American - Actor | September 9, 1951 -
I think now I'm being taken a little more seriously. That's pure conjecture on my part.
Tom Wopat
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I've made it clear to my agents that I want more interesting stuff.
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I'm facing upstage, with my back to the audience, and the spotlight comes up on my back as I start singing.
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I sang opera, I sang show tunes. I got into a rock band for a while. I've sung a lot of different things.
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As I've gone along, I felt like I was discovering an aspect of my voice that I didn't know was there: an ability to interpret a song in a way that makes it more accessible.
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There's a guy at the record company who's 30, and he says, I would not listen to these songs except in this context. Somehow the recording process, the arrangements, make it more accessible.
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When you're doing the traditional musicals, singing songs that are 40 and 50 years old, you realize there's a reason why those musicals are hits. These are amazing songs!
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With Schubert, a lot of the melodies are very simple, but he's in this groove. He's in touch with his heart.
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I have no experience performing that music live in front of an audience. So that remains to be seen. I'm very excited to see what that's going to be like.
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I did I Love My Wife on Broadway in 1978, and then went into television land. Now things are starting to come together in the way I thought they might when I was a kid.
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There were a couple of years when I wanted to be a football player, but I really always wanted to be a singer.
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The country experience was more of a departure. When you consider my education and my upbringing, you can see that was more of country rock outgrowth of my popular music aspirations.
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