SANDY HACKETT’S RAT PACK GOES ‘GLEE’!

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The Talented Cast Of The Vegas-Based Hit
Production Debut Their Spirited, Mob-Themed
Music Video For The Classic, “Mack The Knife,”
On March 24

Wherever he is, Bobby Darin’s “showing them pearly whites”—no doubt grinning from ear to ear at the fun-filled, old school gangster themed video for the classic song “Mack The Knife” starring the cast of “Sandy Hackett’s Rat Pack Show,” currently packing them in five nights a week at the Riviera Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.

Unique in its visual and vocal interpretation of the song, the video is now available online at www.SandysRatPack.com and on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyQnJkh8JFA&feature=channel_video_title. The show debuted the video to its live audience immediately following its performance last night at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas.

Fresh off the impressive success of their first music videos which they produced for young singing sensation Oliver Richman’s “Defying Gravity,” and “One Little Christmas Tree,” creators Lisa Dawn Miller, Mark Matson and Sandy Hackett gleefully bring this colorful music video which incorporates live performance footage into a “Glee”-inspired dramatization of the iconic song.

Combining  “Old Vegas” with “New Vegas,” the ten-minute video starts off with Hackett (son of legendary comedian Buddy Hackett), whose own past is rich in Vegas history, reminiscing about “Old Vegas” as he shares with his son, 10-year-old Oliver Richman, how things “used to be.” Cast members of Sandy Hackett’s Rat Pack Show portray the “Rat Pack” who in turn, get into all kinds of trouble, as they become the gangsters they sing about so well, with FrankSinatra (David DeCosta), Sammy Davis, Jr. (Doug Starks), Dean Martin (Johnny Edwards), Joey Bishop (Sandy Hackett) and Frank’s One Love (Lisa Dawn Miller). Riviera Hotel & Casino President, Robert Vannucci, makes a cameo appearance.

“We’re so happy with the success of the show,” says Miller. “We wanted to do something different in a way that only we could do it! The reaction to the music videos we produced for Oliver and the attention we have gotten as a production team has been so amazing that we wanted to think outside the box on this one too. Instead of just creating a standard promo video of the show, we said let’s do something wonderful that has never been done before! We had a lot of fun filming and a lot of talent. Just like the real Rat Pack in 1960, we filmed during the day and performed live at night!”

Hackett-Miller Productions is currently working on Richman’s next recording, “I Can See,” one of the previously unreleased gems penned by Lisa Miller’s father, legendary songwriter Ron Miller (“For Once In My Life”). Miller hopes to bring public many of the hundreds of her father’s songs discovered only after his death in 2007. In December Richman and Miller were invited by Stevie Wonder to perform at his House Full of Toys Benefit Concert and in April, Richman will be featured on “The Young Icons,” a new show about young people changing the world, produced by Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios. Miller will be releasing her new, highly-anticipated CD in July 2011. Hackett runs the Riviera Comedy Club in which he appears weekly.

“Sandy Hackett’s Rat Pack Show” runs five nights a week (Tuesday through Saturday) at 7 p.m. Tickets can be purchased online at http://www.rivierahotel.com/entertainment/rat_pack.asp or www.SandysRatPack.com .