Is this it?
Kenny Wizz has devoted 26 years to perfecting the art of MJ impersonation.
“I never try to better myself against others, I just want to present a great production,” he says.
The production, HIStory Does Repeat: This Is It, is the result of 26 years in the business. During this time, Wizz has devoted his life to studying and perfecting all elements of Michael Jackson’s performance, from his voice, to his gestures, to his unforgettable dance moves.
“It’s a two-hour show and I dance nonstop for most of that,” he says.
The performance is not the exhausting part though.
“It’s always 24 hours to get to the next junction and that really wears you down. Then I have to get up at five in the morning to be at the TV studio by seven. We have a team of 35 who all work really hard, but I’m the one that does all the interviews. Then I have to rehearse with the dancers, again with the band, and then all together. After the show I meet and greet fans and then get back to the hotel about one in the morning, go to sleep and get up and do it all over again,” he says.
“The actual show is like being in a candy store for us, everything in between is such hard work but the show is the reward.”
In costume Wizz looks uncannily like Jackson. He’s been offered plastic surgery free of charge, but Wizz decided instead to study make-up application and now painstakingly applies his own make-up for two hours before each performance.
“You wouldn’t even recognize me if I walked past you on the street,” he says.
Well. Unless he was moon walking.
HIStory Does Repeat: This Is It, The Opera House, March 9.
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