Ben Vereen's Birth Card: The Queen of Clubs

In the record

Benjamin Augustus Vereen (né Middleton; October 10, 1946) is an American actor, dancer, and singer. The birth-card coordinate for October 10 is the Queen of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1973 Best Actor in a Musical (Pippin) win.

Tony Award record (leading acting)

• 1973 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical — Pippin as The Leading Player

The Queen of Clubs coordinate

Ben Vereen's birthday maps to the Queen of Clubs (The Nurturing Leader). 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 Ben Vereen. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You teach from what you actually know, without making people earn the right to hear it.

Live Queen of Clubs meaning page

Ben Vereen in the public record

He gained prominence for his performances in the original Broadway productions of the musicals Jesus Christ Superstar, for which he received a Tony Award nomination, and Pippin, for which he won the 1973 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. Vereen was born October 10, 1946, in Laurinburg, North Carolina. Shortly after his birth, he and his family relocated to the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York City. He was raised by James Vereen, a paint-factory worker, and Pauline Vereen, who worked as a maid and theatre wardrobe mistress. He was raised Pentecostal. He discovered he was adopted when he applied for a passport at age 25. According to the Vereens, his birth mother had abandoned him, although he later heard from relatives that his birth mother looked for him for years. During his pre-teen years, he exhibited an innate talent for drama and dance and often performed in local variety shows.

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

Where the record meets the 3 of Hearts

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 Ben Vereen, and not a forecast of a Tony.

You let love have range without using newness as an exit from the one that is already here. You feel in color and express it—your inner life is rich, varied, and creative. You explore connection the way an artist explores a medium, drawn to emotional range and new expression. Love, for you, is a creative act.

He is featured prominently in the "Rich Man's Frug" dance number and the song "Rhythm of Life", where he appears as one of three backup dancers for Sammy Davis Jr. After developing a rapport with Davis, Vereen was cast as his understudy in the upcoming production of Golden Boy, which toured England and ended the run at the Palladium Theatre in London's West End.

Paired on shared wording: life, rich.

Also on the record

1. At the age of 14, Vereen enrolled at the High School of Performing Arts, where he studied under world-renowned choreographers Martha Graham, George Balanchine, and Jerome Robbins.
2. Upon his graduation, he struggled to find suitable stage work and was often forced to take odd jobs to supplement his income.
3. When Vereen was 18 years old, he made his New York stage bow off-off Broadway in The Prodigal Son at the Greenwich Mews Theater directed by Stella Holt.
4. By the following year, he was in Las Vegas, performing in Bob Fosse's production of Sweet Charity, a show with which he toured in 1967–68.

Other leading Tony winners with this card

• Barnard Hughes — 1978 Best Actor in a Play (Da)
• George Hearn — 1984 Best Actor in a Musical (La Cage aux Folles)
• Helen Hayes — 1947 Best Actress in a Play (Happy Birthday); 1958 Best Actress in a Play (Time Remembered)
• Jackie Gleason — 1960 Best Actor in a Musical (Take Me Along)
• James Naughton — 1990 Best Actor in a Musical (City of Angels); 1997 Best Actor in a Musical (Chicago)
• Marcia Gay Harden — 2009 Best Actress in a Play (God of Carnage)
• Margaret Leighton — 1957 Best Actress in a Play (Separate Tables); 1962 Best Actress in a Play (The Night of the Iguana)
• Robert Alda — 1951 Best Actor in a Musical (Guys and Dolls)
• Victoria Clark — 2005 Best Actress in a Musical (The Light in the Piazza); 2023 Best Actress in a Musical (Kimberly Akimbo)

FAQ

What is Ben Vereen's birth card?

The Queen of Clubs. October 10 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 Ben Vereen's dates come from?

Birth date 1946-10-10 is the day-precision date on Ben Vereen'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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