Priscilla Presley is persuaded to perform Elvis song in Christmas panto

 
p33 Priscilla Presley to star in Snow White at Wimbledon Theatre
Alex Lentati
6 December 2012

Priscilla Presley is to enter the panto spirit this Christmas by performing one of her late husband Elvis’s songs.

The former Dallas star has been persuaded to sing in public for the first time as she makes her stage debut as the Wicked Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in Wimbledon.

“I was shying away from it a bit. But the more I was told about panto, I thought, ‘We’ll have fun with this’. The song — I’m not going to say what it is — does fit the part,” she said. “My daughter [Lisa Marie] is a singer, her dad, obviously… but the world needs to know I’m not a singer. It’s not serious, it’s just having fun.”

Presley, 67, said she had known nothing of pantomime — which is not performed in America. “It’s all very new to me. But I’m getting prepared to be booed and have things being yelled at me.”

During her stay, she hopes to see Lisa Marie and her youngest grandchildren, four-year-old twins Harper and Finley, who live in Sussex.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs opens at the New Wimbledon Theatre tomorrow and runs until January 13.

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