Tickets go on sale for ?The Rat Pack?
?The Rat Pack? transports the audience to the early 1960s, when Frank and his pals were filming the original version of the casino robbery caper ?Ocean?s Eleven? in Las Vegas. The Sands Hotel was featured prominently in the film which included solo performances by Frank, Sammy, and Dean.
The Rat Pack legend was born when Frank and Dean spontaneously joined Sammy on stage and, to the surprise and delight of the audience, playfully interrupted his act. Subsequent nights the three of them were on stage together. There were hi-jinks and horseplay. They crooned, they quipped and they rolled out the gags right along with their on-stage liquor cart.
?The Rat Pack? is just as the name implies,” said Kathleen O?Brien, TPAC?s president and chief executive officer. “Seeing this performance will be like experiencing a piece of Las Vegas history, as TPAC’s Jackson Hall is transformed into the Sands Hotel and audiences are whisked away to these legendary concerts by three of America?s most beloved artists. The show is brimming with a selection of favorite standards ? ?New York, New York,? ?That?s Amore,? ?Everybody Loves Somebody? ? just to name a few. These songs are nostalgic and timeless, and fans of all ages will experience firsthand how The Rat Pack, and these concerts, contributed to music.”
Director and choreographer Mitch Sebastian re-creates the magic that was the Rat Pack on stage. Performers Stephen Triffitt (Frank), David Hayes (Sammy) and Nigel Casey (Dean) evoke all the glamour of that notorious nightclub gig when the audience was glittered with the likes of Marilyn Monroe, Gregory Peck, Judy Garland, Tony Curtis, Sam Giancana and Jack Kennedy. It?s an evening of wisecracking, hip-cat nostalgia: a cool mix of sharpies and broads singing some of the finest music ever written.
This sensational production celebrates the incredible talents of these three larger than life entertainers — legends in their own time. There?s a fifteen-piece on-stage big band, and, of course, it wouldn?t be The Rat Pack without some fabulous broads: Meet Emily Hawgood, Andrea Winglelaar and Giselle Wright as the beautiful back up singers and dancers The Burelli Sisters.
Tickets for ?The Rat Pack? range from $20 to 65, depending upon performance times and seat locations. For tickets, visit the TPAC Box Office (Downtown or at Davis-Kidd Booksellers in The Mall at Green Hills), online at www.tpac.org and www.broadwayacrossamerica.com, or any Ticketmaster outlet. Tickets may also be purchased by calling Ticketmaster at 615-255-ARTS (2787). For information on offers for groups of 20 or more, call TPAC Group Sales at 615-782-4060.