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Donny and Marie together again at the Flamingo

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Mar 9, 2009

Some siblings like to boast about how well they get along. Others will unabashedly tell you that they fight all the time. Then there’s Donny and Marie, who will just give you “a song and dance” –- which is more than worth the price of admission to to their nightly show at the Flamingo.      

“We enjoy working with each other 99 percent of the time,” Donny grins. “We won’t talk about the other 1 percent.”      

"The way Donny and I resolve issues is I say: ‘It has to be this way,’ Marie quips. “And then Donny thinks it over and says ‘Yes. You’re right.’ Besides, I have to be more careful about pushing him around now. He’s in his 50s…his bones are more brittle.”      

That’s the type of good-natured bantering you’ll hear between the siblings during “Donny and Marie at the Flamingo.” It’s a big high-energy production with fun costumes and sets that has the pair each doing solo segments as well as segments together and even has them dancing with twenty-something hoofers. Tinged with the nostalgia of yesterday, thanks to multi-media that includes pictures of the “The Donny and Marie Show” from the 1970s and video from, it fully depicts the Donny and Marie of today.      

Donny is definitely more than “a little bit rock ‘n’ roll,” and Marie exhibits her “little bit country” by singing tunes like “Paper Roses.” But both have starred in shows on Broadway, and the music performed throughout the evening takes in the gamut of genres. Marie even sings opera and does a dancing bit a la “Dancing with the Stars” – without fainting.      

Donny-and-Marie-mania has already extended them through October 2010.      

"We just do our gig and work hard,” Donnie said. “We don’t want to pat ourselves on the back. We just keep working. I do think that the audience still looks at us as little kids and they get that memory intertwined with us as adults. When I sing ‘Puppy Love,’ even I feel like a kid again.”             .    

- by Bobbie Katz, Las Vegas Reporter for HelloMetro  (Click to leave a message)