The King Lives

This was a pretty good tribute show by Pete Wilcox ($ 32.95) — I thought it would be cheesy. I got complimentary tickets through an office associate.
The parking lot is pretty awkward– but don’t forget this hotel/​casino used to be the San Remo, years ago. The inside looks nicely renovated. Kinda small, but at least, it does’t feel like you’re in a downtown casino (the time warp feeling you get with a few casinos on The Strip like the Imperial Palace and Riviera). The showroom was about 80% capacity (I’m kind of guessing, because we were in the front row) on opening night and the people in attendance were of the older variety– my friend and I were about the youngest people there, being in our thirties.
Wilcox has been performing in Elvis tribute concerts for over decades, portraying Elvis in so many 1980’s tv shows like Cheers, LA Law, Murphy Brown, and Designing Women, just to name a few credits. You learn this with the opening sequence, which has an odd song like «2001 odyssey.» He has two backup singers (ladies) and a full band– all were pretty good as well. Wilcox was very entertaining. The Hip Hop Elvis mash-​up was impressive and unexpected– he also a few dances from the 1980s. I got to hear some of my favorite Elvis songs performed. (Elvis tends to be popular with my family. I saw a lot of Elvis movies growing up and my older brother is a super-​fan.)
I enjoyed the show– thinking of taking my mom for her birthday or for the holidays, since she wants to see more Vegas shows.