Will and Vicki. The virgin Walden/Abelson voyage. If youâre gonna break the almost 3 yrs to the day pandemic Zoom streak, and do a first Live in person from the new digs, how better than with handsome, charming, fabulous, Emmy, SAG, and GLAAD Award Winning, Eric McCormack? Couldnât be done. If youâre gonna look into a set of eyeballs, share rarefied air, lotsa laughs, and some snacks, wellâŚit doesnât get better than this. Thank you, Loren Gold for putting up with my incessant begging and pleading and making this happen.Â
Exceeding all expectations, Eric was easy, expressive, talented (he did accents, impressions, and sang a teeny bit), and crazy fun. Stories, stories, and more stories, one better than the last. When we wrapped and Ericâs fab assistant, Michelle Loparo, said some of said stories were new to her, well, score! From his early days in Toronto, school plays with David Furnish, no, really! Day jobs at Baskin Robbins, and a gas station, his fatherâs secret revealed, childhood heroes and how one blew Ericâs adult mind, five years doing Shakespeare in rep, breaking into TV, Lonesome Dove, meeting his unlikely perfect partner, manifesting his highest dreamââauditioning for James Burrows, landing the part that would change his life, Will and Grace fun, bringing childhood imagings to life⌠Freddy Mercury, Barry Manilow, Elton John, starring on Broadway in The Music Man, turning serious⌠Travelers (Netflix- 3 seasons to binge), the upcoming, Departure (Peacock), Slasher (AMC), The Other Black Girl (Hulu) the acclaimed Drinkwater (Canadian Prime, soon here), plus another Broadway turn, The Cottage, directed by his great friend, Game Changers alum, Jason Alexander, coming this summer, and, as if that tâwerenât enough, two podcasts soon to drop, one, Eating Out, with his pal, Steven Weber, a Women Who Write alum, and Just Jack and Will with his great friend Sean Hayes. Iâm exhausted typing it, let alone this indefatigable man living it all, no doubt, brilliantly.Â