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Louis and Keely are movin on up!
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Vanessa Claire Smith and Jake Broder (Haven Hartmen)
It’s always sorta cool when something starts out at a small house, develops a following, and moves into a larger venue. Having a show plucked out of a 99 seater and moved into a place like the Geffen Playhouse is practically unheard of. But it can happen (Anyone else remember “War Music”) and now it’s happened again.
“Louis & Keely Live at the Sahara,” the two-hander written and performed by Vanessa Claire Smith and Jake Broder, moves onto the Geffen’s smaller Audrey Skirball Kenis stage where it will play from March 15 to April 26. The show charts the birth of Vegas lounge acts, depicting Louis Prima’s mentoring of 16 year old Keely Smith.
For the Geffen engagement, the show’s got a new book, new songs and a new director, no less than Taylor Hackford, the Oscar-nominated director of “Ray” (no truth to the rumor that Hackford’s Mrs., Helen Mirren, is understudying the role of Keely.)
That’s right, where people once paid in the $25 to $30 for tickets to “Louis and Keely“ when the show was at the Sacred Fools Theatre, it will now run you $45 to $65. At that price, in this economy, you’d expect tix to be obtainable. They were not so easily had when the show was packing ’em in first at the Fools and later at the Matrix. The show’s former publicist says that fistfights would break out over tickets.
How very Vegas!
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