TOM WOPAT Broadway And TV Leading Man At The Colony Hotel Palm Beach

The Colony Hotel, Palm Beach Celebrates Cabaret with Broadway & TV Leading Man Tom Wopat February 28 - March 3

The Colony Hotel - which The Palm Beach Post has hailed as "probably the best place for cabaret on the planet" - continues its world class season with another Royal Room favorite:

TOP WOPAT

February 28 - March 3

Returning to the Royal Room for the first time since 2007, Tom Wopat first came to public attention in the late-1970s as the freewheeling Luke Duke on the TV series The Dukes of Hazzard. In 1977, he made his Broadway debut in Cy Coleman's I Love My Wife. Wopat went on to perform in the Tony Award–winning City of Angels and Guys and Dolls. He received a Tony nomination for creating the role of Frank Butler in the Broadway revival of Annie Get Your Gun, opposite Bernadette Peters. In 2008, Wopat returned to Broadway as Tom Hurley in A Catered Affair with Faith Prince and Harvey Fierstein. 2011 saw him again on Broadway starring as Frank Abagnale Sr. in the musical adaptation of Catch Me If You Can. His TV credits include a leading role in Cybill, a recurring role on Home Improvement, the critically acclaimed NBC movie Just My Imagination, and most recently HBO's Taking Chance alongside Kevin Bacon. ??Wopat has also become a successful recording artist with many albums to his credit, including A Little Bit Closer, Don't Look Back, Learning to Love and The Still of the Night. In 2005, he released Dissertation on the State of Bliss-featuring the music of Harold Arlen-and his most recent offering, Consider it Swung.

Reviews of Tom Wopat:

+ Stephen Holden, The New York Times: "In a fundamental way, (Tom) Wopat is a keeper of the flame of the Sinatra saloon tradition. Like Sinatra he is not afraid to be tender and to bare his emotional vulnerability. At the same time, however, he is not a Sinatra imitator…he has a country singer's relaxation."

+ Rex Reed, The New York Observer: "Swarthy but cool, like a preppie rodeo cowboy with a tuxedo and a Rolex, Tom Wopat is so charismatic and versatile he can lock in a lyric and lasso an audience at the same time… With an appealing song list that ranges from Cy Coleman and the Beatles to Gershwin and Bobbie Gentry, he demonstrates with ease why he has become, with age and experience and a lot of good listening, what I call a category-defying performer capable of wearing many hats and tackling numerous trends, from country to jazz. He's come a long way from The Dukes of Hazzard."

+ Cabaret Scenes: "How comfortable is Tom Wopat on a cabaret stage? Comfortable enough to pull out a guitar and start entertaining the audience fifteen minutes before his show was scheduled to start. Comfortable enough (to make) a cabaret feel almost like a living room… Tom Wopat is a jazz vocalist, and a darned good one."

Cost to Attend Dinner & Show with Tom Wopat:

$115 for dinner and show (Tues-Thurs) & $125 (Fri-Sat); $55 show only (Tues-Thurs) & $65 (Fri-Sat)

For all cabaret performances in The Colony's plush Royal Room, doors open at 6 p.m. for cocktails with dinner seating from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. A memorable three-course prix fixe dinner is offered, as well as an a la carte menu of small plates and delicious entrees and specialty desserts from Polo Steaks and Seafood. There is no service during the cabaret performance that starts at 8:30 p.m.

To make reservations, call the hotel box-office at 561.659.8100. The Colony is located at 155 Hammon Avenue in Palm Beach, just one block south of Worth Avenue, one block west of the Atlantic Ocean.

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