Today the late actor Jerry Orbach (1935-2004) is best remembered as the world-weary New York City Detective Lennie Briscoe from the Emmy Award-winning NBC television series �Law and Order�. But that work only accounts for 12 years of a 50-year career that spanned stage screen and television. From the moment he landed the role of the Street Singer in the 1955 off-Broadway revival of �The Threepenny Opera� he distinguished himself as a major performer in popular musicals and plays including �The Fantasticks� ...
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Today the late actor Jerry Orbach (1935-2004) is best remembered as the world-weary New York City Detective Lennie Briscoe from the Emmy Award-winning NBC television series �Law and Order�. But that work only accounts for 12 years of a 50-year career that spanned stage screen and television. From the moment he landed the role of the Street Singer in the 1955 off-Broadway revival of �The Threepenny Opera� he distinguished himself as a major performer in popular musicals and plays including �The Fantasticks� �Carnival� �Scuba Duba� �Promises Promises� �6 RMS RIV VU� �Chicago� and �42nd Street�.��Jerry Orbach also appeared in over 40 films with �Crimes and Misdemeanors�; �Prince of the City�; �Dirty Dancing�; and the voice of the candlestick Lumi�re in Disney's �Beauty and the Beast� topping the list. From the '60s through the '90s he was a guest or featured actor on major TV hits like �The Defenders�; �Love American Style�; �Murder She Wrote�; �The Golden Girls�; and �Frasier�. �Jerry Orbach Prince of the City� is the story of this versatile performer � his triumphs and tragedies public and private. Most of all it is a study of a gifted actor's craft as told through the observations insights and reminiscences of those who knew him best.�Listen to John Anthony Gilvey live at Book Expo America on the BEA Podcast.
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New in new dust jacket. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Contains: Illustrations, black & white, Illustrations, color, Frontispiece. Audience: General/trade. 2011 edition as pictured. Book is NEW