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Post by janetcatbird on Aug 5, 2006 19:17:05 GMT -5
I just got hold of "The Fantasticks", original cast recording. Oh my gosh, new sniffles and squeals over Jerry Orbach as El Gallo. Even though "It Depends on What You Pay" is hard to listen to at first--the rape song, the girl is not hurt but it's all about staging a theatrical abduction so the buy can play a hero--it's amazing to hear him sing the character. And of course, "Try to Remember", as well as "Round and Round" between El Gallo and Luisa.
Just had to share that.
--Catbird
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Post by madger on Aug 6, 2006 15:47:50 GMT -5
I have this CD, my parents actually went to see the Fantastiks when Jerry was still in it, my Mom said it was great, we had the record when I was growing up, so I've been a JO fan for a few years. I finally got to see the play about 10 years ago before it left the Sullivan Street Theater, I was actually in the same room Jerry had been 30 years before.
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Post by Techguy on Jan 19, 2007 23:59:37 GMT -5
From Gothamist, this brief article about Jerry Orbach Organ donor which also includes a link to the NY Daily News story about Orbach's donation:January 9, 2007 Jerry Orbach, Eye Donor
This morning's subway commute made us do a double take. Because we saw Jerry Orbach looking at us and the other riders from an ad! The Eye Bank for Sight Restoration has launched an advertising campaign to encourage people to become eye donors. As it happens, today, the Daily News has a story about the Orbach donation:
The Broadway and TV star donated his eyes when he died in December 2004, giving sight to two women who needed new corneas.
"I cannot remember a day that went by where he didn't say, 'I want to donate my eyes,' " Orbach's widow, Elaine, recalled yesterday.
A prostate-cancer patient at the time of his death at age 69, the Bronx-born Orbach did not donate any other organs, she said. "He never wore glasses. He could read in the dark, practically - just this wonderful vision he was so proud of."
Radio and TV ads use Obrach's son Chris as the voiceover who says, "For two New Yorkers, his greatest role was that of an eye donor." The Daily News's headline is "Years after his death, Orbach still a class act." Ain't that the truth. Elaine Orbach also told the News, "He believed in the body continuing, if it's possible. What greater gift than if you must pass this world: that if something is still working, to give [it] to somebody who doesn't have a chance? I just believe he's very happy about that. This was his wish."
The Eye Bank for Sight Restoration has information about eye donations. And we miss Jerry Orbach very much.
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Post by janetcatbird on Mar 19, 2007 18:23:56 GMT -5
In my Musical Theatre class today we talked about The Fantasticks, so I finally got to read the script this weekend. And we listened to "Try to Remember", original Orbach of course. I did get a little misty.
On the class website we heard a brief bit of the title song from Promises, Promises, which I recognized as him. Mama realized that she had seen him in that show in New York when her high school went--she didn't pay attention to the actor's names, and doesn't like musicals enough to hold on to the memories--but she remembered a tall guy with dark hair, and did the math to count years and realized it was him. And we are now both annoyed that she can't remember.
Sniffle, Lenny!
--Catbird
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Post by DNA on Mar 23, 2007 5:19:08 GMT -5
NYTimes.comJerry Orbach Is a Step Closer to a Corner Bearing His Name By PATRICK McGEEHANThere may be a sunnier side of the street for Jerry Orbach and his widow, Elaine. Last night, Mrs. Orbach’s campaign to have a Midtown intersection named for her late husband received a positive response from members of Community Board 4. The unanimous approval, from a committee of the board, came less than two weeks after Community Board 5 failed to endorse the idea. Fortunately for Mrs. Orbach, the intersection she had her eye on — 53rd Street and Eighth Avenue — straddles the two districts. Community Board 5 failed to allow the renaming for the east side of Eighth Avenue, while Community Board 4 will vote on whether to put up a street sign on the west side that would ceremonially name it Jerry Orbach Corner. The full board is expected to vote on it April 4. The final decision will rest with the City Council, which has shown more fondness for the renaming of city streets than some community boards have. About half of Community Board 5 objected to the Orbach proposal on principle, leaving the vote split and no position taken. Mrs. Orbach and Mr. Orbach’s sons, Tony and Chris, attended last night’s meeting armed with petitions signed by hundreds of Mr. Orbach’s fans, former colleagues and neighbors, including the cast of “Jersey Boys” and 35 police officers from the Midtown North Precinct. “I felt like they really were on our side this time,” Mrs. Orbach said of the committee after the vote. “These were my people.” Community Board 4 also generally opposes requests for street renamings, according to Robert J. Benfatto Jr., the district manager. But the community may have a soft spot for Mr. Orbach, the Broadway song-and-dance man who went on to play Lennie Briscoe, a New York City detective, on “Law & Order.” Mrs. Orbach said she and her husband lived for a quarter-century in an apartment just west of the corner until he died in late 2004 at age 69. He was a fixture in the neighborhood, often seen dining in local restaurants and riding city buses. Earlier this month, Mrs. Orbach enlisted her husband’s son Tony and one of his former co-stars, Sam Waterston, in a pitch to Community Board 5. They managed to persuade three of the five members of a committee to recommend the idea to the full board. But in the end, the proposal fell one vote short of passage by the board, which had turned down similar requests for Guy Lombardo and St. Francis of Assisi
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Post by DonnaJo on Mar 23, 2007 7:10:30 GMT -5
I signed this petition on line last week. There was a link at the NBC Message Board.
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