Jerry Orbach

You know he looks like in that pic: Drake. Well rather drake looks like him.

OP, why the extensive bio? We know who he is.

For anyone old enough to remember, how did his Billy Flynn compare to James Naughton?

He would stay with shows for years, rarely call out and never walk through a performance. Now look what we've got working on Broadway.

wonderful actor

He WAS Jerry Orbach!

A true professional

R4 He was an old school New Yorker. If you were hired to work, you were working that paycheck.

I always think about Lauren Bacall (another New Yorker of the same generation) and her High Point Coffee commercials. You knew she took it seriously.

I get Yankee Yves Montand vibes from him. Was so sad when he died.

[quote] OP, why the extensive bio?

R2, OP is the “he is”/let’s discuss” troll. He often begins his threads about actors and actresses with a bio and often starts the bio with “born in” or “born into”, e.g., “Born into a Jewish family in Brooklyn”. He also frequently posts about classical music pieces and composers.

I'll take OP over the racism and misogyny all day, every day.

He put Baby in a corner!!

What if, R11, I told you that they are the same person?

R2, these bios have the vibe of the extinguished vintage beefcake posts from a couple months ago. The bios read to me as if they are ChatGPT generated.

He’s dead?? I swear I just saw him on Law & Order.

[quote] I swear I just saw him on Law & Order.

That was Mariska Hargitay.

[quote] He put Baby in a corner!!

NOBODY puts Baby in a corner!

Well, r13, let's encourage the good behavior, then.

R8. Bacall was another pro. Love her or hate her she showed up and gave 100%. Not 75% like some people (I'm looking at you Sara Porklab.

r10 How is that a troll though. Maybe thats just his interests.

R19, it’s the DL definition of a troll not the common internet definition. He also calls himself a troll.

Trolls can be benevolent or malevolent. T

He would have gone into the record books if he'd just sung the original Try to Remember from The Fantasticks.

They can also be cave trolls.

OP here, not a racist or misogynist. I'm not Boris, I'm not the Condoleezza Rice troll.

I do post on classical music, movies, books, politics, and character actors, but this is DL. I try to facilitate fun discussion and debates. I mean no harm to anyone.

any love for this 1963 LP ?

I saw him in "42nd Street".

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r27 Not spelled the same.

R10, I always thought he was 25 years old and just learned about so-in-so and not sophisticated enough to know that it wasn’t news to 99.9% of the population. “Marlon Brando, most say he was the greatest actor of all time. He was born in…”

He could afford to seem laid back, although at heart he was anything but.

After all, his grandfather founded Seers, Orbach and Co. Family loaded, gay family.

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Allentown!

R29, OP is relatively young and certainly younger than the likely DL average age. Someone once wrote of him at R12 of the below-linked thread:

[quote] OP has the taste of a 18 year old discovering "culture" for the first time.

So you’re not alone in your thought. He has a unique, stilted and almost naive writing style.

R8, thank you for posting that. Having a dreadful fucking Christmas, and hearing that cunt Betty with her AHs (kuh-lah! luv-ah!) Really gave me a lift. Seriously. Thank you and Merry Christmas. 🎁🎁🎄

[quote] He would stay with shows for years, rarely call out and never walk through a performance. Now look what we've got working on Broadway.

Please say nice things about Audra.

Decades ago, I was waiting to board a flight from Los Angeles to New York. Jerry Orbach was in first class, as was Marla Gibbs. Unfortunately, I was not.

R35, were they seated next to each other?

I never cared for his penchant for “the wet look”. It appeared arrested in the 1950s. And he would have looked so much younger with a dry, over the ear wave with bangs.

R35 If it was the 1980’s, Marla Gibbs and Jerry Orbach may have been going to/from “Night of 100 Stars II” which they were both in. I just love the IMDB advanced search.

Thank you, R38.

It was obvious Mary was trying to secretly destroy the plans of the brooding Jew visiting his new main squeeze Sandra Clarke, with plans to buy the building. Mary was having none of it.

R3, Orbach's Billy Flynn was 180 degrees different from Naughton's - yes, i am old enough tohave seen the original production. Here's the first thing to know about the musical Chicago - it was billed as a "musical vaudeville' and that's what the audience got; a series of vaudeville numbers during song and dance.

All the characters were low-rent including Flynn. Orbach was a street-wise, hustler. An ambulance-chasing Irish lawyer. No tux for Jerry; loud, brassy, cheesy moustache... here's his version of "All I Care About is Love."

Gwen and Chita refused to perform at the Tony's that year because they were pissed Donna McKechnie was placed in the lead actress category with them. Imagine how they felt when Donna won.

The epitome of BDF.

Razzle Dazzle 'Em

I can't believe he's been dead for 20 years, I thought he died more recently than that.

Be Our Guest with Angela Lansbury and David Ogden Stiers

[quote]just learned about so-in-so

R29, the phrase is "so-AND-so."

I can't believe I had to point this out to you.

You didn't have to r47. This isn't English class.

Love you R48

If you don't have enough self-respect to want to use proper English, shame on you.

r50 it's a fucking online forum, not a formal letter. Autocorrect errors and voice-to-text are common here. Most people aren't going to proofread three times and make sure their punctuation is perfect for bullshit like this. Welcome to the 21st Century!

If eldergays had their way, Datalounge would be written in cursive.

R52 What is wrong with that?

I've had such a crush on him.

Could have sworn he died only 6-7 years ago, though.

Between Orbach and Steven Hill, Law & Order is the most comforting show on television.

Jerry Orbach had a relaxing presence on screen, even when he discovered the most hedious of corpses.

Here's what Santa is bringing R52.

[quote] Born and raised in New York City, he quit college to pursue acting, where he became and recognizable leading man on the stage, with hits like The Fantasticks, Guys and Dolls, and Annie Get Your Gun, but he really found fame when he created the role of Billy Flynn, the slick and rapacious lawyer in the musical Chicago.

That's not really true.

The original run of "Promises, Promises" (which ran over 1200 performances) was a bigger hit than the original run of "Chicago" (which did not run 1000 performances), and Chuck Baxter is a bigger role than Billy Flynn.

Orbach won the Tony for "Promises, Promises," but was only nominated for "Chicago."

The family was fighting over who got his eyeballs. His body parts were donated.

R58, very true - thanks for pointing out that the Tony was for Promises, Promises, and it was just a nomination for Chicago. I'm surprised there weren't more nominations over the years.

R52 with a lavender felt pen!