Old College Quad, Edinburgh
This lightweight cabaret-style set sells its subject short, even if Cumming can belt out a power ballad convincingly
The promise is that Alan Cumming will talk about ageing through a medley of stories and songs. He comes on stage looking spry and super fit in a sleeveless waistcoat and says he is told he does not look his 56 and a half years (he doesn’t).
A four-piece band plays as he croons to Charles Strouse’s But Alive and it sets the mood. The band is excellent and the crooning is good but there are several more songs and we wait for the story part of the evening to begin in earnest as Cumming tells us about his relief at being able to fly to Australia again and his cabaret bar in New York’s East Village, Club Cumming.
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