June will absolutely be a month of bewitchment as Olivier and Tony Award winning Scottish actor, author and cabaret icon Alan Cumming returns down under for an encore season of his acclaimed cabaret, Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs.
Fans in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne will be treated to nights of Vaudevillian showbiz, mischief-making, show tunes and life-affirming laughs! The show will also make its Perth and Adelaide debut.
"Strength, warmth and honesty shine through in faultless performance...So hilarious, flirty and gorgeously filthy that it's hard to decide if you want him as a new best friend or a lover." - Sydney Morning Herald
Alan's diverse career has seen him set foot on world stages, making back to back films with Stanley Kubrick and Spice Girls; directing and starring in a musical condom commercial; creating voices of a Smurf, a goat and Hitler; entering upside down and suspended by his ankles in a Greek tragedy (in the National Theatre of Scotland’s The Bacchae); and recording an award-winning album of songs (plus a dance remix).
He played political maverick Eli Gold on CBS’s The Good Wife that earned him Golden Globe, Emmy, Screen Actors Guild and Satellite Award nominations and in 2015 finished his Tony Award-winning role of the Emcee in the Broadway musical Cabaret. Alan is also Host of PBS’s Masterpiece Mystery and appeared opposite Lisa Kudrow in Showtime’s Web Therapy.
Alan Cumming has written for The New York Times, Newsweek, Harpers Bazaar, Out, Globe and Mail, and penned three books: Tommy’s Tale, his New York Times Best Selling memoir Not My Father’s Son and You Gotta Get Bigger Dreams: My Life in Stories and Pictures which was published by Rizzoli in 2016. He has collected more than 30 awards for his humanitarianism and social activism and received both the Great Scot and Icon of Scotland awards from his homeland. He was also made an OBE (Officer of the British Empire) for his contributions to the arts and LBGT equality by the Queen, whose portrait was taken down when his was unveiled at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in 2014!
With Alan Cumming, you'll never feel sappy so don't miss out!
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