Spotlight on
Cameron MacKintosh
(1946 - present)
Sir Cameron Anthony Mackintosh was born in Enfield, London and is a British theatrical producer notable for his association with many commercially successful musicals. He is the producer of such shows as Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera, Miss Saigon, Mary Poppins, and Martin Guerre.
In 1980 MacKintosh collaborated with American satirist Tom Lehrer on a revue of his songs entitled Tomfoolery and in the same year Andrew Lloyd Webber suggested they should work together. Their first joint venture was Cats that opened at the New London Theatre in May 1981. In 1996-97 it became the longest running musical in the West End or in Broadway history until it was surpassed by The Phantom of the Opera in 2006. The phenomenal success of this musical has been repeated throughout the world and opened an era of international musical production undreamed of by previous generations.
Following Cats, came Song and Dance, Little Shop of Horrors, Blondel and Abbacadabra before the next milestone production in 1985 of Les Misérables and MacKintosh’s brilliantly successful collaboration with the writing teamof Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg.
Cameron MacKintosh
(1946 - present)
Sir Cameron Anthony Mackintosh was born in Enfield, London and is a British theatrical producer notable for his association with many commercially successful musicals. He is the producer of such shows as Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera, Miss Saigon, Mary Poppins, and Martin Guerre.
In 1980 MacKintosh collaborated with American satirist Tom Lehrer on a revue of his songs entitled Tomfoolery and in the same year Andrew Lloyd Webber suggested they should work together. Their first joint venture was Cats that opened at the New London Theatre in May 1981. In 1996-97 it became the longest running musical in the West End or in Broadway history until it was surpassed by The Phantom of the Opera in 2006. The phenomenal success of this musical has been repeated throughout the world and opened an era of international musical production undreamed of by previous generations.
Following Cats, came Song and Dance, Little Shop of Horrors, Blondel and Abbacadabra before the next milestone production in 1985 of Les Misérables and MacKintosh’s brilliantly successful collaboration with the writing teamof Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg.
