Jersey Boys Blog

Tommy was wrong! Not everyone can remember, especially when it’s a birthday celebration in Las Vegas.

Susie is a little foggy on some of the details from last weekend, but this is how it was. First, we had cocktails, dinner, and dancing at the fabulous Foundation Room on top of Mandalay Bay with Susie’s cordial colleague Caroline and her genius rocket scientist husband Tim. The Foundation Room is one of the coolest places in Vegas with the best view of The Strip. After dinner, the bar becomes a night club with a DJ. It was totally off the hook.

So far so good. This is where it starts to get fuzzy. Tim starts carrying Susie to the valet and then hands her off to me. When we are in our room, Susie passes out before I can get back to the room with a bucket of ice for a glass of water before bed. We used the ice the next morning on our poor aching heads and slept ’til after 3:00PM.

But nothing was going to stop us from seeing our favorite show. After some dinner at Japonais at the Mirage, we met big JB fan Krystal and her husband Chris Thomsen before the second Jersey Boys show. Row J, center cut, it was all great, and of course because it is live theater, it is always fresh and new.

Following the show, we talked to Travis Cloer about his tremendous performance as “Frankie.” After hearing him for the first time, we know we have to go back. We also got to talk to multi-talented cast members Kristofer McNeeley and Jason Martinez–and I embarrassed Susie with tales of her chicken chasing and naming a horse in our neighborhood, Lorraine. It turns out I actually called the horse Lorraine first.

After a champagne brunch the next morning, we went to Sigfried and Roy’s Secret Garden and saw dolphins, lions, tigers, llamas and a jaguar.

So, even though some of us may have a little trouble remembering all of it, where it really counts, I will always remember it as one of the best birthdays ever!

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Figures, the A$$hole would remember the camera this time!

I’ve been pretty quiet ’til now, but some things are gettin’ left out. That’s the thing about the Tech Half–he’s into the basic facts–not the rest of the story…

Friday evening began with Caroline toasting my birthday with one of our favorite cocktails, a Sea Breeze! Being a big JB fan, she raised her glass and stated, “The Sea Breeze Lounge is proud to present the return engagement of the international recording stars, The Four Seasons!” It gets pretty fuzzy after that…

The show? We may have looked a little rough in the photos due to Friday night’s escapades, but we saw one of the best Jersey Boys performances–EVER! The entire cast was SPECTACULAR! For the last year and a half or so, we’ve been reading updates about Travis Cloer’s performances as Frankie on Broadway: Comments from Audrey, Howard, Beverely, Irene….so many others….They all told us “it wasn’t no vision”! Travis is a FANTASTIC FRANKIE–in his acting, with his beautiful falsetto, and his rendition of “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You” brought the Palazzo house down!

By the way–you’re ever in Vegas, walk into the Foundation Room, and say “Jersey Boys Blog”–My hand to God, you’ll be outta there in about twelve seconds.