Lawrence Brooks (August 7, 1912April 15, 1994) was an American singer and actor.

Biography

Brooks was born in

Westbrook, Maine Westbrook is a city in Cumberland County, Maine, United States and a suburb of Portland. The population was 20,400 at the 2020 census, making it the fastest-growing city in Maine between 2010 and 2020. It is part of the Portland– South Portla ...

Number: 006-09-8048; Issue State: Maine; Issue Date: Before 1951) He was a singer and actor who had an active career performing in musicals and

operetta Operetta is a form of theatre and a genre of light opera. It includes spoken dialogue, songs, and dances. It is lighter than opera in terms of its music, orchestral size, length of the work, and at face value, subject matter. Apart from its s ...

s throughout the United States during the 1940s through the 1960s. He drew particular acclaim for his portrayal of composer

Edvard Grieg Edvard Hagerup Grieg ( , ; 15 June 18434 September 1907) was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is widely considered one of the foremost Romantic era composers, and his music is part of the standard classical repertoire worldwide. His use of ...

in the original 1944

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production of Robert Wright and George Forrest's ''

Song of Norway ''Song of Norway'' is an operetta written in 1944 by Robert Wright and George Forrest, adapted from the music of Edvard Grieg and the book by Milton Lazarus and Homer Curran. A very loose film adaptation with major changes to both the book ...

''. In 1948, he starred in " My Romance", taking over the role for Broadway from

Charles Fredericks Charles Fredericks (born Fred Cockerham; or Crockenham; September 5, 1918 – May 14, 1970) was an American actor of stage, television, and film. Early years Fredericks was born Fred Cockerham (or Crockenham) the son of a Presbyterian ministe ...

. He died in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in 1994, aged 81.

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* American male musical theatre actors 20th-century American male opera singers 1912 births 1994 deaths People from Westbrook, Maine Male actors from Maine Singers from Maine 20th-century American male actors {{US-theat-actor-stub