In 1999, he also wrote and played the lead (Logan John) in the alt-country/Americana musical "Future City Homosexual Tells All" "about a small town boy trying to do the big town thing." at The Theater Building in Chicago. Though the musical received favorable reviews, "an unforgettable character and some of the best and most memorable songs you are likely to hear for years to come," stated Chicago's Outlines, and "His raspy voice evoking Joe Cocker and his down-home songs recalling John Prine, Kamys offers a true-blue slice of Americana," declared Chicago Reader theater critic Lawrence Bommer, low attendance and high production costs would close the show in six weeks. However, his exploration of the Alt-Country/Americana sound and some of the songs from "Future City Homosexual Tells All", would inform and inspire his second solo effort "Guns" (2001) and the single "There Just Wont Be a Christmas This Year" (2001) recorded by vocalist and actress Catherine Smitko.