David Cassidy in the News

Cassidy's 'Copa'

September 17, 2000

By Miriam Di Nunzio
The Chicago Sun Times

LAS VEGAS--David Cassidy once boasted the largest fan club in the world. No small feat, considering his contemporaries included Elvis Presley and the Beatles.

Cassidy, unlike those other musical legends, had one huge advantage: He came into our living rooms every week on the hit TV series "The Partridge Family," where he starred as Keith Partridge, teen idol.

But his real love was music, and not just any music. Though he sold more than 25 million records and earned several Grammy Award nominations for his pop hits, Cassidy says he lives to sing the standards. And his new Las Vegas musical revue, "At the Copa," which opened in February, affords him the chance to do just that six nights a week at the Rio All-Suite Casino Resort.

The production, which co-stars former pop queen Sheena Easton, tells the tale of a waiter in a 1940s nightclub who gets his big chance at stardom while falling in love with the club's torchy songstress. All of it is set to wonderful standards such as "That Old Black Magic," "Try a Little Tenderness" and Cassidy's personal favorite, "Mack the Knife."

"I was a huge Bobby Darin fan," Cassidy says enthusiastically. "I used to do `Lazy River' in my concerts, because it was one of my favorite Darin arrangements. He was an unsung genius."

Not exactly the musicspeak one might expect to hear from the pop singer who charted megahits such as "I Think I Love You," "I Woke Up in Love This Morning" and "Cherish." Or from the actor who found fame in musical theater while starring in productions of "Blood Brothers" (which co-starred real-life brother, Shaun) and "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat."

"With `Copa,' I wanted to do a hybrid between a Broadway musical and a concert performance of David Cassidy, " the 51-year-old entertainer explains. "But I wanted it t

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