Hank Azaria, best known for voicing Moe Szyslak, Chief Wiggum, and Apu Nahasapeemapetilon on The Simpsons, will perform at Montgomery College’s Robert E. Parilla Performing Arts Center in Rockville on Friday, October 24.
Azaria will take the stage with the EZ Street Band to perform songs by Bruce Springsteen. According to the band’s website, “About nine months ago “I had the crazy idea that I would like to sing some Springsteen songs to surprise people at my 60th birthday party.” So Azaria called his son’s former jazz piano teacher, Adam Kromelow, who played in a Genesis tribute band, and asked him if he could put together a band. “At first I wasn’t sure I could capture Bruce’s singing voice– talking like him is no problem, I mean, that’s my day job!”
Azaria got obsessed with singing as exactly like Bruce as he could. He practiced every day for about 6 months, trying songs, abandoning them, circling back, and each time feeling like he was getting closer and closer to actually sounding a lot like his boyhood idol. About 4 months into this obsession, after driving his wife and son nearly insane with his constant “scream singing” around the house, “something ‘unlocked’ in my voice– I kind of couldn’t believe how Bruce-like it sounded!”
Tickets go on sale Friday, April 4, at 10 a.m.