Background
He was born in 1976(1977) in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, United States.
He was born in 1976(1977) in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, United States.
He graduated from Cherry Hill High School West in 1994. Lazar attended Duke University where he earned a Bachelor in music in 1998, while completing the prerequisite classes for medical school and taking the MCAT. He then studied at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM), where he earned an Master of Fine Arts in musical theater in 2000.
After landing the role of understudy to the lead in the Broadway National Tour of The Scarlet Pimpernel only months after moving to New York City, Lazar abandoned his aspirations of being a medical doctor.