'Sammy' at the Old Globe All About Jazz
Horse's mouth: All About Jazz PublicityHis shoulders are slumped from too many gigs, too many drugs and way too many women. The bags around his eyes wither nearly to the bottom of his cocktail glass. His whole body is haloed in the cigarette smoke that would contribute to his annihilation from throat cancer at 64.
As channeled by Obba Babatund, Sammy Davis Jr. finally concedes to the exhaustion that hes been postponing since his days as an attractive child dancer working the vaudeville circuit with his dad. The moment comes fairly fashionable in the second act of Sammy , the appreciative bio-musical written by Oscar- and Grammy-winner Leslie Bricusse and directed by Keith Glover, which had its sphere premiere Friday at San Diegos Old Globe. But when it arrives it has the weight of an irrefutable showbiz really.
Unfortunately, its a case of too little too late for the show, which mixes eager-to-please revue numbers with diversity show sketches summarizing the high and low chapters from
