Cameron Mackintosh Biography
Cameron Mackintosh born Sir Cameron Anthony Mackintosh is a British theatrical producer and theatre owner known for his relationship with many commercially successful musicals.
He was raised in Roman Catholic faith and studied at Prior Park College in Bath. He is the son of Ian Robert Mackintosh, a timber merchant and jazz trumpeter and Diana Gladys, a production secretary. His father was of Scottish descent, while his mother, a native of Malta, was of Maltese and French descent.
At the age of eight, he discovered his career as a theatre producer after his aunt took him to a matinee of the Julian Slade musical Salad Days. He debuted on theatre in his late teens, as a stagehand at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, and then an assistant stage manager on several touring productions.
In the 1970s, he began producing his own small tours before becoming a London-based producer. His first London productions included The Card of 1973, Anything Goes in 1969, My Fair Lady in 1978, Side by Side by Sondheim in 1976 and Tomfoolery in 1980.
In 1990, he was described by the New York Times as the most successful, influential and powerful theatrical producer in the world. He is the producer of shows such as Les Misérables, Mary Poppins, Oliver!, The Phantom of the Opera, Cats, Miss Saigon, and Hamilton.
In 1996, he was knighted for services to musical theatre. He was ranked number 7 by The Daily Telegraph in 2008, in their list of the “100 most powerful people in British culture”. In the Sunday Times Rich List of 2011, ranked as the third richest person in the British music industry.
Cameron Mackintosh Age
He was born on 17 October 1946 London Borough of Enfield, United Kingdom. He is 72 years old as of 2018.
Cameron Mackintosh Wife
He is married to Michael Le Poer Trench, an Australian born theatre photographer. The couple met at the opening night of a production of Oklahoma! in 1982, in Adelaide, Australia.
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Cameron Mackintosh Theatres
Delfont Mackintosh Theatres is his theatre group. The company was founded in 1991 by Mackintosh and Bernard Delfont. The group owns eight London theatres.
Headquarters: London, United Kingdom
Founder: Cameron Mackintosh
Founded: 1991, London, United Kingdom
Parent organization: Cameron Mackintosh
Subsidiary: Prince of Wales Theatre
Cameron Mackintosh Productions
- Anything Goes
- Salad Days
- The Card
- Godspell
- Side by Side by Sondheim
- Oliver!
- My Fair Lady
- Oklahoma!
- Tomfoolery
- Cats
- Little Shop of Horrors
- Song and Dance
- Abbacadabra
- The Boy Friend
- Les Misérables
- The Phantom of the Opera
- Follies
- Miss Saigon
- Five Guys Named Moe
- Moby Dick
- Putting It Together
- Carousel
- Martin Guerre
- The Fix
- Hey, Mr. Producer!
- Swan Lake
- The Witches of Eastwick
- Mary Poppins
- Just So
- Avenue Q
- The Sundowe
- Hair
- Betty Blue Eyes
- Barnum
- Kinky Boots
- Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
- Half a Sixpence
- Hamilton
Cameron Mackintosh Net Worth
He was rated in the Sunday Times Rich List of 2011, to have an estimated net worth of £675 million ($1.1 billion).
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Cameron Mackintosh Interview
Interview and videos: Theater legend Cameron Mackintosh shares secrets of the success of ‘Les Miserables,’ ‘Phantom of the Opera’
Updated: September 16, 2018
A version of this story appears in the Sunday Life section of The Oklahoman.
The producer: ‘Les Miserables,’ ‘Phantom of the Opera’s’ Cameron Mackintosh shares secrets of his success
There’s nothing basic about the career Sir Cameron Mackintosh, who over the past half-century has become widely regarded as the most successful theater producer in the world.
Looking back, though, the legendary impresario said he sees something basic in how he chose so many successful shows.
“It’s very interesting going over my career now, which is over 50 years, nearly every single musical that I’ve done has been based on an existing classic, whether it be a book or a film or occasionally a play. There’s always a classic piece of writing, whether it be Pamela Travers, for instance, with ‘Mary Poppins’ to … ‘The Witches of Eastwick’ by John Updike. I’ve even done Herman Melville with ‘Moby Dick.’ I seem to be drawn to stories by great writers,” Mackintosh said in a recent phone interview from his native England.
“I think because of that, the shows, if they work, they’re the shows I find it easier to continue working on, because with great writing you can always find a fresh way of doing something. That’s why they become classics and get reinvented generation after generation.”
Among his extensive credits, Mackintosh, 71, is perhaps best known for producing three of the longest-running musicals of all time with “Les Misérables,” “The Phantom of the Opera” and “Cats” – three titles OKC Broadway is bringing to the Civic Center Music Hall in its 2018-19 season.
“When I’m picking, I usually start very early in the process … either a first draft or an act or something and I go, ‘Do I love the story? Do I love the characters (and) will I want to live with them for a long time?’” Mackintosh said. “Then, ‘Is the music good enough to tell the story on the stage?’ Those are the three questions I ask myself before I pick it up.
“Luckily, the things I’ve liked the public have liked, too, and continued to like them.”
In a highlight from the most recent season of “Saturday Night Live,” a long-lived “Diner Lobster” (Kenan Thompson) about to be boiled for someone’s meal ponders in song “Who am I?” launching the cast into an elaborate riff on one of ex-convict Jean Valjean’s most iconic moments from “Les Miserables.” Although he didn’t to see the three-song sketch created by former “SNL” writer and recent host John Mulaney, Mackintosh said he loves that “Les Miz” remains so resonant and recognizable.
“I haven’t seen that one, but there are always so many. I love it,” he said with a laugh. “It’s brilliant when it’s become so much part of popular culture that everyone has an instant reference to it.”
An add-on to OKC Broadway’s 2018-19 subscription season, Mackintosh will present the new production of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg’s Tony-winning musical in Oklahoma City following a celebrated 2 ½-year Broadway revival. The famed adaptation of Victor Hugo’s story of love, mercy and redemption set in revolutionary France, “Les Miz” will play OKC Tuesday through Sept. 23.
Source: newsok.com