Tom Wopat

Overwhelmingly referred to as “The Smart Cousin” Luke Duke, within the ’70s Television show The Dukes of Hazard, Tom Wopat in addition has worked very difficult at establishing himself within the musical theater community. Created on a little dairy plantation in Lodi, WI, Wopat started singing and dance in college musicals when he was 12 yrs . old. Upon graduating senior high school, he enrolled in the University or college of Wisconsin in Madison to review music, and well balanced his time taken between productions of Western Side Tale, Jesus Christ, Superstar, and South Pacific, while carrying out in an area rock-band. Upon shifting to NEW YORK in 1977, he immersed himself in Broadway and off-Broadway productions, resulting in larger and better possibilities including an audition in California for any Georgia-based action-adventure Television show. The display went for seven months allowing Wopat the required time both on video camera and behind it (the acting professional also directed five displays within the later on seasons). Following the Duke kids closed up store, he divide his time taken between fronting the country-rock action the North Hollywood All-Stars and executing in musicals. In 1987 he made a decision to live a dual lifestyle, spending half the entire year in LA working in Television and on stage, and fifty percent the entire year in Nashville composing and releasing nation albums. The past due ’90s discovered Wopat functioning on the critically acclaimed Television show Cybil, showing up on-stage within a touring creation of Annie MAKE YOUR Weapon, and in 2000 he released the criteria record The Still of the night time on Angel Information.