SRO For JO

Today is Jerry Orbach's birthday. Hard to believe he's gone. Though best known in later years as Detective Lennie Briscoe on Law & Order, he was a great musical star on stage, originating leads in The Fantasticks, Carnival!, Promises, Promises, Chicago and 42nd Street. If he'd lived in an era when Hollywood made a lot of musicals, I wonder if he'd have become a star that way?