Tom Hulce was born in White Water, Wisconsin, and grew up in Michigan. He's a perfectionist who insists on, and gets, the most from every performer." Playing Mozart was my greatest challenge, Hulce said, "and working with Milos Forman was unusually demanding. In addition, Hulce was called upon to duplicate one of Mozart's legendary piano stunts-playing the piano suspended upside down, lying on his back, with crossed hands. When I first met Milos Forman and producer Saul Zaentz, they asked if I played piano and I told them my parents always warned me I'd be sorry."īesides four hours daily of piano lessons, learning scales as well as Mozart Concerti, Hulce studied the rudiments of conducting with Sir Neville Marriner since the script of Amadeus required him to conduct extracts from four famous Mozart operas and three other works.
I never played the piano before, he says, "though I played the violin and sang as a child. When Hulce received the call from director Milos Forman that he had the part, Hulce immediately plunged into piano lessons to equip himself for the numerous scenes in Amadeus showing Mozart at the keyboard.
Tom Hulce was picked over intense competition for the title role in Amadeus, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the man-child musical genius of the 18th Century fated for an early and poverty-ridden death and musical immortality.
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