![]() He started the theatre group Delfont Mackintosh Theatres in 1991.ĭisney Theatrical Productions president Thomas Schumacher met with Mackintosh in 2001 to discuss making Mary Poppins into a stage musical. Mackintosh became a co-owner of the theatrical licensing company Music Theatre International in 1990. He produced the stage adaptation of John Updike's The Witches of Eastwick (2000) which despite some positive reviews and a run of over 15 months, failed to replicate the worldwide success of his previous blockbusters. Mackintosh's less successful London productions include Moby Dick (1993) and Martin Guerre (1996). Additionally he was responsible for presenting the West End transfers of the National Theatre revivals of Oklahoma! (1999), My Fair Lady (2001), and Carousel (1993). In 1995, Mackintosh produced the 10th anniversary concert of Les Misérables in London. Mackintosh has produced several other successful musicals, including Five Guys Named Moe (both in London in 1990 and on Broadway) and a revised London production of Stephen Sondheim's Follies in 1987. Asian American actors protested the casting of a Caucasian actor and the use of yellowface in the role of the pimp. It was similarly successful, and the 1991 Broadway production had what was then the largest advance ticket sales in theatre history prior to its controversy. He produced Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil's next musical Miss Saigon, which opened at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in the West End in September 1989. The original London production is still running and is the 3rd longest running production in London, along with the New York production, which is the longest-running Broadway musical of all time. In 1986, Mackintosh produced Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, which is one of the most commercially successful musicals of all time. Les Misérables had a shaky start at the box office and a lukewarm critical reception before becoming a massive hit, largely by word-of-mouth and is now the longest running musical and second longest running London production. The musical opened in 1985 at the Barbican before transferring to the Palace Theatre. After the success of Cats, he approached the French writing team Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil about bringing their musical Les Misérables (then a successful French concept album) to the London stage. It became the hit of the season, and went on to become one of the longest running musicals on both sides of the Atlantic. In 1981, he produced Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats, then considered an unlikely subject for a musical. His early London productions included Anything Goes in 1969 (which closed after a mere two weeks), The Card (1973), Side by Side by Sondheim (1976), My Fair Lady (1978), and Tomfoolery (1980). He began producing his own small tours before becoming a London-based producer in the 1970s. In 1967, working with Robin Alexander, he co-produced five plays at the Kenton Theatre, Henley. Mackintosh began his theatre career in his late teens, as a stagehand at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, and then became an assistant stage manager on several touring productions. He first knew that he wanted to become a theatre producer after his aunt took him to a matinee of the Julian Slade musical Salad Days when he was eight years old. Mackintosh was raised in his mother's Roman Catholic faith and educated at Prior Park College in Bath. His father was Scottish, and his mother who was a native of Malta, was of Maltese and French descent. Mackintosh was born in Enfield, London, the son of Diana Gladys (née Tonna), a production secretary, and Ian Robert Mackintosh, a timber merchant and jazz trumpeter. In the Sunday Times Rich List of 2021, Mackintosh was estimated to have a net worth of £1.2 billion. In 2008, The Daily Telegraph ranked him number 7 in their list of the "100 most powerful people in British culture". Two of his productions, Les Misérables and The Phantom of the Opera, are the two longest-running musicals in West End history. Mackintosh was knighted in 1996 for services to musical theatre. He is the producer of shows including Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera, Cats, Miss Saigon, Mary Poppins, Oliver!, and Hamilton. At the height of his success in 1990, he was described as being "the most successful, influential and powerful theatrical producer in the world" by the New York Times. Sir Cameron Anthony Mackintosh (born 17 October 1946) is a British theatrical producer and theatre owner notable for his association with many commercially successful musicals.
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