David Cassidy’s Las Vegas stretch started in 1996, when he replaced former “Phantom of the Opera” star Michael Crawford as the lead actor in “EFX,” a show at the MGM Grand.

David Cassidy then wrote and appeared in “At the Copa,” a Broadway-style musical in which he and Sheena Easton portrayed nightclub singers that ran for 12 months at Rio, from January 2000 to January 2001.