History Theatre / MichaelJacksonTHEIMMORTALWorldTour

* SharpDressedMan: The gangsters.
* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''The Beatles LOVE'' and ''Theatre/VivaElvis''.

* FunnyAfro: The Mime and Fantatics don these to imitate the Jackson 5 in one comic interlude.

* BareYourMidriff: Two ladies bare theirs: the cello player and the pole dancer who performs to "Dangerous".

* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: ''Bubbles the chimp'' (as played by a dancer) is a character!

* ManInWhite
** The Mime, befitting his status as an innocent everyman.
** Most of the male "corpses" in the Scary Story sequence.

* WorldTree: Originally the set was dominated by a "Giving Tree" similar to one Jackson loved to sit in at the Neverland Ranch; most of the huge setpiece was discarded early in the run, though the tall trunk remains.
* [[WomanInWhite Women in White]]: The female "corpses" during the Scary Story.

** AudienceParticipationFailure: If audience reviews at Ticketmaster are any indication, sometimes they have a hard time getting the crowd to chant. After all, he's not going to show up.

--> ...dancing robots appear with LED breastplates that first flash dollar signs amidst videos of urban and international violence, then display hearts as Mother Teresa appears onscreen to feed starving children. The number was originally designed for Jackson's This Is It shows (performances that were preempted by the artist's demise), so Cirque can't entirely be blamed for its unseemly exploitation of human suffering for commercial entertainment. Of course Jackson would have seen himself as raising awareness, and Cirque doubtless think the same thing about the pro-Gaia number ["Earth Song"] that unfolds as 30,000 people sip from souvenir plastic cups.

* AudienceParticipation: The performers head out into the audience and encourage the crowd to chant "Michael! Michael!" to lead into the Megamix.

--> ...dancing robots appear with LED breastplates that first flash dollar signs amidst videos of urban and international violence, then display hearts as Mother Teresa appears onscreen to feed starving children. The number was originally designed for Jackson's This Is It shows (performances that were preempted by the artist's demise), so Cirque can't entirely be blamed for its unseemly exploitation of human suffering for commercial entertainment. Of course Jackson would have seen himself as raising awareness, and Cirque doubtless think the same thing about the pro-Gaia number ["Earth Song"] that unfolds as 30,000 people sip from souvenir plastic cups.

* EveryoneHatesMimes: A RealLife example -- a common professional critical complaint is that The Mime is ''just'' a dancing mime, with no distinctive personality, and makes a weak viewpoint character.

* TheFlapper: Most of the women in the {{Gangsterland}} sequence.

* WhiteMaleLead: The Mime; while it's never been unusual for a Cirque show to have a white male performer playing the viewpoint character, the trope sticks out more in a show paying tribute to a ''black'' performer.

''Michael Jackson THE IMMORTAL World Tour'' is Creator/CirqueDuSoleil's 31st production, an arena tour launched in 2011.

This tour returned to North America in 2014.

This tour is spending 2013 in Europe, Asia, and Australia, and will return to North America in 2014.

This tour will be spending 2013 in Europe, Asia, and Australia.

* WhiteMaleLead: The Mime; while many Cirque shows have white male characters serving the viewpoint role, this trope comes off as odd for a show paying tribute to a black performer.

This tour will be spending 2013 in Europe and Asia.

''Michael Jackson THE IMMORTAL World Tour'' is Creator/CirqueDuSoleil's 30th production, an arena tour launched in 2011.

The premise has an everyman mime journey into the heart of the Neverland Ranch, MichaelJackson's most famous residence in life, and through a series of acrobatic and dance vignettes based around common themes and settings in his songs. These include dancing, gangsters and dangerous women, and supernatural creatures. While Jackson's original recordings are the basis of the soundtrack, there are live musicians and singers shoring them up.

''Michael Jackson THE IMMORTAL World Tour'' is CirqueDuSoleil's 30th production, an arena tour launched in 2011.

* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''TheBeatlesLOVE'' and ''VivaElvis''.

* {{Gangsterland}}: As depicted in movies of the 1930s, this is the setting of the "This Place Hotel"/"Smooth Criminal"/"Dangerous" sequence.

* EveryoneHatesMimes: A RealLife example -- a common professional critical complaint is that The Mime is ''just'' a dancing mime, with no distinctive personality, and makes a weak viewpoint character. It doesn't help that the ExcusePlot of an everyperson traveling through a magic realm is old hat for Cirque at this point.

* EverybodyHatesMimes: A RealLife example -- a common professional critical complaint is that The Mime is ''just'' a dancing mime, with no distinctive personality, and makes a weak viewpoint character. It doesn't help that the ExcusePlot of an everyperson traveling through a magic realm is old hat for Cirque at this point.

* [[WomanInWhite Women in White]]: The female "corpses" during the Scary Story.

''Michael Jackson THE IMMORTAL World Tour'' (yes, the "the" is supposed to be capitalized, but not doing so reads better as a link) is CirqueDuSoleil's 30th production, an arena tour launched in 2011.