Eddie Eckstein
ECKSTEIN, Eddie. (19**-) Singer, musician, comic and actor. Originally made his name in the 1960s/1970s as leader of the local pop-group The Bats. He starred in Brickhill-Burke’s production of Michael Stewarts I Love My Wife in 1982 at the Civic Theatre together with Tobie Cronje. It returned after a run in Sydney with Bartholomew John, Erica Rogers and Sharon Lynne having joined the cast. Constance Grappo directed him and Andre Hattingh in Howard Ashman and Alan Menken’s Little Shop of Horrors in 1984. ** **
ECKSTEIN, Eddie, Little Shop of Horrors, Pieter Toerien, Richard Loring, (ass. Prod) Cameron Mackintosh, produced by Constance Grappo, set by Edward T. Gianfrancesco, Jannie Swanepoel’s lighting, Andre Hattingh, Mike Huff, Michael Blaise, Vocalists: Stella Khumalo, Connie Chiume & Mandisa Dlanga, André Huguenet Theatre, Jhb & Baxter Theatre, 1985. (Tucker, 1997)
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