"Stump the Rach" with Harry Connick, Jr.

Aired on: March 8, 2011

It's Fat Tuesday, and no one knows Mardi Gras like New Orleans native Harry Connick, Jr. Rachael wants to know if he celebrates the festival as much with his family at his current home in Connecticut. "You know, we party so hard in New Orleans when I'm down there, it kind of leap frogs all the way through [to Connecticut]," Harry says. "I mean, these things go on all night! And it must mean that I'm getting old, but I can't take it, man! I don't think I can do it every year."

In 2010, Harry performed for 15 nights on Broadway, but would the crooner ever consider an extended Vegas run like Bette or Elton? "That's one of those deals where you really have to think - and this is a horrible thing to say - it's really about the money. And I'll tell you why: I got three kids, we love living here, and for me to pick up and move to Las Vegas, which is a city I love, to do a show every night for years ... they would have to write a pretty sizable check, you know what I mean?"

After a pause, Harry adds, "That doesn't mean I wouldn't do it!"