Meet John Frost, the man behind dozens of hit Australian musicals
From: The Weekend Australian Magazine
April 26, 2014
Golden touch: John Frost. Picture: Ellis Parrinder Source: Supplied
IF YOU were to look in on him now, in his corner office overlooking Sydney’s heart, you’d find a big man, a successful man; a powerful producer with Australian theatre’s biggest names at his beck and call, Tony awards on the mantelpiece and the ability to command respect on Broadway and in the West End. Suddenly John Frost, 61, interrupts himself with a delighted boyish giggle. In a blink you see a scrappy nine-year-old housing-commission kid putting on a show in his suburban Adelaide back yard, stage curtains on the washing line, his stutter-prone Aunt Mary singing The Rain in Spain from My Fair Lady like a trouper. Blink again and the kid’s 13, loitering in the foyer of Adelaide’s Her Majesty’s Theatre three Saturdays in a row just to watch the curtain come down on a musical called The Great Waltz. And then, at 15, there he is rattling across the Nullarbor with $30 in his pocket in hot pursuit of a dream.
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