I have not yet visted our IKEA, despite having a $50 gift cert. to there, as it is insane and packed with crazed deal-seeking Minnesotans and Wisconsinites.
I spent Monday afternoon in Juliana's IKEA and can attest to the accuracy of her description.
Dana, Jerry Orbach was the first El Gallo, I'm pretty sure.
Oh, yeah, definitely. My parents have the OCR.
Sniffle. All my heroes are dying. I got the Lost Treasures of Broadway DVD, and it has killer footage of Orbach doing "The Lullaby of Broadway" from 42nd Street.
I spent Monday afternoon in Juliana's IKEA
Dude, you are one brave soul. I would have come down and brought you a drink if I had known you were so close.
Betsy, you are correct: Orbach created the role of El Gallo in the off-Broadway milestone “The Fantasticks.”
I saw him in 42nd Street, back in the day.
My parents have the OCR.
I read this as Optical Character Recognition and was mightily confused for a minute.
I don't believe IKEA exists. It's like I live in the world without Swedish meatballs and SLUGIS boxes.
They have the old-fashioned biochemical kind.
Speaking of which, off to the eye doctor for eyelid torture.
Oh, Betsy. I hope you're told you're all done with this, soon.
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Google has a [link] posted on its front page, which leads to the above page of tsunami victim relief sites, for anyone interested.
Rest in peace, Jerry Orbach.