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Actually I have been singing since I was a kid.
Gregory Harrison / Actor
Kids
Has Beens
Singing
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Brian and I got cast out of that show into Trapper John, M. D.
Gregory Harrison / Actor
Brian
Cast
John
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Honestly, when I got to Hollywood I was trying to sell my songs.
Gregory Harrison / Actor
Hollywood
Honestly
Song
Trying
Sell
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Then when I got to Hollywood, the first musical I did was Festival in 1977.
Gregory Harrison / Actor
Festivals
Hollywood
Musical
Festival
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What I ended up doing was becoming an actor who didn't mind doing other people's words.
Gregory Harrison / Actor
Actors
Mind
People
Ended
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I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs.
Gregory Harrison / Actor
Age
Guitar
Play
Song
Stuff
Written
Young
Young Age
Songs
Converted
Learned
Poems
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I didn't feel compromised as an actor, and allowed other people's fingerprints all over that aspect.
Gregory Harrison / Actor
Aspect
Fingerprints
Allowed
Compromised
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I have kept a part of Catalina Productions going, through which I develop a few projects just for me.
Gregory Harrison / Actor
Productions
Projects
Develop
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It was the first time that I was on Broadway, and I got to run as fast as I could to keep up. And I loved it!
Gregory Harrison / Actor
Broadway
First Time
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I have to be very careful about how often I drag my family to places. They need some stability in their lives.
Gregory Harrison / Actor
Careful
Drag
My Family
Needs
Stability
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But we were doing plays and movies which I had nothing to do with other than being a producer, and I don't have that kind of interest or time any more.
Gregory Harrison / Actor
Kind
Play
Producers
Producer
Plays
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So I got interested in singing and I have always used my voice. Not professionally as much, but around the living room, the campfire, that kind of thing.
Gregory Harrison / Actor
Campfire
Living Room
Rooms
Singing
Voice
Always Voice Singing
Professionally
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I have four kids; three girls and a boy. The oldest girl is 13, and has her own social life now, so there's a bit of begrudging cooperation there. It's tough.
Gregory Harrison / Actor
Girl
Kids
Boys
Cooperation
Social Life
Oldest
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But I can't wait to watch the Tonys this Sunday. I'm really glad Broadway is doing so well this year, especially with its straight plays. It's been a wonderful year.
Gregory Harrison / Actor
Broadway
Glad
Sunday
Wait
Plays
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Well, I want to do The Music Man. I think it's an amazing opportunity, but I think that they are probably looking at major movie stars right now, and I don't blame them.
Gregory Harrison / Actor
Blame
Stars
Movie Stars
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Suddenly Star Wars came out while we were on hiatus, and we looked like the old Buck Rogers series, where they had cigarette smoke blowing out the back of the rocket ship.
Gregory Harrison / Actor
War
Cigarette
Cigarette Smoke
Hiatus
Series
Smoke
Stars
Blowing
Buck
Wars
Rocket
Star Wars
Suddenly
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I got a series with the WB next year. We start shooting in July. It's going to be called Safe Harbor, and it's an hour show. It's a Spelling show and will follow 7th Heaven.
Gregory Harrison / Actor
Heaven
July
Next Year
Safe
Series
Shooting
Spelling
Years
Harbor
Hour
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7th Heaven is quite a hit for them now, and they are hoping to appeal to a very similar audience with our show; skewed slightly older I guess, since it's a 9:00 to 10:00 show.
Gregory Harrison / Actor
Heaven
Appeal
Hoping
Similar
Skewed
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I have to own something before I can say it, and I have to own it before I can sing it as well, emotionally. I only enjoy acting and singing if I am believing what I am doing.
Gregory Harrison / Actor
Believe
Sight
Singing
Believing
Emotionally
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I directed an episode of Touched by an Angel a couple of months ago, and I will be doing more of that. I just like to keep a bit of variety going; it keeps things interesting.
Gregory Harrison / Actor
Angel
Couple
Interesting
Touched
Variety
Directed
Episode
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But I always held my music up and protected it from compromise. So I just do it for my friends. I've written hundreds of songs, and I'm sure I have a few albums worth of songs.
Gregory Harrison / Actor
Albums
Compromise
Just Do It
Protected
Song
Held
Hundreds
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I had done a lot of plays, particularly at my own theater in LA, and it was the first time in my theatrical life where I didn't feel that my role was also to keep everybody else working hard.
Gregory Harrison / Actor
Work
First Time
Play
Roles
Theater
Theatrical
Life Time Feel
Life Time Done
Everybody Else
Particularly
La
Plays
Working Hard
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I have a big family and had to move them all from the coast of Oregon to New York three times for the workshops and for the actual production itself, which had about a four month development rehearsal schedule.
Gregory Harrison / Actor
Oregon
Rehearsal
Workshops
Actual
Month
Big Family
Schedule
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And that's the mistake that was made with Steel Pier. Roger was caught between a rock and hard place. It would have cost a couple of million dollars more to take it to Boston or someplace first. So we opened about a month too early.
Gregory Harrison / Actor
Boston
Caught
Cost
Dollars
Million Dollars
Mistake
Roger
Steel
Month
Hard Place
Million
Opened
Someplace
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I love to sing and I do think that my strength as a singer is... I think I have a voice that is certainly sufficient under most any circumstances... but I think my strength is that I really am an actor and I really do have to own what I am saying.
Gregory Harrison / Actor
Actors
Circumstances
Sufficient
Thinking
Voice
Any Circumstances
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