She takes a seat at a table in a room packed with women anticipating the USDA Prime selection of male dancers at Saturday night’s edition of Magic Mike Live Las Vegas. A few good men are in the audience joining wives, partners and friends out of curiosity or obligation, but she is solitary as a murmur of voices becomes a mix of cheers and screams and a group of dancers makes its way toward her. They are … completely inept.
That’s OK. She is actually Magic Mike Live Las Vegas’ newest emcee—Jaclyn Marfuggi, who now alternates with original company member Chelsea Phillips-Reid as the host of the proceedings, and starts out the show as an audience plant. A New Jersey girl and veteran of L.A. comedy clubs The Comedy Store, HaHa Comedy Club, The Hollywood Improv and The Laugh Factory, Marfuggi has a long curriculum vitae that includes work in film, dance, fitness, podcasting and stand-up.
Her casting in Magic Mike Live Las Vegas as the hype woman who holds the acts together and interacts with dancers was a serendipitous career she immediately embraced. The cast and crew made that easy.
“I was just like, ‘Yes! I love these people! I love their energy!’” says newlywed Marfuggi, who flew to Vegas from her honeymoon in Milan to start rehearsals for her July 27 debut. “I had no idea of the spectacle that it was and it absolutely blew me away. Everyone has been nothing but amazing.”
Great personnel in a Vegas production can make all the difference and is palpable in presentation. Magic Mike Live Las Vegas has all the bases covered, from talent and choreography to cultivating near-riot hysterics from the audience. Marfuggi is a natural at channeling that energy, amplifying it and relaying it back to the crowd.
“Moving to Las Vegas and this whole experience has been very eye-opening in a great way,” says Marfuggi, whose stand-up and Where Should We Eat? podcast will inevitably be influenced by her latest gig. “I definitely have material. I’m not going to lie.”
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