Craig Winberry brings George Michael back to Boston

When actor-singer-songwriter Craig Winberry would do cabaret shows, he always put some George Michael in the set.

Sometimes the Michael song came with some cheek — after returning from Carnival in Brazil one year, Winberry closed a show in a speedo and headdress singing Wham’s “I’m Your Man.” Sometimes it came with tender sincerity, such as the big ballad “One More Try.”

So when Winberry saw a casting call for something called “The Life and Music of George Michael,” he felt he’d been preparing for the audition for years.

“The summer of 2021, I’m having a horrible day, I turn on my phone and I see this casting notice,” Winberry told the Boston Herald. “I was like, ‘That’s me.’”

“It was like I’d already been working toward this project,” he added.

“The Life and Music of George Michael”