The photographer Jordan Matter asked me to be in his book Dancers After Dark. I loved the picture so much I recorded my live album back at the Cafe Carlyre just as an excuse to put the image on the cover!!
Below id Jordan’s blog about the shoot and also a video of me telling Seth Myers all about it
I wrote and directed this short film for the W Hotel Times Square in support of the animal adoption charity Broadway Barks. My friend and long time collaborator Ned Stresen-Reuter shot and edited it, and it was premiered at a party at the W Times Square on December 8th. It marked the movie debut of my dog Jerry, and the final appearance of our dear departed Leon.
I flew to Scotland to shoot an episode of NBC's 1stLookTv. The show was organised by Visit Scotland and was designed to encourage Americans to visit my homeland. The show's host, George Oliphant, and I traveled across the country, making stops in Glasgow, Edinburgh, my birthplace Aberfeldy and up various hills and in many bars!
I appeared in a video segment of the musical theater piece Lazarus, written by David Bowie and Enda Walsh and directed by Ivo Van Howe, at the New York Theater Workshop. The piece is based on the novel The Man Who Fell To The Earth.
I did a cameo in my old chum Bianca Del Rio's movie, Hurricane Bianca.
The seventh season began with big big changes for Eli! he got fired! but it wasn’t too long before he was back in the Florrick fray.
This picture below is me with the show’s creators Robert and Michelle King, just after I wrapped my very last scene. I always used to ruffle up my hair and take my tie off and put it on my head every day after I was wrapped. It was my way of beginning the process of getting rid of Eli
I started writing a column for the Globe and Mail newspaper in Canada.
Click on them below to read them...
Sep 2nd With Serena Williams, karaoke never sounded so sweet
August 19th In August, do as Edinburgh does - immerse yourself in culture
August 5th Cecil is the Princess Diana of the Wild Kingdom
July 22nd Gotta love Manhattan -but I miss my husband and our country retreat
July 8th The normal side of a celebrity life
June 24th Pride isn't about costumes any more. Today, we all have reason to celebrate.
June 10th Hosting the Tonys was terrifying - and surprising
May 27th My favourite thing about life in Australia
May 13th Delightful family dysfunction at Disney World
April 29th Hair is a symbol of freedom, yet it is often outwith my control
April 15th The healing power of life's unexpected twists
April 1st Evaporating into the showbiz ether
March 18th To confront fear, jump right into the thick of it
I took part in Safe Horizon's PSA to end domestic violence.
On June 7th, I co-hosted the Tony Awards with Kristin Chenoweth. I wrote about the experience in my Globe and Mail column days later
Some more clips and roundups of the night can be seen here
I am performed a lot of concerts this year. I played Ft Lauderdale, New Orleans, San Francisco, Buck's County, Carnegie Hall with the NY Pops, a two week run of my new show Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs at the Cafe Carlyle and then Saratoga, the Ravinia festival in Chicago, Bard College Spiegeltent, Indianapolis, Kean University, Scottsdale, Atlantic City, New Bedford.
At the end of the year I went to Australia and performed in Brisbane, Lismore, Melbourne and Sydney.
I shot a series of short interviews about iconic moments in people’s lives entitled, “Remember That Time.” We shot them at Sardi’s, the legendary theater restaurant in New York City, and they were first broadcast on CBS All Access.
