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!
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
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.
