Alan Cumming Can Sing Too!

"I Bought a Blue Car Today," the debut solo album from stage star Alan Cumming, will be released on Tuesday, September 22nd on Yellow Sound Label. The Tony-winning actor, who will return to Broadway in 2010 in "SPIDER-MAN: Turn Off the Dark," performed a concert version of the material on the album at London’s Vaudeville Theatre in early September.

Led by musical director Lance Horne, Cumming explores a variety of musical styles on the album, with material range from songs by artists like Cyndi Lauper ("Shine"), Dory Previn (“Dance and Dance and Smile and Smile”), John Bucchino (“Unexpressed”) and Jimmy Webb (“All I Know”) to theatrical gems (“Mein Herr” from Cabaret, the show that earned Cumming a Best Actor Tony; “Where I Want to Be” from Chess; “What More Can I Say?” from Falsettos; “Wig in a Box/Wicked Little Town” from Hedwig and the Angry Inch) and more.

“The album title comes from the naturalization test I took to become a citizen of the U S of A,” says Cumming. “In the test, there is a bit where the man says a sentence and you have to write it down to prove your prowess in English. My sentence was ‘I bought a blue car today,’ which initially I thought was really sweet and childlike, but on closer examination I realized that it’s all about consumerism and gas guzzling, which rather brilliantly encapsulates America’s financial and energy crises in one fell swoop. [The album is] made up of songs and stories about my ten years living in the states culminating in my becoming a citizen.”

Cumming will play the Green Goblin, the villain of "SPIDER-MAN: Turn Off the Dark" when it starts performances at the Hilton Theatre in early 2010. In addition to Cabaret, he has appeared on Broadway in Threepenny Opera and Design for Living and off-Broadway in The Seagull. His many London stage credits include Bent and the title role in Hamlet.