Posted 6:50 AM by Gene

DAVID CASSIDY (!) does THE RAT PACK -- with SPECIAL GUEST STAR BOBBY DARIN!!!!!

The actor would sit in the audience until one of the Rat Packers would say, "And now we have a special guest, Mr. Bobby Darin!"

Cassidy, says a source, would then "come out of the audience like a bolt of lightning," performing his two songs — "Mack the Knife" and "Beyond the Sea" — "with the energy of a tsunami."

He'd bound over to the saxophone player and shout in his ear: "Hey, man, give me the reeds!"

"The guy playing the saxophone was terrified," says a production source. "He winced every time David came near him."

Cassidy also exhorted the audience to snap their fingers along with him.

If not enough people started snapping, he'd yell: "Hey, I said, snap your fingers!"

"They were trying to eat, but he was so aggressive, they'd drop their knives and forks and try to snap with him," says a source.

It wasn't easy, since Cassidy sometimes had trouble finding the beat, so the finger snapping was all over the place.

Dave, you oughta come to Branson East -- the NEW AUDIOANIMATRONICS CAPITAL of the WORLD!

P. S. The show is closed, and not for repairs -- but our invitation is ALWAYS open!

P. P. S. EXCELLENT NEWS: The Supper Club has replaced David's Rat Pack with THE RAT PACK!!

Or rather with "Gary Anthony as Frank Sinatra, Russ Loniello as Dean Martin and Louis Velez as Sammy Davis Jr."

Gary, Russ and Louis -- perhaps we can get it to have a kind of ring to it.

Maybe they can still get Dave to jump up on the stage as Bobby Darin and bother the sax man, if they have one.

BETTER: It's coming straight from engagements in "London, Las Vegas, Branson, MO, and Europe"!!!!! (I guess London's not in Europe.) Branson East's getting more like the real thing every day!

Or as this hack must say, it's "coming in to fill the void", which suggests a void's filling a void left by a void.

[First link updated 9/7/2008]