There’s a pink Cadillac parked outside the theatre and next to it, a man with slicked-back hair stands still as a statue. Streaming in behind him are dozens in kind, many of them small children, all the same: hair slicked back, tight white bejewelled outfits. A boy stands inside the Cadillac and raises his hands, shaped like horns, to the sky.
There’s no pop culture figure as enduring as Elvis Presley – there’s a reason he’s the most impersonated celebrity of all time – something confirmed by the fanaticism on display at Melbourne’s opening night of Elvis: A Musical Revolution.
