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Song: Thriller
Thrill The World NYC 2010 7pm in Coney Island
Thanks Beth for another great link
Click to see the lead up video
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We loved it, but then we are big Aiden fans. For those that don’t watch X-Factor we added a couple of videos so you can see why we love Aiden. Are we crazy? Is it a Thriller or would you tell him to Beat It?
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According to The Guardian
Hollywood studios are set to fight it out for the chance to produce a new film based on Michael Jackson’s groundbreaking Thriller video and song. Kenny Ortega, the High School Musical director who oversaw plans for Jackson’s ill-fated comeback tour and the film that chronicled rehearsals for it, This Is It, is in line to take charge of the cameras.
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Write the remix to go with this picture
Under the moonlight,
you see a sight that almost stops your heart
You try to scream but terror takes the sound before you make it
You start to freeze as horror looks you right between the eyes
You’re paralyzed
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And no one’s gonna save you from the beast about strike
You know it’s thriller, thriller night
You’re fighting for your life inside a killer, thriller tonight
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Michael Peters choreographed Dreamgirls the Broadway Musical
Dreamgirls premiered on Broadway at the Imperial Theatre on December 20, 1981 and closed on August 11, 1985. The production was directed by Michael Bennett, produced by Bennett, Bob Avian, Geffen Records, and The Shubert Organization, and choreographed by Bennett and Michael Peters. The music by Henry Krieger and lyrics and book by Tom Eyen. Based upon the show business aspirations and successes of R&B acts such as The Supremes, The Shirelles, James Brown, Jackie Wilson and others…
However, Tom Eyen denied that he had the Supremes in mind when he wrote the book. “I didn’t grow up with the Supremes, I grew up with the Shirelles. Dreamgirls isn’t about any one group. It’s a cavalcade of black Motown singers…”
Bennett and Michael Peters shared a 1982 Tony Award for Best Choreography for their work on the Broadway musical Dreamgirls.
Michael Peters also choreographed “Thriller”, directed by John Landis, and “Beat It” directed by Bob Giraldi.
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The short film for “Beat It”, choreographed by Michael Peters, helped establish Jackson as an international pop icon. The film was Jackson’s first treatment of black youth and the streets. Both “Beat It” and Thriller are notable for their “mass choreography” of synchronized dancers, a Jackson trademark. The video included around 80 genuine gang members—to add authenticity to the production—and 18 professional dancers. Inspired by the Broadway musical West Side Story, The video’s featured choreography opened up many job opportunities for dancers in the US.
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Article Headline: Michael Peters, a Choreographer Of ‘Dreamgirls,’ Is Dead at 46
Article Date: Published: September 1, 1994
Article Source: nytimes.com
Michael Peters, the Tony Award-winning choreographer and director, died on Monday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 46.
The cause was AIDS, said his publicity agent, Simon Halls.
Mr. Peters shared a Tony with Michael Bennett for their choreography for “Dreamgirls,” the 1981 Broadway musical based on the story of the Supremes, and won two Emmy Awards, for choreographing “Liberty Weekend Closing Ceremonies” and “The Jacksons: An American Dream.” Art of the Video
Mr. Peters was also among the first to establish a name for the choreography of music videos, in the process helping to raise their production values and claims to being serious works of popular culture.
His work with Michael Jackson on the “Beat It” and “Thriller” videos, in which Mr. Peters also danced, was a sophisticated blend of musical theater and pop values. Mr. Peters was also vocal in pressing publicly for more acknowledgement of choreographers in film and began a campaign last year to push for an Oscar for choreography.
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According to John Landis, Michael Jackson watched a film he directed, ‘An American Werewolf in London’ and then called him up and said “I want to be made into a Warewolf”! The rest is Thriller history…Click here to watch interview.
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REMOVE THAT SCARF! YOUR HANDSOME!
Awww…
