The Rat Pack - Live from Las Vegas

Synopsis

The action is set in the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas where, in 1960 during the filming of Ocean's Eleven, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr, Joey Bishop and Peter Lawford first performed together on stage for the first time. From then on, they were known as the Rat Pack and Las Vegas was their domain - everywhere else, in Rat Pack vocabulary, was "Dullsville, Ohio".

Our Review:

19 March 2003

Note: The following review dates from March 2003 and this production's first West End season at the Theatre Royal Haymarket.

The doors of the Theatre Royal Haymarket are currently doubling as a portal to the swinging sixties. On the 18th-century stage a very 20th-century rostra of white steps holds a 15-piece orchestra and a baby grand lit with a kaleidoscope of brilliant colours. It seems rather odd then that, here at the Sands hotel Las Vegas, we're sat in pews rather than at cocktail tables.

The original Rat Pack consisted of Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr, Dean Martin, Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop and were so christened by Lauren Bacall. We are treated to an evening with the first three, the A-list nucleus of the real-life hell-raisers.

Banners displaying the real McCoys' portraits watch over the stage and, as a trio of impersonators appear, it's impossible not to compare. None of them are exactly doppelgangers. In fact, it's not until they start to sing when ...

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86.135.20.63) - 18 July 2006:

There appear to be a lot of issues around this show which put me off. Haven't seen it, but for people to make comments like that below is not good. That person should take up his issues with the management, not air them on here....

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