Parents at an elementary school in Wales were looking forward to seeing their kids in the school’s annual Christmas pageant. But there was a catch; parents were all shook up to see a little Elvis among the Christmas elves. Nine-year-old Oscar Wilkins took to the stage in his unusual costume, where he wasn’t exactly greeted with a hunka hunka burnin’ love.
Nine-year-old Oscar Wilkins, from Aberdare, Wales, had been given the role of ‘Elvis the Elf’ in the production at his primary school last week, but his family said he failed to mention that Elvis was an elf.
They then sought a costume for the Graceland star – and only realised the error when he stepped out on stage.
Oscar embraced his starring role and found the whole thing hilarious, with his sister, Jade Smith, 28, saying the audience couldn’t help but fall in love with it.
‘He came home from school, and all the children had a bit of paper telling what they were in the concert,’ she said.
‘His letter said a sparkly Elvis costume. It did not say Elvis the Elf, so we all just stupidly thought it was Elvis Presley.’
Honestly, that’s what I would have thought. A bit of an odd request, perhaps, but who knows what’s traditional in Wales? As for young Mr. Wilkins, don’t be cruel. There’s no reason to send the young man to the Heartbreak Hotel.
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Besides, it’s not the first time the school has made an unusual costume request.
In a previous year, Oscar had been cast as an alien, which is why his family didn’t question the role.
‘We asked him if he was sure he meant Elvis, and he said yes with a sparkly costume. He did not mention anything about an elf,’ she said.
‘The only thing he was not happy with was that his costume was not sparkly enough. We sent him to school in the wrong costume, and they all saw the funny side.’
His parents, clearly, are not possessed of suspicious minds.
True story: In 2008, my first major science-fiction novel, The Crider Chronicles, won a Reader’s Choice Award, which resulted in me being invited to that year’s Dragon-Con, an enormous sci-fi/fantasy convention held in three enormous conference hotels in Atlanta, Georgia; attendance is normally in the tens of thousands. The place was rampant with people in various costumes – I even saw several Lazarus Longs, so my literary hero Robert Heinlein was there in spirit. But the best one I saw was a guy in a textbook-perfect, professional-grade Darth Vader costume. The Vader suit was perfect, but only went up to the guy’s neck. From the neck up? Elvis. I heard later that he called himself “Darth Presley.”
I first saw him in one of the big hotel atriums. I came around a corner, and there he was, walking towards me, with a trail of amused people following him. I must have looked dumbstruck, because he walked up to me, grinned, pointed with both fingers in a very Elvis-like manner, and said, in a perfect Elvis voice: “I find your lack of faith disturbing. Thank you very much.” He winked and went on his way.
There really is no bad place for a good Elvis impersonation, whether it be in a huge convention venue or an elementary school in Wales. Thanks to young Oscar for reminding us of that. Thank you very much!
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