Here are the hints to how you know that Viva Elvis by Cirque Du Soleil is an easy pass:\n\n1. You find yourself more taken by the old movie montages of Elvis's make out scenes running behind the stage\n\n2. You find yourself listening to the inexcusably annoying \"narrator\" (acting as Elvis' former manager) and wondering why Cirque deployed an element that makes you think of nothing other than a strange hybrid between Disney's Hall of the Presidents and the Country Bear Jamboree\n\n3. You see the \"Jailhouse Rock\" scene, which is more than halfway through the performance and you think \"Oh, that looks like Cirque\"\n\n4. You think \"wow, this ballet scene is beautiful\"\n\n5. You keep imagining the magnificently asymmetrical costuming from the Beatles Love show\n\n6. You are struggling during the show to make sense of why in most Cirque shows NO ONE speaks, and you're pleading with this show to make that annoying dude stop talking\n\n7.  You are thinking about why the \"O\" show feels like it is not on a conventional \"stage\", and you are thinking about your high school auditorium\n\nThis show was an incredible disappointment.  It was a fine musical review, with a great cover band and very talented dancers (and a drummer and some horn players that made you wish all those other people would just leave so you could hear raw talent without a ton of old movie video).  But as a Cirque show it made no sense.  \n\nIt was representational and not allusive or abstract.  Costumes were normal.  They talked about Elvis' Vegas comeback and....guess what...they tossed up some Vegasy showgirls in feathered hats and some flames.\n\nIf nothing else, someone at Cirque please see this and get rid of the narrator - who is up there shucking and jiving like he's a laugh riot - and seemingly everyone in the show is deaf to the sound of 2 out of 600 people chuckling shyly from the audience.   This guy may be the single biggest reason the show was  1/2 filled on a Halloween weekend Thursday night.\n\nUntil the kinks are resolved and the show is configured to be something you feel you need to keep up with, versus something that feels a bit like the History Channel with awesome percussion, I'd steer clear.