Alan Cumming's SAPPY SONGS Album Set for Release This Week

BroadwayWorld already announced Alan Cumming's star-studded SAPPY SONGS concert at Carnegie Hall, and we're now excited to report that Yellow Sound Label will release ALAN CUMMING SINGS SAPPY SONGS -- the new solo recording from the eclectic and electric Tony Award-winning performer -- on Friday, February 5, ahead of the event.

The album, captured live in concert at the Café Carlyle, is currently available for pre-order on iTunes.

ALAN CUMMING SINGS SAPPY SONGS is produced by Michael Croiter with Daniel Nardicio and Lance Horne serving as associate producers. You can watch four (soon to be five) behind-the-scenes videos on the background of the recording, featuring exclusive live performance footage, on Yellow Sound Label's website.

As previously announced, Cumming will celebrate the album with a gala concert at Carnegie Hall on Monday, February 8 at 8:00 PM with guest stars Kristin Chenoweth, Darren Criss and Ricki Lake, in addition to a special performance by the New York City Gay Men's Chorus.

ALAN CUMMING SINGS SAPPY SONGS includes his singular interpretations of pop hits (Billy Joel's "Goodnight Saigon," Miley Cyrus's "The Climb," Rufus Wainwright's "Dinner at Eight"), musical theater songs ("The Ladies Who Lunch" from Company, "You, You, You" from Kander & Ebb's The Visit, "If Love Were All" by Noël Coward) and numbers that Cumming has collected from around the world ("Mother Glasgow" from Scotland, "La Complainte de la Butte" from France, "How Do Humans Live" from Germany).

Cumming's longtime musical director Lance Horne provides orchestrations and arrangements, and is featured on piano and backup vocals. The album also features Eleanor Norton on cello, Chris Jago on drums and Michael Croiter on guitar and percussion.

In addition to the New York album launch at Carnegie Hall, ALAN CUMMING SINGS SAPPY SONGS will also be performed in Toronto, CA (February 6), Bethesda, MD (February 14), Napes, FL (February 28), Detroit, MI (March 19), Minneapolis, MN (March 26), Princeton, NJ (May 13), Port Washington, NY (May 14), Dallas, TX (June 24), Austin, TX (June 25) and San Antonio, TX (June 26). Details are at AlanCumming.com.

"ALAN CUMMING SINGS SAPPY SONGS" TRACK LIST:

1) "Why"

2) "Somewhere Only We Know"

3) Welcome to Club Cumming

4) "The Climb"

5) Tommy Darling

6) "Goodnight Saigon"

7) A Musical Condom Commercial

8) "Ecstasy"

9) A Sojourn 'Round Europe Pt. 1

10) "Mother Glasgow"

11) A Sojourn 'Round Europe Pt. 2

12) "Complainte De La Butte"

13) A Sojourn 'Round Europe Pt. 3

14) "How Do Humans Live"

15) The Tonys

16) "You, You, You"

17) Alex Cumming

18) "Dinner at Eight"

19) Raven

20) "Complicated"

21) "Someone Like The Edge Of Firework"

22) They're All the Same

23) "No One Is Alive Not While I'm Around"

24) Liza

25) "And So It Goes"

26) "If Love Were All"

27) "The Ladies Who Lunch"

Alan Cumming is an actor and activist beyond eclectic and according to The New York Times "a bawdy countercultural sprite"; Time Magazine named him one of the most fun people in show business; He plays political maverick Eli Gold on CBS's "The Good Wife," for which he received Golden Globe, Emmy, SAG and Satellite Award nominations and earlier this year finished his Tony Award-winning role of the Emcee in the Broadway musical Cabaret. Alan's diverse career has found him performing at venues around the globe including the Sydney Opera House; making back to back films with Stanley Kubrick and The 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).

Alan is also Host of PBS's "Masterpiece Mystery" and appears opposite Lisa Kudrow in Showtime's "Web Therapy." Alan has written for The New York Times, Newsweek, Harper's Bazaar, Out, has a bi-monthly column for Globe and Mail, and two books; Tommy's Tale and his New York Times bestselling memoir, Not My Father's Son. A tireless champion for LGBT civil rights and HIV/AIDS, Alan serves on the Board of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and works closely with amfAR, The Trevor Project and the Ali Forney Center to name but a few. In 2009, Alan was made an OBE in the Queen's Honors List and by his homeland, Scotland, for which he was a vocal supporter of the YES for independence campaign, he has been awarded the Great Scot and Icon of Scotland awards, as well as recently having his portrait unveiled at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery as seen on the finale of Portrait Artist of the Year.

Yellow Sound Label is a Grammy Award-nominated, cutting-edge record company that produces both established performers and up-and-coming artists. The boutique label takes a hands-on approach in nurturing and producing
passionate, focused performers and composers who create quality, noteworthy recordings. The label has featured the best of Broadway (Matilda, The Visit, Big Fish), Off Broadway (Heathers - The Musical, The Burnt Part Boys, Murder Ballad, The Shaggs), theater luminaries (Chita Rivera, Alan Cumming, Telly Leung, Christopher Jackson), and rising songwriter/composers (Marcy & Zina, Kerrigan & Lowdermilk, Lance Horne, Michael Patrick Walker). www.YellowSoundLabel.com.