Meet ‘Last Night of Ballyhoo’ actor Lexie Anne Cole
The 1997 Tony Award-winning comedy/drama The Last Night of Ballyhoo opens at the Laboratory Theater of Florida on April 14. Among the show’s talented cast is Lexie Cole, who plays the role of Lala Freitag.
Lab Theater audiences had a brief glimpse of Lexie in the season opener, Gore Vidal’s The Best Man, where she played Catherine, a campaign aide to former Secretary of State William Russell who is 
smitten by the debonair candidate for his party’s nomination for President of the United States. You may have also seen the 16-year-old is Cypress Lake High School junior and theater major as Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at CLHSCA or in the role of an ancestor in her high school’s production of The Addams Family musical.
March 31, 2017.
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Tom Hall is both an amateur artist and aspiring novelist who writes art quest thrillers. He is in the final stages of completing his debut novel titled "Art Detective," a story that fictionalizes the discovery of the fabled billion-dollar Impressionist collection of Parisian art dealer Josse Bernheim-Jeune, thought by many to have perished during World War II when the collection's hiding place, Castle de Rastignac in southern France, was destroyed by the Wehrmacht in reprisal for attacks made by members of the Resistance operating in the area. A former tax attorney, Tom holds a bachelor's degree as well as both a juris doctorate and masters of laws in taxation from the University of Florida. Tom lives in Estero, Florida with his fiancee, Connie, and their four cats.