This Is It (2009)

Kenny Ortega: Self

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• Kenny Ortega : [as Michael rides the cherry picker]  Just for same safety. Thank you. We've been there before. MJ this is just a mid-height. It goes much higher than this. This is the low-height.

  Michael Jackson : Why would you say that to me? You know better.

  [Kenny laughs] 

  Michael Jackson : Why would you say that? You're teasing me. That's why. You know want it higher.

• Kenny Ortega : We've rehearsed and Michael was great.

• Kenny Ortega : This is monumental. Michael's back on the cherry picker. Yeah!

• Kenny Ortega : So, as we open the show, as you know, with all the lights down. We're gonna do a spectacular opening with pyrotechnics and we want some sizzle and some cracks and some pops. We have our video that is called "Glimpses and Flashes". And that's where Light Man comes out on the gantry, floating above the stage, and he'll just be dazzling in video information. And piece, by piece, by piece, by piece, MJ is revealed until he jumps out and on Michael's command, we begin.

  Michael Jackson : [singing]  Got to be

  Background Singers : Startin' somethin'

  Michael Jackson : Got to be

  Background Singers : Startin' somethin'

  Michael Jackson : I wanna be

  Background Singers : Startin' somethin', Startin' somethin'

  Michael Jackson : Hard to get over

  Background Singers : Yeah, yeah...

• Michael Jackson , Background Singers : [singing]  All I want to say is that, They don't really care about us.

  Kenny Ortega : Hold for applause. Hold for applause. Slow umbrella. Fade out.

• Kenny Ortega : This is all sizzle. Sizzle. Sizzle. It says "Smooth Criminal". The audience is going wild. The camera now slowly starts to move over the marquee.

  Michael Jackson : [singing]  Ooo! As he came into the window, Was a sound of a crescendo...