Post-Factual Theater: "MJ" at Neil Simon Theatre

The Theatre Times: On the way to a play one day in early 2019, I climbed out of the subway at 8th Avenue and 44th St. and was stunned to see a massive, multi-story billboard with no writing on it, just a black-pen drawing of Michael Jackson striking one of his iconic dance poses in a plain, deep-red field. Billboards that size tend to cost in the six figures. “Is that what I think it is?” I asked my theater friend. “A teaser for the new Michael Jackson musical? Yes,” he answered.