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In 2007, the Jerry Orbach Theatre was named for him in the Snapple Theater Center at 50th Street and Broadway in New York City. At the time, the theater was mounting a revival of The Fantasticks. On September 18, 2007, a portion of New York City's 53rd Street near Eighth Avenue was renamed "Jerry Orbach Way" in his honor. [28]
The Fantasticks is a 1960 musical with music by Harvey Schmidt and book and lyrics by Tom Jones. It tells an allegorical story, loosely based on the 1894 play The Romancers ( Les Romanesques ) by Edmond Rostand , concerning two neighboring fathers who trick their children, Luisa and Matt, into falling in love by pretending to feud.
Jerry Orbach in the Broadway production of Chicago in 1975. Jerry Orbach was an American actor of the stage and screen. Orbach is most known for his long-running leading role as Det. Lenny Briscoe in Law & Order from 1992 to 2004. He also made appearances on Murder, She Wrote and The Golden Girls.
Tom Jones, the lyricist, director and writer of “The Fantasticks,” the longest-running musical in history, has died. ... from the opening cast in 1960 that included Jerry Orbach and Rita ...
Tom Jones -- the lyricist, director and writer of the longest-running musical of all time, The Fantasticks -- has died. He was 95. Jones died Friday at his home in Sharon, Connecticut. His son ...
"Try to Remember" was sung by Jerry Orbach in the original off-Broadway production of The Fantasticks. In 1965, Ed Ames, Roger Williams and The Brothers Four made the Billboard Hot 100 with versions of the song. "Try to Remember" was the first Australian success for the trio New World. Their version peaked at no. 11 in late 1968.
One of the early animated films to use the voices of more recognized actors (including Robby Benson, Angela Lansbury, Jerry Orbach, David Ogden Stiers, and Jo Anne Worley), it also won a pair of ...
Long-running play Perfect Crime (starring Russell) transferred to the Theater Center upon the facility's opening, and a revival of The Fantasticks was mounted that summer. [4] In 2007, the space in which The Fantasticks was performed was named in honor of actor Jerry Orbach, who starred as El Gallo in that show's original production in 1960. [5]