Wolverhampton Express and Star - Thursday 09 January 1997
Laugh? I thought my teeth would be pulled out
“Mad” Frankie Fraser headed up West today for the first time in his lengthy and notorious career.
An all-star audience including East-Enders star Barbara Windsor and his former ho.'-m, Eddie and Charlie Richardson, will attend an Evening With Frankie Fraser at a West End theatre.
Goodwill messages from Reggie and Charlie Kray are printed in the show’s programme expressing regret that mmumm-m men are still in prison.
The former pnfid enforcer is embarking on his theatrical run with his reminiscences of his days as The Dentist — a nickname he gained for %mmwm'mmmu in to gain confessions.
The "Mad" prefix was coined after he spent three separate spells in Broadmoor prison for the criminally insane.
“Break a leg? Only if it’s the Governor of Wandsworth's” retorted Frankie to the customary theatrical good wishes.
It won;t be a log stretch: the veteran of 40 years’ inside is booked for three days, matinees and evening performances.
Frankie, 72, has had success with one-man show at venues in London’s East End before, talking about the bad old days with the Richardson gang in chilling stye.
He’s even going to mention the time in 1973 when he tried to hang the Governor of Pentonville ifrom a tree using his pet dog's lead.
Frankie had followed him on to Wandsworth Common to settle a score.
He will be joined on stage at the Jermyn Street Theatre by his girlfriend Marilyn Wishey, a singer, and daugter of Great Train robber Tommy.
He said: “She sings some songs from the 19305, 19405, 1950 s and 19605. There’s a few new stories I haven’t told before, a lot of amusing things in life.”
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