Viva Elvis by Cirque du Soleil

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  • Priscilla Presley and Cirque du Soleil unveil Viva Elvis at Aria in CityCenter on Dec. 15, 2009.

    Priscilla: Elvis would have been honored by ‘Viva Elvis’

    February 18, 2010

    During an inteview on "Larry King Live" Thursday evening, Priscilla Presley talked about helping to make changes in the new version of "Viva Elvis" by Cirque du Soleil, which opens Friday night at CityCenter's new Aria Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.

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    Humanizing Colonel Tom Parker was a Priscilla Presley objective

    The fedora-wearing, cigar-chomping depiction of Colonel Tom Parker in the earliest versions of "Viva Elvis" were too cartoonish for Priscilla Presley.

  • Las Vegas the scene of new Elvis film

    July 24, 1963

    "The Lady Loves Me" may be the new title of "Viva Las Vegas," an MGM movie currently being filmed here. Reason for the change, a studio spokesman on the set attests, is because of a budding romance visible even to casual onlookers, between the stars of the flicker, Elvis and Ann-Margret. The boy who owns the only Rolls-Royce in the world with Tennessee license plates and the girl who billed herself as the "Female Elvis Presley" at the start of her career, make a torrid combination, on or off the screen.