Elvis .. Bemus Style
While attending the Elvis tribute show in Bemus Point one summer I asked this waiter named John to pose for a fun photo before the concert. "Elvis" promptly set down his serving tray and "struck a pose" for my camera!
Rick Alviti's Elvis tribute show is high-energy and full of audience interaction. From corporate entertainment to casinos to the Chautauqua Lake Pops, this Elvis impersonator's show has everything one would want in a live show!
Rick has performed all over the country and in many parts of the world from the Wynn Resort in Las Vegas to the award-winning Turning Stone Casino in Verona, New York owned by the Oneida Indian Nation to Malaysia for the Prime Minister. While there he raised $250,000 for refugees in Kosovo.
Rick perfected his skills as a live performer at his own venue named Celebrity Theatre in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. His all-Elvis, Vegas-style tribute played 6 nights a week for several years. Rick and the talented Rick Alviti Showband have taken this tribute show on the road and now travel across the country to bring this act to a wider audience wanting more!
Rick Alviti brings the passon, commitment and professionalism gained from his years as an actor/entertainer while living in Los Angeles. Although Rick is truly a master at performing for a live audience, these skills have been enhanced by his other appearances in movie roles, on radio shows and television performances such as ER with George Clooney.
This tribute to Elvis is truly the closest thing to a live Elvis performance you will ever see or hear!
When Rick Alviti looks in the mirror, he sees Elvis. There's no getting around it. The pushed-back hair. The thick, bushy sideburns. The sexy sneer. The blue eyes.
It's no wonder this actor had to face the music, so to speak, and learn how to "be" Elvis. Several years go, Alviti, was living in California trying to be an actor and working as a single bartender at a popular club across the street from the NBC studios in Burbank. He said he was one of the few who could sing and mix drinks at the same time! Soon he became the singing Elvis behind the bar.
"Every day, someone said something about Elvis and told me I should go to Vegas. So I decided to try it though I wanted to make sure I represented him in the proper way. I started studying. I watched all of his movies and saw him in concert. I rehearsed for a year. then, things just took off for me. I was getting all kinds of Elvis jobs and parts."
One of his more memorable performances was for Hugh Hefner at the Playboy Mansion in 1998. Some diehard Elvis fans who have seen Alviti's show say that he is one of the best! In fact, they rank his show among the top! Btw, Alviti's father, Richard, is his manager.
This tribute to The King would have appeared on the floating stage today .. August 29.
Be safe.
Pat Locke
Maestro Muse
