Otherwise, Mr. Frazier's Broadway producing career was marked by some very notable, even historical, flops. He produced Hide and Seek, a 1980 thriller that ran all of 8 performances; ushered in End of the World, the 1984, Harold Prince-directed play that was author Arthur Kopit's last, brief gasp as a Broadway playwright; was one of the backers of another famous Prince misfire, the burlesque house-set musical Grind, which ran a couple months in 1985; and produced Mail, the little-seen 1988 musical by and starring actor Michael Rupert. His final Broadway credit was 3 From Brooklyn in 1992. Like Mail, it starred one of its creators, Sal Richards; and, like Mail, it didn't last long.
He first became a Broadway producer in 1973 when he joined several others to present a revival of Clare Booth Luce's The Women starring Kim Hunter, Myrna Loy and Alexis Smith.
Mr. Frazier also producer Off-Broadway, including the 1990 musical Further Mo' at the Village Gate, and, 1991, Brad Fraser's Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love at the Orpheum, which received a lot of attention for its gory subject matter but did not catch on with audiences.
In 1989, Mr. Frazier cast his lot in Chicago, initiating a non-profit enterprise at the Halsted Theatre Centre. "I want to do a series of four new American plays in the small space, each running about 6 to 10 weeks," he said at the time.