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Farewell: Jerry Orbach. To most of you he's the Law & Order dude, but I remember him from just about the earliest memories I have, and that goes back a piece! Back then I thought of him as a singer. Orbach was the original El Gallo in the legendary long-running play, The Fantastiks - which opened in 1959, and even before that played Mack the Knife in The Threepenny Opera. He made a dramatic career shift, and most of you probably don't even know of his song and dance days. I haven't heard him sing in the past 25 years or so!