The Rat Pack - Live from Las Vegas
Last night my guest and I enjoyed a Christmas treat with The Rat Pack - Live from Last Vegas at the Haymarket theatre in London (from January 9th to Saturday 3rd February 2018 it will be The Rat Pack - Live From Las Vegas celebrating Ella Fitzgerald’s centenary).
The celebrated West End production of the Olivier Award-nominated The Rat Pack - Live from Las Vegas, returns to the Theatre Royal, Haymarket – which was its home for its first West End run in 2003 - for a strictly limited season from Wednesday 13 December - Saturday 3 February.
The cast features Garrett Phillips as Frank Sinatra, Nigel Casey (Dean Martin), David Hayes (Sammy Davis Jr), with Joanna Walters, Amelia Adams-Pearce, Rebecca Parker and Laura Darton as The Burrelli Sisters.
Musical Director of the 12-piece Rat Pack Big Band is Matthew Freeman.
Nicola Emmanuelle will also join the show from Tuesday January 9
to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the First Lady
of Song and Queen of Jazz, Ella Fitzgerald. Songs featured in
this special edition of the production will include Night and
Day, The Lady is a Tramp, Mack the Knife and S’Wonderful.
From 13 December to 6 January, The
Rat
Pack - Live from Las
Vegas - devised, directed and choreographed by Mitch
Sebastian - will have a Christmas theme with the
Pack’s unique take on such festive classics as Baby It’s
Cold Outside, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, White
Christmas, Winter Wonderland, Jingle Bells and Let It Snow, Let
It Snow, Let It Snow.
The original show updated
At the start of the 1960s, The
Rat
Pack led by Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr.
were the toast of Las
Vegas. With the world’s rich and famous jetting in to see
them joke around and sing some of the finest songs ever written,
the guys also starred together in a series of glamorous Hollywood
films, set fashion trends, rubbed shoulders with the US
President, politicians and mobsters... and partied hard as the
coolest cats on the planet. The
Rat
Pack - Live from Las
Vegas recreates that special time. Prepare to drift back
in time to an era of glitzy nights spent on the
Vegas strip in the company of three of the world’s most
popular entertainers. This spectacular production - with a very
special Christmas theme until 6 January - celebrates the
incredible singing talent of three world-famous entertainers and
performers and some of the finest music and song that has ever
been recorded. Frank, Sammy and Dean are once again performing in
the world-renowned Copa Room at the famous Sands Hotel, supported
by the fabulous Burrelli Sisters and The
Rat
Pack Big Band in a critically acclaimed show that clocked
up over 1,000 West End performances on its West End premiere.
Frequently imitated but never bettered, The
Rat
Pack - Live from Las
Vegas features hit after hit, including
Pack favourites The Lady is a Tramp, Mr Bojangles, That’s
Amore, I’ve Got You Under My Skin, What Kind of Fool Am I?,
Volare, My Way, Candyman, Everybody Loves Somebody and many, many
more. If you wish you’d swung with the hardest partying
pack in town, now’s your chance!
With the arrival of Frank on the stage the show swings straight
into action and flows smoothly as we meet Sammy and then Dean.
Filled with fun and laughter, not to forget a song or two, this
will have you head nodding, knee and foot (and whatever else)
twitching along with tunes you will know. You may even be tempted
to sing along with some too.
The three main cast members were all superb and smoked and drank their way through the show (with the odd joke or two) engaging with the audience well.
The experience was slightly affected by a couple of rather inebriated girls in the row in front of us who swayed, chatted and whooped throughout, and a loved up couple next to them who maybe should have just got a room instead of going to see the show?
Nevertheless well worth a visit to see this show so catch it if you can.
Post London dates are detailed below. Enjoy and Happy Christmas!
The Rat
Pack -
Live from Las Vegas is produced by Paul Walden & Derek Nicol
for Flying Entertainment & TRH Productions
www.theratpacklivefromlasvegas.com
Following the West End season, The Rat
Pack -
Live from Las Vegas
featuring Ella Fitzgerald Centenary Celebration will
play:
Tuesday 6 - Saturday 10 February
Glasgow King’s Theatre
Tuesday 13 - Saturday 17 February
Liverpool Empire Theatre
Tuesday 20 - Saturday 24 February
Manchester Opera House
Tuesday 27 February - Saturday 3 March
Edinburgh Playhouse
Tuesday 6 - Saturday 10 March
Eastbourne Devonshire Park Theatre
Tuesday 13 - Saturday 17 March
Sunderland Empire Theatre
Tuesday 20 - Saturday 24 March
Cardiff New Theatre
Tuesday 27 - Saturday 31 March
Birmingham Alexandra Theatre
Monday 2- Saturday 7 April
Dublin Gaiety Theatre
Thursday 12- Saturday 14 April
Belfast Waterfront Hall
Tuesday 17- Saturday 21 April
Woking New Victoria Theatre
Tuesday 24 - Saturday 28 April
Blackpool Grand Theatre
Tuesday 1 - Saturday 5 May
Sheffield Lyceum Theatre
Tuesday 8 - Saturday 12 May
Darlington Hippodrome
Monday 14 - Saturday 19 May
Dartford Orchard Theatre
Tuesday 22 – Saturday 26 May
Bath Theatre Royal
Tuesday 29 May – Saturday 2 June
Crawley The Hawth
Tuesday 5 – Saturday 9 June
York Grand Opera House
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