Sir Cameron Anthony Mackintosh was born on 17 October 1946 and is a British theatrical producer and theatre owner notable for his association with many commercially successful musicals.
27 Facts About Cameron Mackintosh
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Cameron Mackintosh was born in Enfield, London, the son of Diana Gladys, a production secretary, and Ian Robert Cameron Mackintosh, a timber merchant and jazz trumpeter.
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Cameron Mackintosh's father was Scottish, and his mother who was a native of Malta, was of Maltese and French descent.
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Cameron Mackintosh was raised in his mother's Roman Catholic faith and educated at Prior Park College in Bath.
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Cameron Mackintosh 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.
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Cameron 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.
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Cameron Mackintosh began producing his own small tours before becoming a London-based producer in the 1970s.
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Cameron Mackintosh produced Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alain Boublil's next musical Miss Saigon, which opened at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in the West End in September 1989.
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Cameron Mackintosh has produced several other successful musicals, including Five Guys Named Moe and a revised London production of Stephen Sondheim's Follies in 1987.
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In 1995, Cameron Mackintosh produced the 10th anniversary concert of Les Miserables in London.
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Cameron Mackintosh produced the stage adaptation of John Updike's The Witches of Eastwick which despite some positive reviews and a run of over 15 months, failed to replicate the worldwide success of his previous blockbusters.
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Cameron Mackintosh became a co-owner of the theatrical licensing company Music Theatre International in 1990.
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Cameron Mackintosh started the theatre group Delfont Mackintosh Theatres in 1991.
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Cameron Mackintosh co-produced the London transfer of Avenue Q, which opened in the West End at the Noel Coward Theatre on 1 June 2006.
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Cameron Mackintosh has voiced interest in producing a Broadway revival of Barnum with American actor Neil Patrick Harris in the title role.
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On 27 January 2014, Cameron Mackintosh was the first British producer to be inducted into Broadway's American Theater Hall of Fame.
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On 3 May 2014, Cameron Mackintosh relaunched Miss Saigon at the Prince Edward Theatre in London, celebrating 25 years since its first launch.
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On 6 December 2017 Cameron Mackintosh began previews of Lin-Manuel Miranda's Broadway hit musical Hamilton in London.
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Cameron Mackintosh is notable as a producer for his transformation of the musical into a global and highly profitable brand; he was the first theatrical producer to recognise that both touring productions and worldwide productions were potentially highly lucrative markets which could collectively, match and even surpass the revenues generated from New York and London productions.
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Cameron Mackintosh has had considerable success in bringing legitimate theatre directors and technicians to the world of musical theatre.
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Cameron Mackintosh was knighted during the 1996 New Year Honours for services to musical theatre.
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Cameron Mackintosh's partner is Australian-born theatre photographer Michael Le Poer Trench.
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In 2006, Cameron Mackintosh was listed 4th on The Independent on Sundays Pink List, a list of the most influential "out-and-proud" gay men and women.
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Cameron Mackintosh topped The Stage 100 list in 2007 for the first time since 2000.
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Cameron Mackintosh is a patron of The Food Chain, a London-based HIV charity.
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In 1994, Cameron Mackintosh bought the Nevis Estate, on North Morar, to the east of Mallaig in the West Highlands of Scotland, covering around 14,000 acres.
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Cameron Mackintosh has since been involved in a long-running dispute with a tenant crofter, over the land use on the estate.