{"id":539545,"date":"2010-04-22T09:51:20","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T13:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=101689"},"modified":"2010-04-22T09:51:20","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T13:51:20","slug":"joe-jackson-unhappy-with-planned-mj-themed-cirque-du-soleil-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/539545","title":{"rendered":"Joe Jackson Unhappy With Planned MJ-Themed Cirque du Soleil Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/joe-jackson-confirms-omer-bhatti-is-michael-jackson-son-500x405.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"joe-jackson-confirms-omer-bhatti-is-michael-jackson-son\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-65652\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Eternal killjoy Joe Jackson doesn&#8217;t sound very pleased about his late son&#8217;s life being turned into a circus.<\/p>\n<p>The penny-pinching stage parent &#8211; whose pop legend son Michael died from acute Propofol intoxication last June &#8211; says he doesn&#8217;t understand why world-renowned Canadian performance troupe Cirque du Soleil want to travel the world with a show about the &#8220;Thriller&#8221; star.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-101689\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;That&#8217;s something else, isn&#8217;t it? I won&#8217;t see it,&#8221;<\/em> the Jackson patriarch replied dryly when probbed for his thoughts about the Cirque show by reporters this week.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the circus group struck a deal with the Jackson estate, which will see the production become a residency in Las Vegas from 2012 and will feature expansive acrobatics and dance routines set to the late King of Pop&#8217;s songs.<\/p>\n<p>While Joe is unhappy with the show, his estranged wife Katherine Jackson is delighted about the show, which will provide Michael&#8217;s estate with 50 percent of all profits.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Our family is thrilled that Cirque du Soleil will pay tribute to my son in such an important way,&#8221;<\/em> Mrs. Jackson remarked.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/fojkBIS3pBK7O4PzIoBzLn7ko1c\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/fojkBIS3pBK7O4PzIoBzLn7ko1c\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/fojkBIS3pBK7O4PzIoBzLn7ko1c\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/fojkBIS3pBK7O4PzIoBzLn7ko1c\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eternal killjoy Joe Jackson doesn&#8217;t sound very pleased about his late son&#8217;s life being turned into a circus. The penny-pinching stage parent &#8211; whose pop legend son Michael died from acute Propofol intoxication last June &#8211; says he doesn&#8217;t understand why world-renowned Canadian performance troupe Cirque du Soleil want to travel the world with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-539545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}