One Night With You

And here’s Leah Hocking, who plays museum curator Miss Sandra, with whom Chad falls hopelessly in love.

Here’s Alix Korey, who plays the town’s discriminating (and fun-squelching) Mayor, Matilda Hyde…

…Curtis Holbrook, who plays her son, Dean…

…Nikki M. James, who plays Lorraine, the girl he falls head over heels for…

…and Sharon Wilkins, who play’s Lorraine’s mother, Sylvia.

Among the celebrities who attended the opening were performer Phyllis Newman and her daughter, singer-songwriter Amanda Green…

…fashion mogul Tommy Hilfiger…

…actress Tina Louise, who’s best known for playing Ginger on the classic 1960s TV comedy, Gilligan’s Island. (But she has Broadway credits, too, including the original productions of Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter and Li’l Abner.)

Also present were singer and actor Isaac Hayes…

…playwright and actress Claudia Shear…

…film director John Waters…

…Sharon Gless, star of TV’s Queer as Folk and Cagney & Lacey…

…and high-profile American Idol drop-out, Mario Vazquez.

We leave you with a little bit of Elvis history, past and present. Pictured here is Jackson, dressed as Chad, with Priscilla Presley, former wife of the King himself! They posed for photos outside the Palace before Wednesday evening’s performance of the show.