Geoff Burmeister

Geoff Burmeister is a journalist, publicist, props manager.

Son of Sybil Summers.

ROUGH NOTES SENT TO ESAT ON 21 April 2017:

He was a publicist for Ronnie Quibell, Hymie Udwin, Yango John and Toby Kushlick, I was also the publicist for all Marge Chase's ice shows that traveled south on Africa in conjunction with Ster Films. So I was the person who always did better than Hazel Feldman with the pub the city in the magazines newspapers radio and eventually television. I was valved with K In Cape Town with both ballet and the opera companies as a props manager.

My mother Sybil Summers was British Dancing champion three times and one lots of awards. She arrived in this country with Bill Brewer's Seeing Stars in 1948, becoming well known for pantomimes in Cape Town and did several plays with Leonard Schach at the Luxarama theater in for to go in Cape Town off the ground with the first show being Cinderella and

She later became the sourcing agent for The Quibell's and the international shows.

After bringing Norman Wisdom to South Africa she became his agent and manager and from that managed to get Cilla Black and from there Harry Secombe Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers as their managers. My mother worked a lot with Toby Kushnick and was the lead in No No Nanette. She also made the gold fester in curtain for the three arts for which we have been playing an active part in, she also owned on a lease the Labia theater after Mr Michael's died.