Why don’t musical comedy acts go on tour like traditional musicians?
We’d love to tour; it just hasn’t happened. We don’t feel we have enough heat under the group to tour, plus we’ve been involved in other projects that keep us here or in L.A. Cracked Out is a focus, but it’s definitely not my only focus. At the end of the day, I’m an actor and a writer and I want to do a lot of things. When you restaged your one-man musical opus “1,000 Cats” this past fall at Rififi, I felt like I was witnessing history. It’s a mind-poppingly excessive piece in which you utilize the full spectrum of Broadway pomp to act out the lives of literally 1,000 different cats. What went into it? “1,000 Cats” is like eight years old. Originally it was part of a character show and was only 15 minutes long. Then I decided to make it a half-hour show and enlisted the help of two total geniuses. Noah Warner did the music; he’s one of the most amazing musical minds I know. And I got my friend Michael Lluberes to direct it. He helped me find the arc of the piece and all the different
