Kristin Chenoweth to Join Former Tonys Co-Host Alan Cumming for 'SAPPY SONGS' at Carnegie Hall

Kristin Chenoweth, the Tony Award winning star of stage and screen, will join Alan Cumming as a special guest for his headlining debut at Carnegie Hall on Monday, February 8 at 8:00 PM, BroadwayWorld has confirmed.

The pair recently served as co-hosts for the 2015 Tony Awards. Producer Daniel Nardicio is presenting the eclectic and electric Tony Award-winning performer in Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs with Friends, also featuring guest stars Darren Criss and Ricki Lake and a special performance by the New York City Gay Men's Chorus. Due to an injury, the previously announced Chita Rivera will no longer be on the bill.

Backed by Cumming's longtime musical director Lance Horne on piano, Eleanor Norton on cello, Chris Jago on drums and Michael Croiter on guitar and percussion, Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs premiered in Spring 2015 for a limited run at the iconic supper club Café Carlyle, garnering such critical praise that Nardicio approached Cumming about bringing the show to Carnegie for a one-night-only performance.

This evening also marks the release of Cumming's newest CD Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs, from Yellow Sound Label, recorded live at the Café Carlyle. It 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).

When this program was introduced last year, Sappy Songs was hailed as "an emotional firestorm, delivered passionately with tremendous theatrical authority" by The New York Times. Alan was lauded for his "wit, whimsy and powerful voice" by People.com, called "wonderfully dreamy" by the New York Post with songs that "ripple with emotion," according to the New York Daily News. Time Out New York praised Cumming for "putting a completely fresh interpretive spin on familiar songs."

The new album - produced by Michael Croiter, with Daniel Nardicio serving as associate producer - is currently available for pre-order at www.AlanCummingSingsSappySongs.com.

In addition to the New York album launch at Carnegie Hall, Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs will also be performed in Tampa, FL (January 24), Toronto, CA (February 6), Bethesda, MD (February 14), Napes, FL (February 28), Detroit, MI (March 19), Minneapolis, MN (March 26) and Port Washington, NY (May 14). Details are at AlanCumming.com.

Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs with Friends will take place at Carnegie Hall (Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage) on Monday, February 8 at 8:00 PM. The venue is located at 881 Seventh Avenue at 57th Street in New York, NY. Tickets range from $45 to $135. VIP seats are available which include attendance to Alan's personal after-party "Club Cumming," modeled after his nightly post-show performance dressing room celebration during the recent Broadway production of Cabaret.