Jerry Orbach's Birth Card: The 2 of Clubs

In the record

Jerome Bernard Orbach (October 20, 1935 – December 28, 2004) was an American actor and singer described as "one of the last bona fide leading men of the Broadway musical". The birth-card coordinate for October 20 is the 2 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1969 Best Actor in a Musical (Promises, Promises) win.

Tony Award record (leading acting)

• 1969 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical — Promises, Promises as Chuck Baxter

The 2 of Clubs coordinate

Jerry Orbach's birthday maps to the 2 of Clubs (The Collaborative Builder). 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 Jerry Orbach. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You think with someone else and still leave the conversation with a position of your own.

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Jerry Orbach in the public record

Orbach's career began on the New York stage, both on and off-Broadway. He created roles such as El Gallo in the original off-Broadway run of The Fantasticks (1960), in which he was the first performer to sing that show's standard "Try to Remember". Orbach won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for playing Chuck Baxter in Promises, Promises (1968–1972). He was also Tony-nominated for portraying Sky Masterson in Guys and Dolls (1965) and Billy Flynn in the original Chicago (1976). Orbach gained worldwide fame for starring as NYPD Detective Lennie Briscoe on the NBC legal drama Law & Order from 1992 to 2004. For that role, he earned the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series as well as a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. He reprised the role across several series, including Homicide: Life on the Street (1996–1999), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999–2000), Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001), and Law & Order: Trial by Jury (2005). On film, Orbach took supporting roles as a detective in the crime drama Prince of the City (1981), a coach in the comedy film Brewster's Millions (1985), an overly protective father in the romance film Dirty Dancing (1987), and a mobster in the drama Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989).

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

Where the record meets the cards

No sentence in the sourced record shows a clear echo of the published language for 2♣, K♥, A♠, J♠, 10♣, 7♣, K♣, J♦, 4♥, 4♦, 2♠, 8♥, 6♣, 6♠, Q♥, 8♣, 6♦, 4♠, 10♥, 10♦, 8♠, A♥, A♦, Q♦. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast a Tony.

Also on the record

1. He voiced Lumière in the Walt Disney animated musical film Beauty and the Beast (1991).

Other leading Tony winners with this card

• Helen Mirren — 2015 Best Actress in a Play (The Audience)
• Idina Menzel — 2004 Best Actress in a Musical (Wicked)
• Jason Robards — 1959 Best Actor in a Play ([[The Disenchanted#Play adaptation|The Disenchanted]])
• LaChanze — 2006 Best Actress in a Musical (The Color Purple)
• Paul Muni — 1956 Best Actor in a Play (Inherit the Wind)
• Virginia Capers — 1974 Best Actress in a Musical (Raisin)

FAQ

What is Jerry Orbach's birth card?

The 2 of Clubs. October 20 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 Jerry Orbach's dates come from?

Birth date 1935-10-20 is the day-precision date on Jerry Orbach'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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