At 91, John Cullum is ready to try something new
The actor John Cullum in the musical The Scottsboro Boys, in New York, Oct. 7, 2020. The TV star planned to debut a cabaret show in 2019. Illness hit, then the pandemic. But he hasnt been stopped. Sara Krulwich/The New York Times.
by Laura Collins-Hughes
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- On a sunshiny August afternoon in 2019, actor John Cullum stood singing and storytelling beside an upright piano in a rehearsal space off Columbus Circle, inside a building that no longer exists. Hopscotching through reminiscences of his six-decade stage career, tweaking the script as he went along, he was readying for a cabaret show in September that would never come to be.