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and I wanted to

audition for the choir,

this world, you know,

world-renowned choir,

the conservatory,

and so I met these men,

you know,

athletes and stuff...

you know, I came early,

And they said... I said,

''I'm going on...''

And, you know,

I'm from Gary, Indiana,

and, you know, the thing...

And they said... yeah,

I said, ''I'm going to audition

for the choir in the morning,''

and they laughed at me,

They said, ''You can't get in

the choir, you're from, y'know,''

- I said, no...

- Wait a minute,

You're from...

- I'm from Gary, Indiana,

- Right,

I'm from this inner-city

place...

- Right,

- and so you can't get...

You can't get in...

But why did they say

you can't?

Was it from Gary, Indiana?

Maybe because I had

a football jacket on

and rose-tinted glasses

and I'm from the urban thing,

- That's what they said,

- All right,

Even though I've been, y'know,

in this music thing

- my whole life,

- Right,

My whole life

has been music,

So aren't you enraged by that?

No, I just told them I'm going

in the morning

and I'm gonna

get in the choir,

- And what happened?

- I was in the choir!

Oh!

What is...

Where have you been?

- You look so cute in that box,

- I'm so hot in here,

Come on, we're supposed to

be doing an interview,

I brought my

air-conditioned box,

'cause I didn't know

how long you'd be,

How handsome,

Bill in a box,

You could market it,

How are you?

Just add water,

which we've done,

Oh, boy, sweetheart,

Oh, I am so hot

just waiting for you,

What does that mean?

That's what

they all say,

Kate Mulgrew portrayed

Captain Kathryn Janeway

on ''Star Trek:
Voyager,''

You will meet Kate

in the setting

where she is perhaps

most at home, the stage,

The first female captain of

a ''Star Trek'' series,

She brought all of her

training and discipline to bear

and made Janeway an

impressive leader,

I think when I was young,

acting was, for me,

the great escape,

AIthough I took it

very seriously,

You wanted to go

to college, obviously,

Not really, I didn't,

Well, but you had a desire...

- Bill, Bill,

- Yes?

- Trust me,

- Trust me,

I wanted my father to pay

my way to New York,

The only way I could get here

was to get in through

New York University,

I wanted to study

with Stella Adler,

I have my sister to verify this,

College to me was

absolutely unimportant,

absolutely unimportant,

and as it turns out,

I have had much less college

than I even thought,

I thought I dropped out at

the end of my junior year,

in fact, I've only had one year,

Okay, why couldn't you say to

your father,

''I wanna go to Stella Adler,

pay for that for me, please?''

My father...

Absolutely... tough,

tough old Irishman,

Tough, what, but his daughter

wants to learn,

- Why can't you got to your...

- To be an actress,

- Yeah,

- And you know what my father

said to me when I said I wanna

be an actress?

- What, what did he say?

- And I proved it to him,

He said, ''You're gonna break

your neck out of the gate

and I'll be goddamned

if I'm gonna subsidize that,''

How did you feel about that?

I said,

''Then I'll do it myself,''

He said, ''Guess what?

- You will,''

- And guess what?

You didn't,

'cause you went to college,

You said, ''Then give me the

money for university,''

- Yes,

- So you fooled him,

- I did,

- You lied,

- I did,

- Why did you do that?

'Cause I wanted to be

an actress,

That much,

And I didn't mind sticking it

to him a little bit, either,

He was tough,

Tough, tough,

But he didn't know

that I dropped out,

I didn't tell him I dropped out

of school,

So why did you drop out?

I dropped out because I got

two leading roles,

Where?

I got the lead in a soap opera

called ''Ryan's Hope,''

I played Mary Ryan,

and I got the lead in ''Our Town''

at the American Shakespeare

festival...

- Wow, at the same time?

- Same time,

- How old were you?

- 1 8, 1 9,

So they recognized your talent

right from the very beginning,

Yeah, they did, yes,

Poker face,

Shut up,

- Scott Bakula,

- Bill Shatner,

I have admired you

for so long,

- You are my hero,

- Are you kidding me?

No, no, no, no, I'm not

kidding, because...

Vice versa,

Well, I appreciate that,

but the truth of the matter is,

you're such a hell of an actor,

but you're a singer,

- I am a singer, that is true,

- Yeah,

Where... Do you think of yourself

as a singer first?

Yeah, that's where I started,

- I know, musical theater,

- That's right,

- Did you study?

- Of course, I still study,

- Voice?

- Every week,

You take voice lessons

every week?

Yes, every week,

Give me a...

give me a thing?

- What do you...

- A voice exercise,

A voice... an exercise?

He, he, he, he, hey.

Jeez, that's wild,

I can't sing,

but I can ride a horse,

- Let's hear a little,

- Let's go...

- Let's hear a little singing,

- No,

- I sang yesterday,

- I can teach you today,

- How long do we have?

- Really?

We've got...

we've got 'til 1:30

and then you

have to go,

Come on over here,

I'm... I'm, uh...

Here's the... I'll go wherever

Calvin takes me,

but when you say,

''Come on over here...''

- No, no, no, press your legs,

- Yes?

- Press your legs against him...

- Yes,

- Against her very slightly...

- Yes,

- and she'll go forward,

- Yes,

And then, if you

wanna go to your left,

you just point it

to the left,

Yes,

- A little leg pressure,

- Yes,

All right,

That's good, guys,

Iet's dismount...

Let's stop here,

Okay,

That was...

that was fabulous,

Now here's what I want to do...

Scott Bakula played

Captain Jonathan Archer

on ''Star Trek:
Enterprise,''

and was arguably

the first captain,

as his series was set before

the original series,

even though it was

the last to be produced,

You got all that?

Scott has been a fixture on

television for decades

and like Avery,

is an accomplished singer,

No... my mother's very musical,

my dad's very musicaI

and I have become...

What does that mean,

''very musical''?

Well, my dad

was a concert pianist,

so I had pianos in my house

my whole life

and that's a huge deal,

And did they say, sing?

They didn't say sing,

but my mom was a singer,

So there was always

music around,

and my parents, 'cause

my dad went to Princeton,

he used to go to New York

when he was at school,

so he developed

this love of New York shows

and so when I was growing up

in the '60s,

my parents would

disappear for a few days,

go to New York,

see a Broadway show and come

back home with ''Cabaret,''

an album from ''Cabaret,''

or ''How to Succeed in Business

Without Really...''

You know, or any

of those kind of shows,

and so I was getting this kind

of distant love affair,

and then you'd

put the album on

and you'd be listening to ''Mame''

or Angela Lansbury

or somebody,

and you'd be all... that's...

You know, so I grew up

having it around me,

Did they

encourage you to sing?

They did, yeah,

I started singing from

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