![]() Lee performs 30 songs from “Blue Suede Shoes” to a stirring rendition of “All My Trials.” Accompanied by a terrific band and dancers, Lee makes seven costume changes! The band, marvelous singer Felicity Raugust and newsreel footage of Elvis’ visits to Hawaii cover the changes. Lee takes the audience on an unforgettable musical and visual journey that is like no other Elvis show, because it is specifically by, for and about Hawaii. The show is based on Elvis’ relationship with Hawaii, which began in 1957 and culminated in 1973 in between, he did three films here and one other concert. For those of you whom this metaphor is too mechanical, it’s as if they had a great dish but found a new sauce that transformed it and made it even better. Darren Lee and his visionary executive producer, Mike Kattawar, have gone under the hood of “Burnin’ Love,” their Ferrari, and come out with a Buggati Veyron. “Burnin’ Love” is most definitely the exception to the clich. When it comes to performing arts, what that saying does is enshrine repetitiveness that ultimately sucks the life out of a performance, no matter how good it is. Lee is an artist, who, along with General Manager Rick Dunaj and Chris Coaley, have created a tribute show to the King that is reverential, accurate, astonishing and thoroughly entertaining. Lee isn’t an Elvis impersonator, although he looks and sounds enough like the King to be his doppelganger. LAHAINA – There is an old saying, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” When I saw “Burnin’ Love” last year, the talent of Darren Lee, the star of this show, impressed me. ![]() Darren Lee sings “Love Me Tender” to a “Burnin’ Love” patron.
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