CIRQUE du Soleil wants to recreate Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch in Sin City.

The Mandalay Bay hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip planned to open a sprawling entertainment complex that includes a Jackson-themed lounge, an interactive memorabilia museum and a theatre designed to replicate the iconic refuge of the deceased musical legend, Cirque du Soleil president Daniel Lamarre said on Wednesday.

"The place, Mandalay Bay, is going to become the home of Michael Jackson in many, many ways," he said at the casino attended by Jackson's older brother, Jackie.

John Branca, co-executor of Michael Jackson's estate, said the attraction will offer fans a permanent place to celebrate, as well as give them the opportunity to see some of the objects displayed at Neverland Ranch.

"Very few fans would ever get to visit Michael's Neverland Ranch because of its remote location," he said.

Plans for the Las Vegas lodestone, set to open in 2013, are part of the budding business relationship between the acrobatic troupe and the pop star's estate.

Cirque du Soleil's homage to Jackson kicks off in October, with the most expensive show in the French company's history. The $57million (R337million) Michael Jackson, The Immortal World Tour will open in Montreal and hit 30 cities including New York, Miami, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Las Vegas.

The tour's Las Vegas stop at Mandalay Bay will start with a fan convention in December as a preview to the permanent Jackson attraction.

Concept art for the touring show's set prominently features a massive tree symbolic of a favourite oak that sat outside Jackson's Neverland bedroom.

The singer nicknamed it the Giving Tree and had a perch built atop it where he wrote music and sometimes slept.

For Jackson's Thriller, tombstones overwhelm the set in a nod to the music video's horror-film motif and gyrating zombies.

Excerpts from Jackson's music videos will be part of the 90-minute show, with no specific performer representing Jackson.

Immortal will also feature as-yet-unreleased songs that Jackson finished before his death in 2009.

The tour then goes to Europe, Lamarre said, while Cirque producers open a more intimate theatrical show at the new Las Vegas theatre.

Jackson's estate and Cirque will each own 50percent of both projects and share equally in the cost of putting on the productions.

Tour director Jamie King said he searched for acrobats, dancers and musicians from across the world who could capture Jackson's spirit and showmanship.

"I feel like I am not doing it alone, I feel like I am doing it with Michael as my co-director all the way," King, who has directed concert tours for Madonna, Rihanna and Celine Dion, said.

Jackson admired the Canadian troupe's work and attended Cirque shows in Los Angeles and Las Vegas.

Mandalay Bay president Chuck Bowling said the Jackson attraction would strengthen the casino's financial health in future years.