The Rat Pack - Live From Las Vegas is a stage musical produced by Flying Music Ltd. that retells the tale of the big three of the Rat Pack - Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr. and Dean Martin.
The production has toured the UK three times as well as European and American tours.
The show began its successful West End run in 2003 at Theatre Royal Haymarket before transferring to Strand Theatre (now Novello Theatre). The original West End cast starred Mark Adams (Dean Martin), George Daniel Long (Sammy Davis Jr.), and Stephen Triffitt (Frank Sinatra). In May 2005, the show transferred to the Savoy Theatre.
The show has performed twice in The Journal Tyne Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne.
A new limited season was performed at the Adelphi Theatre in London from September 2009 to January 2010 starring Craige Els (Dean Martin), Giles Terrera (Sammy Davis Jr.), and Louis Hoover (Frank Sinatra).
It currently holds the record for playing in the most houses in London's West End as of July 2011. The production originally opened at the Peacock Theatre before transferring to the Theatre Royal Haymarket for a limited season. From there it went on to play a three year season at the Novello Theatre before transferring to the Savoy Theatre. It reopened for limited Christmas dates at both the London Palladium and Theatre Royal Drury Lane before a Christmas season at the Adelphi Theatre in 2009. In 2011 it will return once again, this time to the Wyndham's Theatre.
Famous quotes containing the words rat, live and/or vegas:
“I am not yet born; O hear me.
Let not the bloodsucking bat or the rat or the stoat or the
club-footed ghoul come near me.”
—Louis MacNeice (1907–1963)
“It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!”
—Dolores Ibarruri (La Pasionaria)
“Shoot, a fellow could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.”
—Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928)