Priscilla Presley in panto! The former wife of the King strutting the stage in Milton Keynes! Can this be real? Indeed it can, and you can watch her and marvel until January 10.

To be honest, Ms Presley does not parade much in the way of acting skills to give us the Genie of the Lamp in Aladdin.

I don’t suppose she really did either in her best-known telly role as Jenna Wade in Dallas.

She revealed a notable gift for comedy, though, in The Naked Gun series of films and it is this ‘good sort’ side to her character that gets to be shown to the folk of Milton Keynes.

She even puts up with a corny series of references to Elvis’s classic hits shoehorned into the script – a surprisingly smutty one at times – from writer Eric Potts.

Priscilla’s real purpose in the show, of course, is simply to be there, so that we can all say we have seen her.

It was a similar story at the same venue in 2009 when Mickey Rooney gave us his Baron Hardup in Cinderella. We all like to clock a legend.

In fact, as ever in MK, there is a great deal more to delight in this colourful, musical panto.

Fun begins even before the curtain rises when a camera picks out members of the audience and shows the images on a huge screen, with speech bubbles supplying ‘victims’ with comic lines. “Where have I put my mother-in-law?” “She’s behind you!”

Ben Adams is in great voice as Aladdin. Likewise Aimie Atkinson as his squeeze Princess Jasmine.

Gary Wilmot is a hilarious dame and sings wonderfully too. His dancing days rather behind him, Wayne Sleep is a comically camp Genie of the Ring.

But the best all-round work is done by Kev Orkian who has the audience eating out of his hands as the matey WisheeWashee.

4/5