VIDEO: Broadway Legend John Cullum Considers Autobiographical One-Man Show

John Cullum's distinguished Tennessee drawl and powerful singing voice has been a steady fixture on New York stages since making his Off-Broadway debut sixty years ago in a revival of St. Joan.

A veteran of 29 Broadway and 22 Off-Broadway productions, not to mention appearances with City Center Encores! and New York City Opera, the two-time Tony winner certainly must have some fascinating tales to tell, after making his Broadway debut understudying Richard Burton in CAMELOT, starring with Madeline Kahn in ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY and playing drag for Harvey Fierstein in CASA VALENTINA.

And in the latest installment of Artists In Residence Broadcasting, the weekly video series where he chats with his wife for the past 57 of those years, dancer/choreographer/novelist Emily Frankel, Cullum suggests that he'd like to tell those stories in a one-man autobiographical show.

"Instead of doing my memoirs I could just do a show where I talk about the things that I've done in my career."

The subject was brought up when Frankel asked what Cullum might like to do in the small studio theatre of their two-story loft, but after workshopping it there, what better place to perform it for his fans than at the John Cullum Theatre on West 54th Street; the former Chernuchin Theatre at The American Theatre for Actors that was renamed in his honor this past October.