Get Out! GAY Magazine – Issue 381 – August 22, 2018

You’ve been touring for a while
with “See Jane Sing.” How will
your debut at Café Carlyle vary
from that?
Well, it’s just Kate and myself, and
we’re doing all new songs. We have
a four-piece band as opposed to a
five-piece band. We’re calling this
show “Two Lost Souls.” “See Jane
Sing” was kind of me in the
driver’s seat, and after a
certain amount of time
I realized how stupid
it was to not have
Kate front and
center with me.
So in fact “See
Jane Sing” is
really “See
Jane and
Kate Sing.”
So it’s just
the two of
us doing
our thing.
We don’t
have Tim
Davis
doing this
one. It’s
going to
be me and
Kate in “Two
Lost Souls.”
Can you give
me a sneak
preview?
It’s just one of those
things. We won’t
even really know what
the show is until we actually
do it. We’re rehearsing at this
point. We’re doing “Two Lost Souls”
from “Damn Yankees.” We’re going
to do “The One Note Samba,” which
is going to be hilarious. We’re doing
“Bei Mir Bistu Shein,” the Yiddish
version by the Barry sisters. We are
going to do the “Hallelujah Chorus.”
We’re all over the map.
So it’s singing and comedy, and
everyone is going to love it?
Let’s hope so. We’re going to love it.
I hope everybody else will enjoy the
experience.
How did you and Kate come to
team up?
I’ve known Kate for
decades. We met in
Chicago when we
were both doing
what we call
non-equity
theater.
We were
doing the
comedy
club stuff,
and she
and I
found
our way
to doing
duets
a lot
of the
time.
When
we came
down here
to LA we
continued
with this
sketch
comedy. We
got together with
a lot of people, and
we came from “The
Real Live Brady Bunch”—
that was our show that we first
did together back in Chicago. We
did sketch comedy here in LA, and
then four years would pass, and we
would do a duet for a charity event.
Then at 54 Below I was asked to do
four nights there.