Viva Elvis
| Viva Elvis | |
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| Company | Cirque du Soleil |
| Genre | Contemporary circus |
| Show type | Resident show |
| Date of premiere | February 19, 2010 |
| Final show | August 31, 2012 |
| Location | Aria Resort & Casino, Las Vegas |
| Creative team | |
| Writer and director | Vincent Paterson |
| Creation director | Armand Thomas |
| Musical director and arranger | Erich van Tourneau |
| Set designer | Mark Fisher |
| Costume designer | Stefano Canulli |
| Acrobatic performance designer | Daniel Cola |
| Acrobatic equipment and rigging designer | Guy St-Amour |
| Original lighting designer | Marc Brickman |
| Additional lighting design and programming | Martin Labrecque |
| Image content designer | Ivan Dudynsky |
| Sound designer | Jonathan Deans |
| Props designer | Patricia Ruel |
| Makeup designer | Nathalie Gagné |
| Choreographers |
Tabitha and Napoleon D'umo, Mark Swanhart, Catherine Archambault |
| Artistic guide |
Guy Laliberté, Gilles Ste-Croix |
| Other information | |
| Preceded by | Banana Shpeel (2009) |
| Succeeded by | Totem (2010) |
| Official website | |
Viva Elvis was the seventh resident Cirque du Soleil show on the Las Vegas Strip. It resided at the Aria Resort & Casino and premiered on February 19, 2010. The show closed on August 31, 2012. Cirque du Soleil partnered with Elvis Presley Enterprises to produce this show, similar to how they partnered with The Beatles' Apple Corps Ltd to produce the resident show Love at the Mirage.
CKX, Inc., the company that owns the rights to Elvis Presley's name, likeness, and music publishing, signed an agreement to have Cirque du Soleil create the Elvis-themed residency show. The gala premiere was originally scheduled for January 2010 on what would have been Elvis' 75th birthday, but was postponed until February 19, 2010. CKX and Cirque du Soleil eventually intended to develop additional touring shows and multimedia interactive "Elvis Experiences" throughout the world.
Due to low attendance records for Viva Elvis, MGM Resorts asked Cirque du Soleil to replace the show. The show had its final performance on August 31, 2012. On March 7, 2012, Cirque du Soleil announced that following its second Radio City Music Hall engagement, the show Zarkana would be its replacement.
The Elvis Theater was designed with a conventional proscenium layout reminiscent of an opera house. The stage had 16 platforms, divided into 12 sections which could rise 10 feet (3.0 m); the widest section was 18 by 80 feet (5.5 m × 24.4 m) and was controlled by four large motors located 26 feet (7.9 m) below the stage.
The show's opening scene contained a jukebox made of chrome and gloss black which is 70 feet (21 m) wide by 22 feet (6.7 m) high. It also incorporated a 50-foot-tall (15 m) video screen. Also seen during the opening, a 29-foot-long (8.8 m), blue suede shoe weighed 7,000 pounds (3,200 kg) and was made of steel and fiberglass.
During "Got a Lot of Livin' to Do", seven trampolines were utilized. The entire structure took up the entire width of the stage (78 feet (24 m)) and weighed 30 tonnes (30 long tons; 33 short tons).
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