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LOS ANGELES — First the Beatles and Elvis, now Michael Jackson. The acrobatic troupe Cirque du Soleil announced Tuesday that it will put on a live touring show featuring the songs of the King of Pop starting late next year.
That will be followed by a permanent production in Las Vegas in 2012 at a property owned by MGM Mirage Inc. A nightclub in Las Vegas will also open with the show. Cirque and Jackson’s estate will each own 50 percent of the projects and share equally in their cost.
Jackson, who died at age 50 last June after a drug overdose, was described as a “huge fan” of the French-Canadian performance group. The Associated Press
