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Jim Caruso’s Cast Party has done it again. Following the massive success of the Hollywood debut, the second LA show (Wednesday, May 26) at the Magic Castle has sold-out. Over on the East Coast, where it all began, the fun continues at Birdland. Start the night with the Broadway veteran Tom Wopat, then let loose at the Cast Party! Perhaps best known for his starring role as Luke Duke in the long-running popular TV Series "The Dukes of Hazzard," critically acclaimed and Tony-nominated singer and actor Tom Wopat has maintained a thriving career in show biz ever since,
appearing everywhere from Broadway and cabaret stages, to the screen, to his own swinging album recordings. Wopat celebrated the 100th birthday of composer Harold Arlen with the February 2005 release of Dissertation on the State of Bliss, a collection of Arlen favorites and rarities, followed by the release of a collection of music entitled Consider it Swung, which features such great songs as “But Not For Me,” “Deacon Blues,” “That’s Life,” “2 Grey Rooms" and many others. Meanwhile, Wopat appeared as the lead in Chicago and returned to Broadway in March for his first dramatic role starring alongside Alan Alda, Jeffrey Tambor and Liev Schreiber in David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross. Wopat has received Tony nominations for several of his stage roles, including Frank Butler opposite Bernadette Peters in Annie Get Your Gun. Tom brings his cabaret act back to the Birdland stage for the first time in five years. In a New York Times review of his cabaret show Arci’s Place, Stephen Holden said, “…he applies his virile baritone to popular standards with a quiet, open-hearted deliberation. On the cabaret stage, Mr. Wopat conveys the same laid-back, utterly unaffected naturalness that makes his album so appealing… [Wopat] clearly knows whereof he sings.”
Tom Wopat
Venue: Birdland
315 West 44th Street (between 8th & 9th), NYC
Tel: (212)581-3080
Date: Monday, May 31
Time: @ 7pm
Music Charge: $25 side seating, $35 center seating,
Reservations: Call (212) 581-3080 or click here.
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