Alfred Drake's Birth Card: The 2 of Diamonds

In the record

Alfred Drake (October 7, 1914 – July 25, 1992) was an American actor and singer. The birth-card coordinate for October 7 is the 2 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1954 Best Actor in a Musical (Kismet) win.

Tony Award record (leading acting)

• 1954 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical — Kismet as Hajj

The 2 of Diamonds coordinate

Alfred Drake's birthday maps to the 2 of Diamonds (The Financial Partner). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Tony Award and not a verdict on Alfred Drake. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You name the exchange out loud and keep it fair for both sides.

Live 2 of Diamonds meaning page

Alfred Drake in the public record

Born as Alfred Capurro in New York City, the son of parents emigrated from Recco, Genoa, Drake began his Broadway career while still a student at Brooklyn College. He is best known for his leading roles in the original Broadway productions of Oklahoma! and Kiss Me, Kate and for playing Marshall Blackstone in the original production of Babes in Arms, (in which he sang the title song) and Hajj in Kismet, for which he received the Tony Award. He was also a prolific Shakespearean, notably starring as Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing opposite Katharine Hepburn. Drake was mostly a stage and television actor; he starred in only one film, Tars and Spars (1946), but played several roles on television, including providing the voice for the Great Ak in the Rankin-Bass stop-motion animated adaptation of the L. Frank Baum novel The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus. He appeared in a minor film role as president of the commodities exchange in the classic comedy Trading Places (1983), with Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd. His first musical television appearance was as Captain Dick Warrington in the January 15, 1955 live telecast of the operetta Naughty Marietta. This followed by his portrayal of Marco Polo in Neil Simon's The Adventures of Marco Polo on NBC Television's musical anthology series Max Liebman Presents in 1956.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Alfred Drake (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the 8 of Clubs

A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Alfred Drake, and not a forecast of a Tony.

You run a knowledge system other people can follow, and you stand behind the call. Your mind calculates power, influence, and success. You're ambitious and know how to leverage ideas into position. You think like a chess player.

Drake was president of The Players from 1970 to 1978, a social club in New York City for people of the theatre founded by actor Edwin Booth in 1889.

Paired on shared wording: people, players.

Also on the record

1. Drake headlined the musical stage version of Jean-Paul Sartre's "Kean" on Broadway in 1961 with a score by Forrest and Wright, although it was a major flop.
2. His 1964 stage performance as Claudius in the Richard Burton Hamlet was filmed live on the stage of the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, using a "quickie" process called Electronovision, and shown in movie theatres in a very limited engagement.
3. It was also recorded on LP.
4. His final appearance in a Broadway musical was in 1973–74 as Honoré Lachaille in Lerner and Loewe's Gigi.

Other leading Tony winners with this card

• Matthew Broderick — 1995 Best Actor in a Musical (How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying)
• Neil Patrick Harris — 2014 Best Actor in a Musical (Hedwig and the Angry Inch)
• Santino Fontana — 2019 Best Actor in a Musical (Tootsie)
• Sidney Blackmer — 1950 Best Actor in a Play (Come Back, Little Sheba)
• Viola Davis — 2010 Best Actress in a Play (Fences)
• Vivien Leigh — 1963 Best Actress in a Musical (Tovarich)

FAQ

What is Alfred Drake's birth card?

The 2 of Diamonds. October 7 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict a Tony Award?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.

Where do Alfred Drake's dates come from?

Birth date 1914-10-07 is the day-precision date on Alfred Drake's Wikipedia person page, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only Wikipedia dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Tony Award wins come from the Wikipedia leading-acting lists, which record the Tony Awards. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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