Maya Cohen

At the ripe age of eight, Yehezkel Lazarov began to tap dance. At the age of nine, he watched A Chorus Line on VHS and knew exactly what he wanted to be. Since then, he has managed to become one of the most active and original artists in Israel, mastering every field he dips his pinky toe in – acting, dancing, directing, writing, stage design, and, in recent years, teaching.   He recently played the lead role in The Picture of Dorian Gray, which he also adapted, directed, and designed for Habima. In Moscow, he starred in the series The Mentalist, despite not knowing a lick of Russian. And now, he's taking to the stage of Tel Aviv's acclaimed Cameri Theater with the Tony Award-winning musical, A Chorus Line. Add to this the fact that for five years he has also been involved in education at Studio Ankori (a high school for creative thinking and entrepreneurship that he founded together with Osnat Haber Koton), and you can believe him when he says that he hardly ever sleeps.    From Gesher to Broadway   © Eyal Landesman   After years of escaping from the world of musicals, at 44, Lazarov is starring in the most classic musical of all, and this choice seems to be the best gift he could have given himself. "A Chorus Line created a meeting point between two extremes for me – a sense of ironic fate," he explains. "On the one hand, it brings me to my earliest places; I started to tap dance at the age of eight because ballet was frowned upon, I saw the film at the age of nine, and t