Posted on 04/16/2002 12:51:32 PM PDT by Xenalyte
A musical about the life of the late Frank Sinatra will cover everything from his songs to his stormy love affairs and his alleged mob ties - and the scrawny kid from New Jersey will be played by an Englishman, no less.
According to Liz Smith writing in the New York Post, the show, We'll Take Sinatra: The Main Event, will open April 28 at the Venetian in Las Vegas.
Smith wrote that British actor and Sinatra look-a-like Stephen Triffitt will play Frank, and famous impersonator Bob Anderson will narrate the show and play the men of the Rat Pack and others central to Sinatra's life.
"This unauthorized musical biography has never been done before," Lou Alexander told Smith. "The information is all public domain, from books, newspapers and TV. We are staying away from his immediate family, so we don't expect any problems there."
Oh no? "... they don't expect any problems with the immediate family?" asked an incredulous Smith. "Just wait until Tina and Nancy read this item."
Not even if he stays in the background and just sings to you?
Dunce # 43 reporting in, sir ... you rang? <&;-)
Xena ... my two favorite Sinatra quotes...
"You only live once, and the way I live, once is enough."
"Fear is the enemy of logic. There is no more debilitating, crushing, self- defeating, sickening thing in the world--to an individual or to a nation."
Then again, it took me six days to find this thread.
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