Rick Faugno Pays Homage to His Idols Tomorrow at South Point Casino!
March 20th, 2010
Rick Faugno rehearses a dance number for the debut of his first solo show, “Songs My Idols Sang (And Danced).†(Photo Credit: Leila Navidi)
Tomorrow afternoon at 3PM, Rick Faugno reprises his fantastic one-man show, “Songs My Idols Sang (And Danced” at the South Point Casino!
Las Vegas Sun’s John Katsilometes has a marvelous interview with Rick. Here’s a preview:
Rick Faugno is 30 years old, so naturally he grew up as a big fan of … Sammy Davis Jr.
Fred Astaire, too. Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly. The usual suspects. The anti-“boy band†crew.
Having been raised with parents who were “a bit older, shall we say,†Faugno is a throwback artist who performs the roles of Frankie Valli (toggling with Travis Cloer) in the outstanding production “Jersey Boys†at Palazzo. But, similar to Cloer and such former “Jersey Boys†cast members such as the since-departed Erik Bergen, Faugno is not satisfied with residing only on the Jersey shore.
“I’ve really become interested in performing not as a character, as myself,†says Faugno, who a genuine song-and-dance man who is bringing his one-man show to South Point on at 3 p.m. Sunday. “It’s a lot more difficult to fill 80 minutes as yourself than you might think.â€
Titled, “Songs My Idols Sang (And Danced),†which plays off the title of his new CD (same name, in other words), the show should show the multifaceted Faugno at his best. Those who knew him only as one of the Four Seasons in the Strip stage show were impressed with his song-and-dance performance at Bill Fayne’s benefit show at Suncoast earlier this month. If nothing else, Faugno might be the best young tap-dancer in town.
“It comes from my dad, who tap danced since he was a kid,†he said during a phone interview last week. “He did vaudeville shows, minstrel shows, and a lot of the kids who I grew up with in the sticks of Massachusetts had been exposed to the things I’d been exposed to.
Read the full interview on LasVegasSun.com.
To purchase tickets to tomorrow’s show, visit southpointcasino.com or call 702-797-8055.
