This is It Rehearsal Pictures

[MJJ]

Just two days before he died, Michael Jackson practiced his moves during a rehearsal at Staples Center in L.A. for the London concerts.

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tmz.com/media/2009/06/0629_mj_dance_exclusiv_kevin_16858830_max_exclusiv _kevin_16858829_max.jpg

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h64/JennAnders/0629_mj_rehearsal_0002_Layer_2_full.jpg

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h64/JennAnders/0629_mj_rehearsal_0001_Layer_3_full.jpg

http://www.tmz.com/2009/06/29/michael-jackson-concert-rehearsal/

I don't know if anyone was planning on going, but it looks like it was going to be pretty good.
I hope they release some videos of the rehearsals as well, to stop those ridiculous rumours about him being frail in the last days of his life.

[Naruto!]

I Had tickets for august next year :( Right at the front too! RIP :(

[Lee]

Hmmm.. Something tells me it might just be cancled. No really R.I.P Michael Jackson!

[dirrty]

yeah, they have enough footage to create a tour DVD which i think they're planning on doing to recuperate some of the lost costs. hope this is true though!!

and from this pictures, looks quite good.

[CHA!NGANG]

Apparently they are planning on a benifit concert to replace the show which includes Beyonce, Justin Timberlake, Madonna e/c/t for people that who had tickets to go see him.

[Samishlol]

Hmm. I have already seen the pictures but I hope they do 50 odd concerts or they should to replace the millions of fans that was left horrified.

[lick]

The also recorded it with serverel HD camera with sounds, and there planning to do somthing with that TMZ said.

[MJJ]

Some more interesting things about the concerts:


The set list included Bad, Beat It, Billy Jean, Black or White, Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough, Man In The Mirror, Thriller, Wanna Be Starting Something, and We Are The World.http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article6591266.ece


Jackson hired Ed Alonzo -- a concert magician-comedian known as "the Misfit of Magic," who also worked on Britney Spears' "Circus" tour -- to create two set-piece illusions for his London shows. One illusion set to the opening number involved an illuminated sphere that would have floated around the singer's body, flown out above the audience and then landed back in Jackson's hand before immolating in a blaze of light.http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-jackson-rehearsal27-2009jun27,0,4699249.story

A hovering orb, a flaming bed, mutant spiders, 20-foot puppets, 3-D effects, pyrotechnics and the return of the crooning, spinning, moonwalking King of Pop. Michael Jackson's farewell concert tour had every crowd-pleasing lure — but no crowds.

Alonzo had designed dazzling effects for the show, including a glass sphere that would float around Jackson during the opening song, 1982's Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'.

The globe was designed to light up and grow brighter as it drifted over the crowd before landing in Jackson's palm. Jackson's instructions, according to Alonzo: "I want people to scream for miles."

For a splashy version of Dirty Diana, Jackson wanted a flaming bed with a pole-dancing aerialist "playing the part of the fire," Alonzo says.

The elaborately plotted stunt: Jackson intended to be pursued around the bed by the "fire woman," and each time she touched the stage, flames in the form of fluttering crimson fabric would shoot skyward.

After she caught him, she would lash him to the bed's tall posts with gold rope and a sheet of red fabric would billow before him, illuminating his struggling silhouette.

When the sheet fell, the magic trick would be triggered — the woman would be revealed as the one ensnared, and Jackson would materialize on a stage in the center of the arena."http://usatoday.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=Inside+Michael+Jackson%27s+last+show%3A+The+ magic+was+back+-+USATODAY.com&expire=&urlID=405774232&fb=Y&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Flife%2Fpeople% 2F2009-06-28-jackson-concerts_N.htm&partnerID=1663

Sounds like it would have been an amazing show.

[Samishlol]

Wow that does sound amazing, too bad it won't go ahead.

[Immenseman]

looked like it woulda been good

[GrandTheftAudio]

Apparently he was like 8 stone and 5'10. In that case he would have been pretty frail with his weight, the pressure/stress and dancing constantly.

sounded awesome tho