It is just after 2 p.m. at Michael Gaughan’s South Point Showroom on the south Strip. But the atmosphere is another time and place, maybe the early 1970s, maybe the Starlite Theater at the late Desert Inn.
The showman, who knows that place, is counted in and welcomed with a blanket of applause. Dennis Bono opens with “Call Me,” a swing version of a classic Chris Montez tune, as sung by Frank Sinatra. The crowd knows this one. They will also know, and sway along with, “Nobody Does It Better,” the final number, from the James Bond movie.
The backing band is led by pianist Joey Singer, for more than two decades Debbie Reynolds’ music director and a guy who can play anything.
