Debating the new Michael Jackson musical: Why are respected artists participating?

Incredibly, the dangerously titled Michael Jackson musical, "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough," is moving forward in New York. Its creators are using what I'll call the complexity defense. It's fascinating and has implications far beyond Jackson and his legacy.

First, let's review. The Tribune first reported Jan. 23 that the Broadway-bound musical, a jukebox biography focused around Jackson's "Dangerous" world tour, would try out in Chicago this fall. That engagement subsequently was canceled, seemingly in the immediately wake of the HBO documentary "Leaving Neverland," wherein two adult males, Wade Robson and James Safechuck, claimed, in withering detail, that the so-called King of Pop had abused them at his Neverland ranch when both were underage boys. However, the producers of the show, which include the Jackson estate, claimed that the