File 12: John Frost interview and photograph by Martin Portus, 24 August 2022

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24 August 2022

Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories, Graphic Materials, Photographs

9668589

1 audio file (5 hr., 6 min.) - digital, WAV, stereo (24 bit, 48 kHz)
1 photograph - digital, colour

John Frost is an Australian producer who was born in Adelaide in 1952 and grew up watching early Australian and US television shows and JC Williamson’s musicals such as ‘Oliver!’ and ‘My Fair Lady’. Inspired by these, he entered the industry as a dresser on the musical ‘Mame’. In 1983 he established The Gordon Frost Organisation with Ashley Gordon, originally at Sydney’s Footbridge Theatre. Their first big US musical was ‘Jerry’s Girls’ and then in 1989, ‘Big River’. Frost went on to produce the multi-Tony Award winning musicals ‘The King and I’ and ‘Hairspray’. He has successfully collaborated with performing arts companies such Opera Australia. During his career he has produced nearly two hundred shows.

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ITEM 1
John Frost interview by Martin Portus, 24 August 2022

ITEM 2
Photograph of John Frost, 24 April 2022 / by Martin Portus

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