Cameron Mackintosh

Mackintosh at the premiere of Les Misérables in Australia (December 2012)

Sir Cameron Mackintosh (born October 17, 1946 in Enfield, London ) is a British theater and musical producer .

Life and career

Cameron Mackintosh is the son of a Scottish father and a Maltese mother. He attended Prior Park College in Bath . Mackintosh began his theater career as a stagehand at theaters in the West End of London, later as a stage manager on tours.

Mackintosh has been named "the most successful, influential and powerful theater producer in the world" by the New York Times . 1996 Cameron Mackintosh was beaten by Queen Elizabeth II for his services in music theater to a Knight Bachelor . The 2011 Sunday Times Rich List valued Mackintosh with a personal fortune of £ 675 million, making him the third richest person in the UK music industry. In addition to his work as a theater producer and business with musical licenses, Cameron Mackintosh now also owns seven theaters in London: the Prince Edward , the Prince of Wales , the Novello , the Queen's , the Gielgud , the Wyndham's and the Noël Coward .

Mackintosh lives with his partner, the Australian theater photographer Michael Le Poer Trench, whom he met in 1982 in Adelaide, Australia at the premiere of a production of the musical Oklahoma! got to know.

Act

After early touring productions through English provincial theaters and productions such as Anything Goes , Side By Side By Sondheim , The Card , My Fair Lady and Tom Foolery , Cameron Mackintosh made his international breakthrough in 1981 as a theater producer of the world-famous Cats . Cats held the longest-running musical record in London's West End for many years and had similar success on Broadway in New York City .

This success was only replaced by the musical production Les Misérables (1986). Macintosh became aware of the piece after its premiere in Paris in 1980 and prompted the artistic team to make a makeover that was aimed at an international audience. He produced this revised version with great success on Broadway. Mackintosh produced other successful musicals such as Miss Saigon , The Phantom of the Opera , Mary Poppins , Oliver! , Five Guys Named Moe and Martin Guerre .

Mackintosh was also responsible for the Oklahoma Revivals in the 1990s ! , My Fair Lady and Carousel at the National Theater in London. His less successful productions included Moby Dick and a stage adaptation of John Updike's The Witches of Eastwick . In 1995 Mackintosh produced a concert for Les Misérables in London for its tenth anniversary.

In 2010 Mackintosh produced a revival of the musical Hair at London's Gielgud Theater.

Cameron Mackintosh is part of the production team for the film Les Misérables and was nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Picture in 2013.

He also produced the revised revival of Half a Sixpence , which was played at London's Noël Coward Theater from November 2016 to September 2017 .

He is a patron of the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts .

Documentation

• 1998: Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh (almost 3-hour gala concert for Cameron Mackintosh's 30th anniversary in show business, at which numerous music titles from his productions were performed.)
• 2017: Cameron Mackintosh: The Musical Man (90-minute documentary from the BBC series Imagine about the life and work of Cameron Mackintosh.)

Web links

• Page from Mackintosh
• Cameron Mackintosh at the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Cameron Mackintosh: Wizard of the West End," The Independent
2. ^ "The Musical is Money to His Ears" in: New York Times
3. ^ "The top 50 richest people in music: Sunday Times Rich List"
4. ↑ John Gapper: Interview: Cameron Mackintosh , Financial Times, January 15, 2016.
5. ↑ Hermione Eyre: Play it again, Cam: How Mr Mackintosh became theatreland's first ever billionaire , Evening Standard, May 15, 2014.
6. ↑ "'Miss Saigon' listing, West End" ( Memento of the original from December 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ Jones, Kenneth. "UK's 'Moby Dick!' Musical Gets NYC Reading In Anticipation of US Licensing " ( Memento of the original from January 31, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. playbill.com 
8. ↑ Hair stages a Sixties reunion ( Memento of the original from April 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. London Evening Standard