The show’s concept is to present an authentic as possible Elvis Presley concert. The producers edited together a collection of Elvis‘ finest concert performances that exist on film and video and removed virtually all sound from the footage except for Elvis‘ vocal. The Elvis footage is projected on a large video screen. On stage a 16-piece orchestra and some of Elvis‘ original bandmates from the concert era of his career and other cast members perform live with the Elvis video. All music heard in the concert production is performed live except for Elvis‘ voice. On either side of the Elvis performance screen are screens that carry live action from the stage.
Performers currently scheduled to participate include: Joe Guercio, Elvis¹ orchestra conductor for many of his Vegas performances; members of the original TCB Band; Elvis¹ backup singers The Imperials and The Sweet Inspirations.
Elvis concert footage for the show comes primarily from material shot for the MGM concert films Elvis, That’s The Way It Is (1970) and Elvis on Tour (1972) and from the historic 1973 global television special Elvis: Aloha from Hawaii, via Satellite. This footage contains some of Elvis‘ finest performances from the big concert era of his career, the era that is celebrated by the Elvis Presley In Concert production. The other main criterion for selecting from these films is that they were originally recorded in multi-track. Thus, the producers are able to drop all sound from the footage, then return to the footage the isolated track that recorded only from Elvis‘ microphone in these exact concert performances.
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