On an impulse my brother and I ended up with tickets to the Rat Pack at the Savoy. It feels like this tribute show to Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Junior and Dean Martin has been on for a very long time but obviously it is still as popular as ever from how packed the theatre was.

The show really is more about the music than anything else. I mean – it was really a great era of music. We were entertained by an ensemble of this such as The Lady is a Tramp, I’ve Got You Under My Skin, Candyman, Mr Bojangles, That’s Amore, and New York New York (the city so great it was named twice) but as the show went on I thought the performances got slightly weaker.

The three leads playing Frank, Sammy and Dean were okay. I thought Frank was played a little square and Dean a little too camp but overall I guess it was a fair imitation of the trio. Sammy’s over the top characterisation was probably the best of the three. And the leads were well supported by the brilliant band and “Berelli Sisters”.

The die-hard fans were quite entertaining (for a bit) with their shakin’ and rockin’ enough to disturb our seating and the singing – well, I would prefer that if you can’t you don’t!

PS We had front row seats and I was pleased to see that we had a pretty good view of the entire stage .. feet included!