This week Miami hosts concerts from two of the LGBT community’s favorite iconic British male performers with a very fond look at the past. We should perhaps set the record totally ‘straight’ though by saying that 80’s Brit pop idol Rick Astley currently enjoying a major resurgence with his new hot album, doesn’t actually bat on our team. Likewise the Tony Award winning star of Broadway’s Cabaret plus countless movies Alan Cumming actually identifies as bisexual, although he is also a major LGBT activist.
Both singers are appearing at the Arsht Center, and Astley kicks off this Tuesday February 7th singing songs from his latest album ’50’ which marks his actual age, and is a slight dig at Adele who loves to age her albums too. After being out of the public eye for nearly 25 years, Astley’s stunning new album entered the British Charts at No 1 where it remained for several weeks and introduced his work to a whole new group of fans. We, the old ones, always took him at his word, and were ‘Never Going To Give Him Up’.
Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs is the name of the hugely acclaimed cabaret show that Cumming premiered in 2015 at New York’s legendary Cafe Carlyle. After touring the show extensively throughout the US, Canada, Australia, and the UK, he returned with the show to NYC and made his sold out, solo debut at Carnegie Hall, and released a live album of the same name. Now on Thursday 9th February, it’s finally the turn of Miami to see this remarkably talented performer.
Labels: 2017, Brit singers, cabaret, concerts, culture
