Jerry Lewis returns to Las Vegas with a live show at South Point hotel-casino
Comedian and actor Jerry Lewis first performed in Las Vegas in 1949, with Dean Martin. Now Lewis is out to revive his decades-old routine on stage in Las Vegas.
Lewis, who’s 90 and needs a wheelchair to get around, will be seated for shows Sept. 30, and Oct. 1 and 2 at the South Point hotel-casino on Las Vegas Boulevard a few miles south of the Strip.
South Point sits in what was desert wasteland when Martin, who died in 1995, and Lewis performed at the Flamingo.
His return to the Sin City stage will, according to a publicist, include his trademark zany jokes and a cappella songs from some of the comedy duo’s movie classics.
In the 2013 drama “Max Rose,†Jerry Lewis played a retired jazz musician who, while mourning the death of his wife, becomes suspicious that she carried on a long-term affair with another man.
Lewis will also show Hollywood screen tests he filmed while working as a director. Some have never before been seen by his fans.
Tickets cost $50, $55 and $60.
Despite the “fragility†observed by The Times’ Mark Olson during a recent interview, Lewis is riding a wave thanks to the recent release of the movie “Max Rose.†It is his first leading role in more than 20 years.
In the film, Lewis plays an aging jazz musician coming to terms with the death of his wife, whom he suspects had been having an affair.
A longtime Las Vegas resident, Lewis got a break early in his career when he stood in for Judy Garland at the old New Frontier Hotel in August 1956. Garland, who had laryngitis, watched from the wings as the crowd cheered.
“That was the greatest night in my show business career,†he told UPI at the time.
Sixty years later, Lewis shows no signs of stopping. He told The Times he is working on a screenplay.
“I’m only 90, for Christ’s sake,†he said.
Info: South Point
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