?" and yes I teared up, but not for long, because out came the "Dangerous" song and no way can you feel down with this song. I wasn't too pleased with just the girl doing the dance on the bar. She was amazing for sure. But I would have preferred more of the dancers doing the criminal dance part as I was use to seeing with Michael.
But the visual effects were so awesome. You looked at the performers, covered in lights to represent stars, and you watch the visuals, and it's like your out in space and at times you could see Michael's face in between the stars.
I wasn't too crazy about Bubbles too much, it was cute, but on a cherry picker--no that belonged to Michael and seemed out of place for the chimp.
When the song "Heal the World" played, I was hoping we all get up and hold hands, like we fans did, but no, there wasn't any of that. But the performers marched out of the audience with hearts and oh that was so touching.
I loved the soldiers; their costumes were phenomenal. Not quite like the "This is It," and glad, the back drop was from there, but these costumes were more from the movie "The Lord of the Rings." The beat, the loudness, went right through you, up your spine and vibrated your very being. "They don't care about us."
The costumes had these electronic lights in the center of the plates that went from a (?) to ($) then a peace sign and then a beautiful heart.
You were emotional with some songs, but elevated right back up again. The action was on stage, up above your head, and on the visuals backdrop. The band was brilliant and phenomenal. Tina Guo blew me away with her cello hard core playing. The dancers were pretty amazing, but one, Jean Sok, "BBoy Hourth" from France, may have had a handicap but it didn't stop his energy and dancing one bit. He was as good, if not better than his dancing partners.
Without giving too much away, I think the show did Michael justice. It gave us all, his music, beat, visuals and visions of a legend who touched so many and was taken away too soon.
Immortal was a wonderful tribute to Michael, his music, his love for the world, children, animals and all that Jackson held close to his heart and lived up the legends visionary dreams.
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