In the Summer of 2003, Walker was already on his way to "the dark side." He had been cast in the avant-garde production of "" in which he played the role of Judy Garland, (during her desperate concert years.) It was an extremely physical, "cardio marathon", 2-person, one act play, in which Walker was bedecked with an androgynous pantsuit , along with an oppressive amount of black mascara and eyeliner, that would inevitably sweat, and then drip off his face, and onto the Duplex Cabaret Theater stage, throughout the run of the play. 

On the day of the last performance, Walker got a call from Jean Ann Ryan Productions, who offered him a job as 'lead singer' on a Norwegian Cruise Lines' vessel. Taking this job was the beginning of a psychological breakdown so severe that six months later, Walker would wake up in 1 of the 101 beds at Johns Hopkins Hospital's Psychiatric Inpatient Services. His first autobiographical monologue: From Ship to Shape , is a recounting of how both life-changing experiences, marked the beginning and the end of a 'Mid-Twenties Crisis'-turned-'Rite Of Passage.'