Inside the Michael Jackson “This Is It” Auditions
Last week, I became aware that Michael Jackson was auditioning dancers for his upcoming “This Is It” show in London. I first became aware through The Twinz twitter page that auditions were being held during the week in LA for male and female dancers.
Several dancers chose to tweet and blog about their auditions and there were some exciting details that emerged.
The best account we have had of what it was like inside the auditions is Victoria Parsons’ blog. She wrote about the grueling and exciting audition process here. A dancer called Erynn Joi also wrote about the auditions (prior to auditioning) which gave some insight into the expected pay and contract conditions.
Only 6 guys and 2 girls were chosen (with understudies) and those who made the callback on the second day had to perform in front of Michael Jackson himself. It would appear that Michael Jackson has chosen new, fresh, young talent to dance at his shows which is great. MJ has often used the same dancers on all his tours and rarely used female dancers. I am hoping this is a sign of growth and exciting things in store for the shows!
If you’d like to read more about some of the dancers that auditioned, please visit their twitter pages and blogs:
http://twitter.com/thetwinz / (Myspace, fansite and official site)
http://iamerynnjoi.blogspot.com/ http://twitter.com/ERYNNJOI
http://twitter.com/dannydavalos
http://twitter.com/MrMarkSamuels
http://twitter.com/Islarose87
http://twitter.com/charamonanjaya
http://twitter.com/msvictoria
Hopefully there will be more details to come!
To check out more details as they emerge, click here.
