Cumming Alludes To CABARET Revival & Talks MACBETH

Tony Award-winning stage and screen crossover star Alan Cumming discusses his new Broadway role in the radically re-imagined revival of William Shakespeare's MACBETH in a new interview but also hints at potentially singing and dancing his "t*ts off" onstage once again sometime soon - presumedly as the Emcee of CABARET alongside the rumored Sally Bowles of Anne Hathaway, of course.

UPDATE: The New York Times confirms (here) a CABARET revival is being planned by Roundabout for 2014 starring Cumming once again. Additionally, Hathaway's reps deny her involvement in the production.

Cumming tells The Aesthete, "I'm doing another show on Broadway after THE GOOD WIFE season ends. It starts rehearsals the day after my 49th birthday, so I'll be entering my 50th year dancing my t*ts off and being a sexpot."

When prompted to name the show,"I'm not allowed to say. It's something I did before and we're doing it again."

Of course, Cumming won the 1998 Tony Award for his work in the Sam Mendes/Rob Marshall-directed Roundabout revival of CABARET.

When blatantly asked if his next big upcoming project is a revival of CABARET, Cumming coyly responds, "I couldn't possibly comment," without denying it.

Elsewhere in the interview, Cumming addresses many aspects of his current stage project, MACBETH, making a shrewd scholarly assertion in stating at one point, "What I love about it is that there's one pivotal moment. You know, like, when you decide you're gonna steal a flower display at the end of a gala, or you're gonna f*ck someone? When you make a split-second decision with another person and, in that instant, you do it. It's the same thing in the play. They make a choice in the moment and it changes their lives forever. And once they've made it, there's no going back. Thankfully, when you just f*ck someone it's not so bad."

Check out the original interview here.

So, are you ready to see the one-man MACBETH return to the role of the Emcee in CABARET later this year?

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