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Elvis comes back as a ghost in a noh theater play

The king of rock ’n’ roll, Elvis Presley, has had many reimaginings in popular culture, but Japanese noh theater might be one of his most unexpected contexts yet. Nonetheless his ghost will be on stage in Tokyo on Oct. 10 and 11.Theatre Nohgaku will bring its original noh play “Blue Moon Over Memphis” to the sophomore edition of Autumn Meteorite Tokyo, one of Japan’s largest performing arts festivals that takes place at the Tokyo Metropolitan…

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