I narrated the story of The Nutcracker and the Mouse King with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, under the musical direction of my old chum John Mauceri, who I first met when Victor and Barry did a commercial for Scottish Opera in 1987! Then he conducted me when I sang with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra in 1999!
Och and Oy!
My chum Ari Shapiro, he of NPR’s All Things Considered and erstwhile crooner with Pink Martini, decided to collaborate on a show and the result was Och and Oy! A Considered Cabaret
It’s a collection of songs and stories compiled from our seemingly very disparate lives and personalities, but in the course of the show we find out that we aren’t so different after all. We premiered it over Labor Day 2019 with a short run at the Crown and Anchor in Provincetown, Massachusetts (we called it out soft opening!) and because we had so much fun there we plan to take it on the road!
We were joined by musical director Henry Koperski
Legal Immigrant for Audible
I recorded my cabaret show Legal Immigrant for Audible’s theatre division. We recorded it over two nights at the Minetta Lane Theatre in New York City. After the first night, there was a party at which many old chums came along to support me!
Legal Immigrant
I went back on the road with my band for the final leg of the Legal Immigrant tour. We began in NYC where we performed two shows at the Minetta Lane Theatre which were recorded for Audible Theatre
We then went to California and did one performance of Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs (my previous cabaret show which we actually hadn’t performed for over a year!), then back to Legal Immigrant inEscondido, Orange, Santa Barbara, then to Sarasota and Naples in Florida, Bethesda MD and Troy NY.