Sandy hacketts rat pack show review
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As Sammy Davis Jr. (played by Doug Starks) tells you from the edge of the stage in "Sandy Hackett's Rat Pack Show," "Being in this business we call show calls for a lot of choices to be made."
Indeed, being a Las Vegas consumer calls for even a choice between two Rat Pack tributes.
Staggered show times do make it possible to see both of them back to back (Hackett's Joey Bishop tries to joke off his show's rough 5 p.m. slot at the Sahara). But only a stunt reviewer seeking a direct, head-on comparison would do such a cuckoo thing.
The main findings of this double-feature? A remarkable amount of repetition. So much that it's perhaps historic, as if two productions of "Jersey Boys" decided to go head to head.
These two aren't quite that identical. But they are the same by more than half, beyond the basic formula for saluting Frank Sinatra and pallies in their Sands-era prime: short solo segments for each character (with frequent interruptions), building to a summit at the booze cart.
It makes better sense if you know the two shows are products of a bitter divorce.
Hackett opened his show (subtitled "Shadows in the Desert") amid back-and-forth lawsuits late last year, after performer and co-partner Hackett left "The Rat Pack Is Ba
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Last night at the Strathmore the Rat Pack rose again. Sandy Hackett, the son of legendary comedian Buddy Hacket, played Joey Bishop, Tom Wallek was Dean Martin, Louie Velez, played Sammy Davis, Jr. and Danny Grewen was the Leader of the Pack-Frank Sinatra. All four were uncanny in resurrecting these four legendary Rat Pack members by recreating their voices and demeanors and wore attire that the Rat Pack wore when they performed in Las Vegas. These four talented artists evoked their powerful chemistry and risqué humor. This was a bromance that was fun to observe, interspersed with contemporaneous jokes – I don’t think they actually had Viagra yet – that elicited many laughs from the mostly ‘over 50 crowd’ who attended.
Lisa Dawn Miller, the daughter of the late songwriter Ron Miller and the wife of Sandy Hackett belted several of her father’s hits, including “For Once in My Life” and “I Should Have Said.” She is a capable singer, and has been producing and remaking many songs she found in her father’s archives, which had not been revealed in his lifetime.
These were men who relished their time away from their essential but irritating spouses and mother-in-laws, and who were free to drink up a storm and smo
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