Tony Awards ：42nd Street " The Lullaby of Broadway "

[ToriaHood]

@TheDragoxter Must be a damn good school of the arts..

[DANCE4YOURLIFE99]

AWESOME! my dance studio is celebrating 100 years of Broadway at the Hanover Theater! our hw was 2 watch this video........so awesome thx shannon and meridith!! i <3 it

[SDVR007]

im julian marsh in this and the director decided to keep the "suitcase sway". Awesome

[LittleOperaAngel]

a truly great man...and wonderful actor...RIP Jerry Orbach

[NerdyWolfie]

Thanks! My school was doing this production and it really helped me with the words :D

[lollilolliPOP692]

I'm so excited! My school is doing this show! We are using the same coreography because my director knows the coregrapher! I'm just a dancer but I still like it!

[larrydonguy]

Terrific. What a versatile performer Orbach was! What a great songwriter Harry Warren was!

[TheDragoxter]

my school did this a lot better

[MrSuperJakezilla]

@TheDragoxter No, they didn't.

[TheDragoxter]

@MrSuperJakezilla YES THEY DID

[ChicagoSouthDan]

@TheDragoxter Nobody believes that your school did a better job than a professional Broadway production. Do you have a video you can post?

[Steamrunner92]

@TheDragoxter "Better" is a very subjective term, especially in the arts. In what ways do you believe your school's production was superior to the Broadway production?

[grovepointpress]

The Legendary Jerry Orbach. Need I say more?

[torisgorawr]

my school is doing this as the spring musical ♥

[broadwaybaby165]

I looooooooove this play/song!!! This was the first play i ever saw, and i absolutly love this scene!!! Thank you soooooooooo much for uploading it!!

[MrFoh85]

I have to agree with this being the best musical

[garylibra]

Conventional wisdom says that 'A Chorus Line' is the perfect Broadway musical. I say that distinction belongs to '42nd Street'.

[isitfunthere1]

Who's the woman playing Peggy?

I have a few hunches but can't find the info anywhere!

[jf329]

@isitfunthere1 That would be Wanda Richert.

[isitfunthere1]

@jf329 That's just what I thought. Thanks a ton. :)

[Smile6784]

I saw him on Broadway - I still miss him.

[RosesNightengales]

I never knew he was the original Julian Marsh.

[daritykane7]

she goin bak to allentown thats where im from

[tangens0]

Dang it Orbach, stop beeing handsome! Oops, that's right... he did. Sad now...

[ShaiHuludisCool]

I love this video, but doesn't what they're doing qualify as harassment? She's just trying to leave and go home, but they stop her at every turn, even physically restraining her at some points. I'd be calling the cops if I were her, but considering how this is a musical they'd probably start singing and dancing as well.

[ChicagoSouthDan]

@ShaiHuludisCool That's something I never considered before. I suppose it is harassment. Of course, this was in the days before cell phones and she was not able to get to a phone to call police. I suppose if she did call the police, Jerry Orbach would just bring forth his Law and Order detective character, Lennie Briscoe, and tell the cops to get lost :-).

[SirChezarie]

@ShaiHuludisCool Well - this is 1932. Theres a depression,people gotta eat . Desperate times desperate measures. Still if I had a whole bunch of people singing at me ..........

[ChicagoSouthDan]

@DeeBeene Do you have any video clips you can post?

[ChicagoSouthDan]

@DeeBeene I ask for a clip because my tendency is to believe that only the family and friends of the people in the show would believe that a high school production would be as good as an award-winning Broadway production. However, you can always post the clip and prove me wrong.

[mkolstee]

@DeeBeene , no offense sweety, but I have a hunch that if we "compared" your cast to "these guys", you would not like the responses. It's good to take pride in your high school productions, but it's also good to be realistic about the level of performance achieved.

[ChicagoSouthDan]

@mkolstee In fairness to DeeBeene, his first posting was worded poorly. It sounded as if he thought the high school production he saw was much better than the folks in this clip. In his response to my somewhat negative post of one week ago, he meant that the high school production he saw was of professional quality, since a couple of the people in the show now have theater scholarships and the production was praised by people not connected with it.

[ChicagoSouthDan]

@ChicagoSouthDan The negative response DeeBeene received may be what caused him to delete his posts.

[robbwayfan]

If there was a time machine, I would love to go back and see the whole show.

[GiveMeThisMoment]

The golden years of Broadway... <3

[montmorency8050]

I look at him and see Lumiere. And smile. And watch some more :)

[tunapup1]

I wasn't even born when 42nd Street first came to Broadway, but I did get to see the revival (although not with the original cast) and while it was very good...it's extremely hard to live up to Jerry Orbach. That man has such talent =)

[theatreluver19]

Jerry Orbach is just a god.

[t47ty]

i did this song back in high school

[mexiitalianbabe]

Oh em gee!:)

I love 42nd street

I loveee ths part!

[HJDyson]

He has a strange way of singing...

[ChicagoSouthDan]

@HJDyson What do you mean?

[HJDyson]

@ChicagoSouthDan Well, it'll sound a bit odd, but when I used to go this performing school thingy, there was this one girl who had a strange habit...Whenever she was trying to show off she'd go "American" in her singing. Which meant she pulled a funny face, sang with an American accent and sang out the SIDE of her mouth...like sideways >.< And I just noticed, that although he has an incredible voice...he does kinda...sing sideways xD

Yeah I'm a bit odd xD!

[Sassyscottishlassy]

@HJDyson I watched, and I get what you mean

[superhetoric]

THIS is broadway, people!

[Smile6784]

God - I saw him on Broadway in this role.

The man was awesome!

[Silverdragon5862]

From watching jerry on tv you would never have guessed he had such an amazing voice. My grandmother had a chance to see one of his performances and she told me he was beyond amazing when he sang.

[LemonySnicketsWife]

RIP JERRY</3

[44032]

Actors on TV are showing us less than 10% of their talents. Jerry was a top song and dance man on Broadway for decades before he became Lenny Briscoe. You could probalby put on a Broadway show with people who were on the Law & order shows over the years. Jerry, Jesse Martin, Bebe Neuwirth, Tova Feldshuh, etc.

[Kisa01]

lol, talk about putting the pressure on someone.

[brabon1]

this was the first musical i ever saw on broadway....it was brilliant

[sweetezpeach]

OMG I DID NOT KNOW HE WAS IN THEATRE...THATS SO AWESOME!

[MarshallMoomins]

omg i never knew he was a singer or starred in musicals. excellent.

[delehanty1969]

Jerry Orbach was the best!  Great jog Lenny!

[yellowman]

i wish orbach got more badass roles. can you imagine him as Max the Broker in Jackie Brown?

[TheBriannaCollier]

Wasn't he the dad in Dirty Dancing? <3

[ChicagoSouthDan]

@TheBriannaCollier Yes. What's kind of ironic is that he had extensive experience and critical acclaim doing musicals on Broadway and elsewhere by the time Dirty Dancing was made, but he does no singing in Dirty Dancing.

[musicalmeg19]

This is just incredible! I've seen it so many times before and never grow old of it. Does anyone know what year this was?

[ChicagoSouthDan]

@musicalmeg19 An earlier post, jimraw1, said it was 1981

[RosesNightengales]

I never knew Jerry Orbach was in 42nd Street. He's pretty good. Seriously.

[amazinggarrett1]

@RosesNightengales He started his career on Broadway, I believe.

[DylHsu]

gaffe? "The costumes never seen, the scenery (uhhhh) never.. seen, the orchestrations never heard"

hehehe it is "worn" but jerry is still irreplaceable

[ChicagoSouthDan]

@DylHsu I wondered about that too, since he hesitated and used the word "seen" twice, for costumes and scenery. But it could have been in the original script. Maybe the character, Mr. Marsh, could not think of anything except to use the word seen again. You would need to check the original script.

[ChicagoSouthDan]

@ChicagoSouthDan Of course, the hesitation came before the word orchestrations and after the second seen, so it's probably in the original script.

[DylHsu]

@ChicagoSouthDan i've seen several productions of this show and it's always done "worn." how does this sound... you pay the licensing fees for a copy of the script from tams-witmark and we find out :)

[ChicagoSouthDan]

@DylHsu That sounds like a bad idea. When you put the word "gaffe?" followed by a question mark, I thought you did not know if it was a gaffe or not. Therefore, I was not arguing with you. I was speculating on whether or not it was a gaffe. Since "The costumes never worn" makes sense, you have seen several productions and it has been "worn", and I have never seen any productions, I guess it was a gaffe.

[DylHsu]

@ChicagoSouthDan yes, i was only joking about paying those mountainous licenses fees. in any case i'm sure we can agree jerry orbach's exquisite.

[ChicagoSouthDan]

@DylHsu Agreed. Before the Law and Order series, I became acquainted with him as El Gallo (the Narrator) in the original Broadway cast album of The Fantastiks.

[ChicagoSouthDan]

@ChicagoSouthDan Actually, I don't think The Fantastiks never made it to Broadway, but he is on the original cast album.

[ChicagoSouthDan]

@ChicagoSouthDan Whoops. I meant "ever made it Broadway", not "never made it to Broadway".

[emilypeace94]

I didn't know he could do this! I only knew him from that guy in law in order and of course! the dad from dirty dancing.  Now I find out he was the directer in this play and! lumniare (spelling?) from Beauty and the Beast, my all time favorite disney movie!

[arpeggio1358]

@emilypeace94 Jerry did everything and did it beautifully! Yes, he was also Lumiere in Beauty and the Beast. The director of this production of 42nd Street, however, was Gower Champion. I believe he died on opening night. He was one of the "greats" too.

[arpeggio1358]

@emilypeace94 I just checked Wikipedia. Gower Champion did indeed die the day 42nd Street opened on Broadway. Nobody in the cast was told. David merrick, the show's producer, went onstage at the end of the performance and told everyone that Champion had died.

[jaspar38]

I think the only thing that could have been added to make this perfect was a kickline. :-P

[bevanne12]

i saw 42nd street in London around 1979 or so and it was amazing..not sure if it was this version but there's nothing like musical theater...sad that many people do not experience musicals

[iluvtheighties]

she looks like elaine page but is it? no maybe not

[CaptainOT]

@iluvtheighties The actress playing Peggy Sawyer is Wanda Richert.

[jdlaw001]

He definitely looks like Lumiere from Beauty and the Beast.

[shiratel]

This is AMAZING :D

[KHearts16]

why isn't that some of the actors on Broadway go onto Law and Order lol.

[sexyk1987]

whoa didnt know he sang awesome !!

[letitbe692]

I'm playing Julian Marsh in my school's production of 42nd Street. This video has helped me so much. I hope I did this half as well as he did because Jerry Orbach just left me speechless.

[SueBeaWho]

LOVE IT!!!

[oldixe]

Just watching Law & Order, one would never have known how terrifically talented this man was. What a loss!

[machinegunvibrato]

his face at 00:16 is PRICELESS.

[rebwanz]

what year was this? 1982?

[jimraw1]

@rebwanz 1981. Ironically Orbach wasn't even nominated for a Tony that year - Kevin Kline (who won for Pirates of Penzance), Gregory Hines, George Rose and Martin Vidnovic were. The saddest story about 42nd Street is that Gower Champion (who directed the show) died of cancer hours before opening night. The cast (including Champion's girlfriend) were not told until the end of the performance.

[deathlyhallows19]

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[sirobynits101]

best broadway show ever written

[dennykdoe]

@sirobynits101 What's ironic,of course, is that it wasn't written for Broadway--it's cobbled together from the Hollywood work of Warren and Dubin. Not that it's anything short of magnificent. But in remembering Jerry Orbach--I worship him--let's also remember the guys whose songwriting skill gave this thing it's body. Because they're kinda forgotten, except by us fans of old Warner Bros. musicals.

[john170252]

Class act and well-respected. RIP, Jerry

[newrochellephoenix]

The man was truly great .

[poltallach]

Hooray Jerry!

[PiecesOfRainbow7]

i love him i love him i love him.

<3

[horrorlvr12]

I miss Jerry Orbach! :3 Two words, pure talent!

[Celeblain]

He was a very talented man.

[RosesNightengales]

Jerry Orbach is freaking awesome!

[MasterManto]

Wow, Jerry Orbach sure is amazing. :D

[arpeggio1358]

@MasterManto Yes, he was. He was my favorite actor, and he is greatly missed.

[jocelyneskennedy]

@MasterManto  I miss him so much..

[cakeetyummy]

This gives me the chills. Jeez they're so good.