Didn't have stage value? what were these people smoking.. I mean sure they even were going to make Dirty Diana 'prop friendly' but the magic of APAM is the combo of MJ free style moving to the music, hitting a few choreographed points, and the vocals together..
They could have done any simple thing to make APOM relevant to the theme they were doing.. to add to it without taking from the performance - They could have played speech in the beginning of 'Can You Feel It' Video with a stage presentation.. the dancers wearing different colored robes (representing different races/cultures), they come together in the middle of the stage united and Michael appears at the top of the ramp with golden light behind him (pharaoh-esk)..Looking on to his people.. screams out his APAM "How you Doin'?" and kicks off the song..
There we go, they add to the theatrical theme they had going and the can keep the core performance in tact.