Songs from The Elvis Presley Game Show

Now playing at The Parkside Lounge, *Songs from The Elvis Presley Game Show* treats the Presley myth as raw material rather than tribute. The piece moves through song fragments, stage patter, and the logic of a game show, using familiar Americana to examine how fame gets packaged, sold, and remembered. In New York, where downtown performance has long tested the borders between concert, theater, and parody, it reads as part of that lineage. Its most pointed observation is that nostalgia can function like a scoring system, rewarding repetition over truth.