ALAN CUMMING

Think of all the intensity Tony Award-winning actor Alan Cumming brought to the stage as the subversive emcee in Cabaret or in his riveting tour-de-force performance in Macbeth. Now imagine him doing that to Miley Cyrus. Cumming brings his delicious and unexpectedly emotional cabaret show Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs to Sanders Theatre Oct. 6 as part of Celebrity Series of Boston. Cumming has his Boston bona fides, taping his MASTERPIECE Mystery! segments at WGBH, collecting an honorary degree from Boston Conservatory at Berklee and checking out everything from drama to drag (at the American Repertory Theater and Bay Village mainstay Jacques respectively) when he has the chance. 8pm, subscriber tickets from $75, 45 Quincy St., Cambridge, celebrityseries.org