One Night With Elvis - The Legend Continues
Like no other artist, perhaps, homages to Elvis have always - and probably always will - range from the impressive right through to the totally dire.
Lee 'Memphis' King in the touring production of One Night With Elvis - The Legend Continues Photo: Memphis King
Judging by this quality performance at a pretty full Apollo, Lee ‘Memphis’ King is certainly among the premier league of tributes, his attention to detail never better than during his 1968 Comeback Special section, seated with a few band members and joking with the audience and musicians alike, just as Elvis did, apparently.
Before that though, he’d looked slightly less sure of himself as the opening young Elvis - Jailhouse Rock et al - not least as he doesn’t play the guitar, something the audience needed to accept early on, and forget.
The evening really lifted off when it was time for the Las Vegas era, a fabulous version of Bridge Over Troubled Water raising the vocal bar to a level it rarely really dipped from afterwards.
Clearly, it’s the era this particular Elvis excels at and revels in portraying. Having a fine live band with you always helps, and with the bonus of a lovely string section and two versatile female singers, this was always going to be one of the better Presley experiences. Best of all, maybe, Lee ‘Memphis’ King doesn’t shy away from performing some of the more obscure covers, such as Just Pretend, which I’m sure pleased any real aficionados present.
It’s the likes of Suspicious Minds which are the real crowd pleasers though, performed here with real style and total conviction - in truth though he’d long won over the Apollo by the time he sang that classic.
Production information
- Management:
- Roy Evans
- Cast:
- Lee 'Memphis' King
- Sound:
- Steve Williams for Viking Sound
- Lighting:
- Joanna MacDonnell
- Website:
- www.elvis-theshow.com
Production information can change over the run of the show.
Run sheet
- Playhouse Weston Super Mare
- March 30 2007
- Assembly Rooms Ludlow
- March 31 2007
- Lawn Lincoln
- April 1 2007
- Palace Kilmarnock
- April 7 2007
- Carnegie Hall Dunfermline
- April 12 2007
- Tait Hall Kelso
- April 13 2007
- Town House Hamilton
- April 14 2007
- Shaw London
- April 15-16 2007
- Winding Wheel Chesterfield
- April 21 2007
- Arts Complex Solihull
- April 27 2007
- Gaiety Douglas, Isle of Man
- April 28 2007
- Pavilion Glasgow
- May 5 2007
- Hall for Cornwall Truro
- May 11 2007
- Lights Andover
- May 18-19 2007
- Anvil Basingstoke
- May 20 2007
- Fort Regent Leisure Park Jersey
- May 26 2007
- Carnegie Theatre and Arts Centre Workington
- June 1 2007
- Caird Hall Dundee
- June 2 2007
- Mechanics Burnley
- June 3 2007
- Waterfront Hall Belfast
- June 8 2007
- Regent Ipswich
- June 9 2007
- St George's Hall Exeter
- June 10 2007
- Carnegie Hall Dunfermline
- June 14 2007
- Priory Centre St Neots
- June 15 2007
- Ashcroft Croydon
- June 16 2007
- Orchard Dartford
- June 22 2007
- Assembly Rooms Derby
- June 23 2007
- Customs House South Shields
- June 24 2007
- Town Hall High Wycombe
- June 29 2007
- New Oxford
- June 30 2007
- New Empire Theatre Southend-on-Sea
- July 1 2007
- Stables Milton Keynes
- July 13 2007
- Theatre Royal Margate
- July 14 2007
- Pavilion Weymouth
- July 26, August 2 2007
- Britannia Great Yarmouth
- August 3 2007
- Futurist Scarborough
- August 5 2007
- Pavilion Rhyl
- August 9 2007
- Medina Newport, Isle of Wight
- August 10 2007
- Hippodrome Bristol
- August 12 2007
- Landmark Ilfracombe
- August 14 2007
- Beau Sejour Arts Centre Guernsey
- August 16 2007
- Britannia Great Yarmouth
- August 17 2007
- Opera House Buxton
- August 19 2007
- Pavilion Weymouth
- August 30 2007
- Britannia Great Yarmouth
- August 31 2007
- Futurist Scarborough
- September 2 2007
- Pavilion Weymouth
- September 6 2007
- Alexandra at the Hotham Arts Centre Bognor Regis
- September 7 2007
- Phoenix Blyth
- September 8 2007
- Octagon Yeovil
- September 14 2007
- Regent Centre Christchurch
- September 15 2007
- Wyvern Swindon
- September 21 2007
- Oakengates, The Place Telford
- September 22 2007
- Beck Hayes
- September 28 2007
- Corn Exchange Bedford
- September 29-August 29 2007
- Broadway Barking
- September 30 2007
- Maddermarket Norwich
- October 1- 2 2007
- Palace Manchester
- October 6 2007
- Empire Sunderland
- October 7 2007
- Woodville Halls Gravesend
- October 12 2007
- Gordon Craig Stevenage
- October 13 2007
- Assembly Hall Tunbridge Wells
- October 14 2007
- Alban Arena St Albans
- October 20 2007
- Royal Concert Hall Glasgow
- October 26 2007
- Pavilion Rhyl
- October 27 2007
- Alexandra Birmingham
- October 28 2007
- Key Peterborough
- November 1- 2 2007
- Alexandra at the Hotham Arts Centre Bognor Regis
- November 2 2007
- Civic Hall Whitehaven
- November 3 2007
- Blake Monmouth
- November 15 2007
- Journal Tyne Newcastle-upon-Tyne
- November 17 2007
- Brentwood Centre Brentwood
- November 18 2007
- White Rock Hastings
- November 24 2007
- Playhouse Edinburgh
- November 25 2007
- Medina Leisure Centre Newport, Isle of Wight
- November 30 2007
- Civic Oswaldtwistle
- December 1 2007
- Auditorium Grimsby
- December 2 2007
- City Hall Sheffield
- December 6, 13 2007
- Wharf Tavistock
- December 21 2007
- Civic Hall Broxbourne
- February 10
- Derngate, Royal & Derngate Northampton
- March 15
- Palace Mansfield
- April 11
- Alban Arena St Albans
- May 11
- Derngate, Royal & Derngate Northampton
- June 28
- Stables Milton Keynes
- July 2- 3
- Cannizaro Park London
- July 19
- Empire Consett
- October 18
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