We love the Las Vegas Review-Journal and this morning the Las Vegas area paper published on of Mike Weatherford’s latest reviews, this time on Cirque du Soleil’s newest production VIVA ELVIS!
- What would Elvis do?
At the risk of adding to longtime confusion between Jesus and pop culture’s deity, Gilles Ste-Croix paraphrased the Christian motto as “the driving force” for Cirque du Soleil’s new “Viva Elvis.”
“I told all the creators, everybody involved in this show: If Elvis lived today, what type of band would he want? What type of dance would he want? What type of set? What type of theater?”
The veteran Cirque executive, credited as “artistic guide” for the new production, says he hopes Presley would even feel comfortable in one of the plush, bisected love seats inside the new 1,800-seat custom theater at Aria. It’s a conventional opera-house layout, but the upholstery pattern on the chairs, the drapes imprinted with Elvis 45’s — even the wood on the walls — all reference the “Jungle Room” and other interiors at Graceland, the King’s Memphis, Tenn., castle.
Read more of the interview/review here.
{ SOURCE: Las Vegas Review-Journal }
