John Rubinstein's Birth Card: The 10 of Clubs

In the record

John Rubinstein (born December 8, 1946) is an American actor, composer and director. The birth-card coordinate for December 8 is the 10 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1980 Best Actor in a Play (Children of a Lesser God) win.

Tony Award record (leading acting)

• 1980 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play — Children of a Lesser God as James Leeds

The 10 of Clubs coordinate

John Rubinstein's birthday maps to the 10 of Clubs (The Master 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 John Rubinstein. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You carry a finished body of knowledge and keep teaching from it.

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John Rubinstein in the public record

Rubinstein is the son of Polish parents. His mother, Aniela (née Młynarska), a dancer and writer, was a Roman Catholic native of Warsaw, the daughter of conductor Emil Młynarski. His father was Polish-Jewish concert pianist Arthur Rubinstein. He attended El Rodeo Public School in Beverly Hills (K–2), Cours La Cascade in Paris, France (1954), and St. Bernard's School (3–8) and Collegiate School (New York City) (9–12) in New York City. He studied theater and music at the University of California, Los Angeles (1964–1967), and later composition at the Juilliard School in New York. Rubinstein made his Broadway acting debut in 1972 and received a Theatre World Award for creating the title role in the musical Pippin, directed by Bob Fosse. In 1980 he won the Tony, Drama Desk, Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle, and Drama-Logue Awards for his portrayal of James Leeds in Mark Medoff's Children of a Lesser God, directed by Gordon Davidson.

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

Where the record meets the 10 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 John Rubinstein, and not a forecast of a Tony.

Intellectual mastery and deep expertise

His mother, Aniela (née Młynarska), a dancer and writer, was a Roman Catholic native of Warsaw, the daughter of conductor Emil Młynarski.

Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: writer.

Also on the record

1. Other Broadway appearances were in Neil Simon's Fools, directed by Mike Nichols, and Herman Wouk's The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, which earned him a Drama Desk nomination; he replaced William Hurt as Eddie in David Rabe's Hurlyburly, replaced David Dukes in David Henry Hwang's M.
2. Butterfly, and starred in Getting Away with Murder, by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth, directed by Jack O'Brien, and Ragtime, by Terrence McNally, Stephen Flaherty, and Lynn Ahrens.
3. In 2014, he joined the Broadway cast of the hit revival of Pippin, directed by Diane Paulus, this time playing Pippin's father, Charlemagne; and subsequently repeated that role on the national tour throughout the United States and Japan in 2014–15.
4. In 2016, it was announced that Rubinstein would join fellow Tony-winner Christian Borle in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as Grandpa Joe, directed by Jack O'Brien.

Other leading Tony winners with this card

• Bernadette Peters — 1986 Best Actress in a Musical (Song and Dance); 1999 Best Actress in a Musical (Annie Get Your Gun)
• Carole Shelley — 1979 Best Actress in a Play (The Elephant Man)
• Claude Rains — 1951 Best Actor in a Play (Darkness at Noon)
• David Wayne — 1954 Best Actor in a Play (The Teahouse of the August Moon)
• Hugh Jackman — 2004 Best Actor in a Musical (The Boy from Oz)
• Jonathan Groff — 2024 Best Actor in a Musical (Merrily We Roll Along)
• Martin Short — 1999 Best Actor in a Musical (Little Me)
• Mercedes Ruehl — 1991 Best Actress in a Play (Lost in Yonkers)
• Norbert Leo Butz — 2005 Best Actor in a Musical (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels); 2011 Best Actor in a Musical (Catch Me If You Can)
• Richard Burton — 1961 Best Actor in a Musical (Camelot)
• Tammy Grimes — 1970 Best Actress in a Play (Private Lives)
• Tommy Tune — 1983 Best Actor in a Musical (My One and Only)
• 3 more leading winners share this card.

FAQ

What is John Rubinstein's birth card?

The 10 of Clubs. December 8 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 John Rubinstein's dates come from?

Birth date 1946-12-08 is the day-precision date on John Rubinstein'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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