Colin Croft started his stage career at the age of seven with the Young Australia League. I first saw him with this company in a performance at the Prince Edward Theatre. I was about seventeen at the time and Colin and I were about the same age.
During World War II I caught up with him again when he was a comedian, actor and dancer with an Australian Army Entertainment Unit in which he did a comedy act on roller skates.
After the war years Colin’s career blossomed and it took him all over the world in practically every branch of show business and he was equally at home in drama, variety, cabaret, films, television, radio, ballet and light opera as well as the concert platform.
He toured the Orient and South Pacific for four months making an extensive study of Japanese drama, Chinese opera and Polynesian dancing. He was also a writer and director.
At one stage in his career Colin was resident comedian at Sydney’s Menzies Hotel in a series of famous Broadway musicals, where the critics lauded him from ‘virtuoso’ to ‘tour de force’.
In 1970 before starting a 2 months tour of NSW country towns with Anna Russell in “The last gasp of Anna Russell with resuscitation by Colin Croft”, they did a run-in of their show at the Pocket Playhouse.
Sadly, Colin Croft died some years ago.
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