Life Was No Cabaret: In his new memoir, Alan Cumming recalls a harsh boyhood

摘要

When alan cumming arrives for brunch at a cafe not far from his apartment in Manhattan's East Village, he's wearing a blue baseball cap with a big white yes on the front. It's been almost two weeks since Scotland voted no to separating from the United Kingdom, but Cumming, a Scot who campaigned heavily for the yes side from New York, hasn't quite gotten over the loss. He heard the results in his dressing room after a performance of Cabaret, a revival of the 1966 musical that brought him a Tony for his electrifying performance as the androgynous Emcee when it returned to Broadway in 1998. "I just cried," he says. "I felt like it was the difference between choosing imagination and hope and positivity or being cowed and doffing your cap and letting the Establishment tell you what to do."