In between filming seasons one and two of The Good Wife, The Runaway in South Africa and Who Do You Think You Are?, I managed to fit in a few concerts this year! I did two week long engagements of at Feinstein's in New York City, as well as Broad Stages in Santa Monica, the Castro Theatre in San Francisco and back on the east coast at Fire Island's Whyte Hall (where I id a hybrid show called Alan Cumming: Uncut! , before returning to the 2X2 festival in Dallas in October.

in August I finally took my cabaret show home.

I did three performances of I Bought A Blue Car Today at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in the Assembly Hall, the historic venue on the Mound, the former home of the Church of Scotland and the Scottish parliament. There is a statue of John Knox in the courtyard, and I wondered (aloud) during the show what he would make of me and what I had to say!

In many ways, it was a full circle experience for me. I cut my teeth at the Edinburgh Fringe as a young drama student doing cabaret in the mid eighties, with Victor and Barry. They went on to become the festival darlings for many years. But I hadn't performed on the Fringe since 1991, and so coming back with a cabaret of my own was a really amazing feeling. I'm older, wiser and ballsier, and finally able to share it with my homeland in a show that has so much to do with my Scottishness both in content and in the style of performance. So this was good times.

Here's a little report from NY1 about my run in Edinburgh.