MJ The Illusion: Re-Living The King of Pop in Branson, MO

WOW - What a Concert! What a Great Time! - - - - - - - - August, 2025 Visit My wonderful wife planned a getaway to Branson Labor Day weekend 2025, and we had a great time.My wonderful wife planned a getaway weekend in Branson this August and we had a great time. Third stop: a great concert with MJ The Illusion, at Reza Theater - - - Branson is tied for the place we’ve visited the most over the years… we’ve done fishing, visited Bass Pro and Big Cedar, gone fishing, gone to Silver Dollar City and White Water, and gone fishing some more. Before this trip, the only theater we visited was the Sight and Sound Theater, for their showing of Noah’s Ark, which was a good show. This trip, we saw a great concert at the Reza Theater… WOW… what a show!!! Sure, my wonderful wife scored us third-row seats (!!!), where we were eye level with the great footwork… we looked straight at for the moonwalks and more… and even if we had other seats, this would have been a great show!!. It’s the performers who make this so great - and each is clearly a Michael Jackson fan and a performer who wants us, the crowd, to have a great time… and we had a great time. The band plays the music, MJ sings, with the backup singers. They re-create one of Michael’s concerts, from the Dangerous tour. Songs were / are most of Michael Jackson’s greatest hits, most from Dangerous, Bad, Thriller and Off The Wall. They pause from the music a couple times to interact with us and share about the show. They shared how they make this performance as close to the original concert as possible… and we believe them… from the dancing and singing to the costumes to the lighting… all so good, so realistic! The - - - Location - - - MJ The Illusion is performed at the Reza Theater. The Reza Theater is about a quarter mile south of The Titanic… … The Titanic is at the Blue Route and the Strip … continuing south at that intersection, the Blue Route becomes Hw. 165 … the Reza Theater is right where the yellow line starts, going east; the Reza Theater is there at the west side of that intersection , on th - - - The Playlist - - - - Saw all the foot / dancin’ action at eye level - Amazing show… looked jut like the king of pop! Great band and supporting singers; married to wife, on stage MJ Illusionist playlist 1. Jam 2. Shake it Down 3. Wanna Be Startin’ Something (ma ma se ma ma sa, ma ma coo sa) 4. Human nature look 5. Smooth Criminal 6. The way you make me fee 7. Smooth Criminal 8. I Just Can’t Stop Loving You 9. She’s Out of My Life 10. I Want You Back / The Love You Save / I’ll Be There 11. J5 - popular song 12. J5 ? 13. J5 I’ll be there 14. Dirty Diana Intermission 12. Thriller 13. Beat It 14. Black or White 15. Heal the World / Make This a Better Place 16. Billy Jean 17. Bad 18. The Man in the Mirror

Michael Knight did a great tribute performance of Michael Jackson. His dance movers are fantastic and his moon walk was spot on.

I purchased tickets and 4 hours later the show was cancelled but they refused to refund my money! That is no way to treat customers. Instead of giving me a refund they gave me a gift certificate for 2 tickets but my schedule was booked and I was leaving brown in 2 days so the tickets are pretty useless unless I return here for vacation sometime in the future. So beware! If you purchase any tickets for a production at the Reza Live Theatre (they hold 3 different shows at that venue) be sure to use a credit card so you can dispute the charge should the show get cancelled. Oh and the show that was cancelled showed up on the show calendar as “sold out” which is very deceptive.

What a fun experience. Songs from all time periods. Costume changes, and the dancing was just unreal. Kudos to this guy. He has obviously been professionally trained for YEARS to be able to pull this off. Highly recommend if you love the King of Pop.

This was crazy. You had one - way to happy skinny employee telling people to sit wherever you want to. Most of us sat in our assigned seats like we picked out and were told to by others. He really messed up a lot of seats then laughed about it and said ..wow glad I didnt help those people. Pretty bad and unprofessional. The dancers were extremely Great in their percussion! They could be in Vegas. The MJ person not so much. I’m hoping he was just having a bad day. A few songs were really flat while singing and after the mid break he sounded terrible ! He must of eaten something not good for the throat . His wife has a beautiful voice. The place was pretty much on the empty side and I can see why. Tickets were kind of high priced for this act. I Would say if you’ve never been out traveling or to Vegas and seen any other shows in your life than this will be great for you, enjoy.