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Frank Sinatra performs Thursday In the Devsney Cpcrta Center.
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classics at Devaney
By Jeff Goodwin
Frank Sinatra performed at the Bob Devaney
Sports Center Thursday night and proved that, gray
hair notwithstanding, he still has the ability to
captivate a crowd.
This was fortunate for the audience of 11,000 as
the other two performances by the Buddy Rich
Orchestra and comedian Tom Dreesen were less
than satisfying.
The problem with the Rich Orchestra, which
opened the show, was not their playing, which was
excellent, but rather the brevity of their perfor
mance. The band performed only four songs before
the show broke for intermission.
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Dreesen's performance, which followed the inter
mission, was definitely the low-point of the night.
His jokes were old, stale, racist and sexist. And, even
worse, they weren't funny. Dreesen would be a lot
better off playing the Holiday Inn in Anchorage, Ala.
Then the MAN came on. 01' Blue Eyes. Mia
Farrow's ex. The leader of the Rat Pack. And so on
and so on.
It was apparent that Sinatra had the mostly
middle and older aged crowd in his pocket. As he
swung into "I've Got the World on a String," a man in
front of me clenched his fist and said, more to
himself than anyone else, "Yeah, tell 'em Frankie."
Sinatra followed that with a string of favorites
including such classics as, "I Got You Under my Skin"
and "Come Rain or Come Shine."
About halfway through his performance, Sinatra
went into a five minute monologue on what num
skulls the Democratic presidential candidates are
(Their theme song is 'Send in the Clowns' ") and
what a terrific guy Ronald Reagan is.
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