Frank Lazarus

LAZARUS, Frank. (19*-) Actor. ** He starred in Louis Burke’s production of The Beggar’s Opera which opened in Cape Town in 1965, and then in Johannesburg in 1966. It also starred David Holliday, Louis Burke, Joan Brickhill and Maggie Soboil. He soon teamed up with Maggie Soboil as a revue partnership, performing across the world before he settled in London. He did the vocal arrangements for Joan Brickhill and Louis Burke’s The Minstrel Scandals for ACT, which opened at the Alhambra Theatre in Cape Town before playing at the Empire Theatre in 1966. Boris Cohen was the musical director, and other performers included Lynton Burns, Olive King, Michael Fisher, Stephanie Shiller, Beryl Ellis, Jeanette James, Ronnie Grainge and Charles Stodel with Joan Brickhill playing the lead girl. He starred in Leonard Schach’s production of Shaw’s Heartbreak House for PACT at the Alexander in 1967. It also starred Siegfried Mynhardt, Alec Bell, Elizabeth Meyer, Kerry Jordan, Francois Swart, Joan Blake and Maggie Soboil. He starred in Toerien-Rubin Company’s revue Maggie and Frank, together with Maggie Soboil, at the Brooke Theatre in 1967 ***(Tucker, 1997).

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