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The Wonder that is Cameron Mackintosh

Achievements

  • First British producer to be inducted into Broadway’s American Theater Hall of Fame.
  • Relaunched Miss Saigon at the Prince Edward Theatre in London, celebrating 25 years since the musical first launched.
  • knighted in the 1996 New Year Honours for services to musical theatre.
  • listed 4th on The Independent on Sunday's Pink List, a list of the most influential "out-and-proud" gay men and women.
  • He is a Patron of The Food Chain, a London-based HIV charity.

Influence

Mackintosh is notable as a producer for his changing of the musical into a globalbrand, and was the first theatrical producer to recognize that touring productions and worldwide productions were highly big markets.

Mackintosh has also had success in bringing theater directors (such as the Royal Shakespeare Company's Trevor Nunn and Nicholas Hytner) and technicians to the world of musical theatre.

He is renowned for how closely he works with the creative team of a production.

He has recently expressed his interest in producing musicals from the otherwise neglected Asian and African regions

Mackintosh's Delfont Mackintosh group owns seven London theatres, the Prince Edward, the Prince of Wales, the Novello, the Queen's, the Gielgud, the Wyndham's, and the Noël Coward.

Walt Disney Theatrical president Thomas Schumacher met with Mackintosh in 2001 to discuss making Mary Poppins into a stage musical. Mackintosh's involvement of the 1964 musical adaptation led to producing both the 2004 West End and 2006 Broadway productions, at the Prince Edward Theater and the New Amsterdam Theater. He co-produced the London transfer of Avenue Q, which opened in the West End at the Noël Coward Theater on 1 June 2006.

In 1998, Mackintosh celebrated thirty years in show business with Hey, Mr. Producer!, a gala concert featuring songs from shows he had produced during his career. The concert was performed twice with proceeds going to the Royal National Institute of Blind People and the Combined Theatrical Charities. Many celebrities took part, and the 8 June performance was attended by Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

First Hits

In 1981, he produced Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats, but considered it to be a flop on the Broadway stages. It became the hit of the season and went on to become one of the longest running musicals. After Cats, he approached the French writing team Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil about bringing their musical Les Misérables to the stage. The musical opened in 1985 at the Barbican before transferring to the Palace Theater. Les Misérables had a difficult start when it first came out, but as more people talked about it, it soon became another big hit. In 1986, Mackintosh produced Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, which is the most commercially successful musical of all time, beating hit films such as Titanic and E.T.. The original London production is still running, along with the New York production, which is the longest-running Broadway musical of all time.

Cameron Mackintosh

Early Theater Life

Cameron Mackintosh was born on October 17th 1946 in Enfield, Middlesex, England.

He is a british Musical/Broadway producer, he produced the great widely popular shows such as Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera, Mary Poppins, Oliver!, Miss Saigon and Cats.

Mackintosh was born in Enfield, London, he is the son of a production secretary, (mother) and a timber merchant and jazz trumpeter. (father) His father was Scottish and his mother was of French descent. Mackintosh was raised in his mother's Roman Catholic faith and educated at Prior Park College in Bath.

He first knew that he wanted to become a theater producer after his aunt took him to a matinee of the Julian Slade musical Salad Days when he was 8 years old. He began his theater career in his teens, as a stagehand at the Theater Royal, Drury Lane, and then became an assistant stage manager on several touring productions. He began producing his own small tours before becoming a producer in the 1970s. His early productions included Anything Goes in 1969 (which closed after only two weeks), The Card (1973), Side by Side by Sondheim (1976), My Fair Lady (1978) and Tom Foolery (1980).

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