Tom ‘Luke Duke’ Wopat performing at Cabaret Jazz

It’s hardly what you’d call a disorder, but Tom Wopat’s been doing the multiple-personality thing for quite some time.

More than a quarter century after the General Lee zoomed off into the sunset, Wopat’s still good ol’ boy Luke Duke, the dark-haired half of TV’s rascally “Dukes of Hazzard.”

If you’ve caught “Django Unchained” at the multiplex recently, you’ve seen Wopat as U.S. Marshal Gill Tatum, who’s duped by the title character (Jamie Foxx) and his bounty-hunting mentor (Christoph Waltz ).

Broadway fans, meanwhile, have followed Wopat from “City of Angels” to “Chicago” to “42nd Street,” to cite three of his numerous musical roles.

Others include Tony-nominated turns in “Annie Get Your Gun” and “A Catered Affair” – plus a place in the “Sondheim on Sondheim” ensemble alongside Barbara Cook, a previous headliner at The Smith Center’s Cabaret Jazz.

Tonight at Cabaret Jazz, however, Wopat steps into the role he was born to play: himself.

With “Love Swings,” Wopat, 61, shows off his rich baritone and easygoing style in a show he says is “a little more saloon” than cabaret.

“It’s not a mystery, what I do,” Wopat says in a telephone interview from his New York home base. The secret? “Have great musicians and sing great songs.”

In “Love Swings,” the songs range from Hoagy Carmichael’s “I Get Along Without You Very Well” to Joni Mitchell’s “Two Grey Rooms,” which Wopat describes as “almost like a tone poem – introspective.” (As for the Carmichael classic, with lyrics based on a poem by Jane Brown Thompson, “it’s written like a haiku – I think there are only a hundred words in the whole song, but boy, is it powerful.”)

If he’s singing a song, it means there’s “something that resonates” with him, Wopat says.

Throughout, audiences can expect to hear “things that’ll make you think, things that swing, things that make you happy, things that make you sad,” he notes.

“There has to be a point of view” for Wopat to perform a song, he adds. “I do songs that have something to say to you.”

And even after he’s finished singing, Wopat still will have something to say to you – in the lobby, where he’ll be autographing CDs (including his latest, “Consider It Swung”) and photos of his multiple movie and TV personalities.

“I like to meet people – I like to go out there and hang and talk,” Wopat says, inviting audiences to stick around and say hello after the show. “Maybe there’ll even be a ‘Dukes of Hazzard’ photo involved.”

Contact reporter Carol Cling at ccling@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0272.