Alan Cumming - Welcome to Club Cumming (Live) lyrics

[Spoken] Thank you very much Thank you Hello, good evening Welcome to the Cafe Carlyle I am Alan Cumming I'm here to sing sing you some sappy songs And joining me in that endeavour are the three beautiful people on stage with me tonight Please give a big hand to, on drums, all the way from Liverpool, England Skouse is in the house! Mr. Chris Jago is here On the cello, the only self-defining woman onstage tonight,Eleanor Norton, ladies and gentlemen And on the pianoforte, musical director/arranger/composer/co-composer/backing vocalist, Lance Hahn is here! So, um, it's been awhile since I've able to sing, uh, in this way, and by that I mean, in a place where food is being served Um, but you know, I like it, I like it I love the smell of shrimp wafting up as I'm emoting It's, uh, you know, helps open up the tear ducts But, uh, the reason I haven't been able to sing in cabaret in this way, is because I was singing, uh, actually for the last year or so until early this year in the show “Cabaret,” not the form cabaret Oh, I wasn't fishing, but of course, I was Yes, so I went back to do, to play the Master of Ceremonies in “Cabaret” after a gap of, uh, 15 years It was really nice to go back to it, and, uh, you know, older and wiser And I realised that, uh, there's some things I needed to make happen in my life in order to be able to do 8 shows a week on Broadway, and to have a fulfilled and nice time Basically, I just brought the party to me I had to have a party every night, so I had to have it in my dressing room So my dressing room at Studio 54 after “Cabaret” became known as Club Cumming, and we basically used to have parties there every night The cast would come up, my friends from the show, people would drop by, and we'd just have an absolutely lovely time We'd listen to music, and we'd have drinks So kind of tonight, it's kind of like Club Cumming, ladies and gentlemen And, um, at Club Cumming, we had a sign made which said, guess what, “Club Cumming.” And so, oh the thing is tonight's almost like Club Cumming, but the one thing I didn't do during Club Cumming at Studio 54 was sing That is my gift to you tonight So Club Cumming, as now and then in Studio 54, has a lot of rules or certain rituals we had Everyone would know it was time to go home when I would play Elaine Stritch singing “The Ladies Who Lunch.” That meant daddy's tired. daddy's….It's over. Get out So, um, a lot of the songs I'm going to sing for you tonight are actually songs I grew to love, uh, during that time at Club Cumming ‘Cause I, you know, a lot of people brought music that I hadn't heard before There's a lot of artists and a lot of songs that I really never thought I would actually like, let alone sing for you live at the Cafe Carlyle Like, for example, this one . .