Saving Elvis
A young man hiding inside a legend.
A boy who never learned how to grieve.
The Story
Saving Elvis is an original musical about performance, grief,
and the cost of becoming the thing people love you for.
Steve has spent his adult life performing as Elvis Presley.
What began as comfort after the death of his mother has slowly
hardened into an identity he no longer knows how to step out of.
Onstage, he is adored. Offstage, he is fading.
When the place that once held him, and the voice that protected him
begin to fall away, Steve is forced to choose between
staying inside the performance, or risking being seen without it.
Staging & Form
Designed for minimal sets,
fluid transitions, and intimate venues,
the diner exists as a single core environment,
reshaped by lighting, sound, and performance rather than scenery.
The diner is not presented as a period setting,
but as a living, working space that continues to exist in the present.
It is a place of routine, refuge, and informal performance
where people still gather, still watch, and still listen.
Memory and reality coexist onstage,
allowing the past to interrupt the present
without scene changes or physical rebuilds.
