Comments on: Jerry Orbach dies

By: nadezhda

nadezhda — Fri, 31 Dec 2004 07:36:15 +0000

Jerry Orbach wasn't just first and foremost a stage actor, as David Salmanson notes. Orbach was the creator of some of the most memorable characters in Broadway musicals over a span of more than 40 years. The lights on Broadway were dimmed in his memory. The Glittering Eye offers an appreciation and overview of his remarkable career on the stage.

By: Nat Whilk

Nat Whilk — Thu, 30 Dec 2004 15:36:02 +0000

I figure I’ve spent about 500 hours watching Lenny give the bad guys what for on L&O. Was it wrong of me to spend so much time—and wrong of NBC to tempt me into spending so much time—admiring Orbach’s talents rather than me contemplating the 3 million people who died during those 500 hours as the new all-death-all-the-time NBC gave them each their half-second of fame?

By: David Salmanson

David Salmanson — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 19:56:44 +0000

Orbach was first and foremost a stage actor. He was the original young man in the original production of The Fantastiks and played the Narrator in the final production. His pairing with Angela Lansburry (sp?) in Beauty and the Beast was an amazing bit of genius.

By: Richard Bellamy

Richard Bellamy — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 19:22:23 +0000

You know, up until 5 minutes ago, I though Jerry Orbach was also the guy who played “Cigarette Smoking Man” on the X-Files. Apparently not. He was, however, Jennifer Grey’s father in “Dirty Dancing,” which I did not know, but is even better than being Cigarette Smoking Man.