I think anyone who has had a little contact with musical theater will know the name Cameron Mackintosh. I'm just starting out in musical theater, so I don't really know much about it. This person is known as the "Czar" of the musical theater industry. The so-called "four famous plays", namely "Les Misérables", "Cats", "Miss Saigon" and "Phantom of the Opera", were all created by him. You can imagine his status and contribution. .
He owns 7 theaters in London's West End: The Prince Edward, Prince of Wales, Gielgud, Queens, Wyndhams, Albery and The Strand. In 1995, his company received the Queen's Commendation for Excellence, and he In the New Year of 1996, I was awarded a knighthood for my contribution to the British Theater.
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Cameron Mackintosh (1946-), British theater producer. Born in Manfield, England, in 1946. McIntosh attended a small public school in Beth. In 1954, when I was 8 years old, I watched Julian Slade's musical and became obsessed with musicals. He was known as Daryl F. McIntosh in school. After leaving school, he studied for another year before becoming assistant stage manager to Drury Lane at the Theater Royal, before moving to London's West End in 1969 to revive the popularity of the musical All Is Gone. After making some mediocre films, Mackintosh finally made his breakthrough in 1976 with Side by Side by Sondheim. In the following years, he successfully revitalized "Oliver", "My Fair Lady" and "Oklahoma". Later he met Andrew Lloyd Webber, and the two created "Cats" together in 1981. The play changed their lives and became a model for musical theater. It overturned the old model of musical theater and provided a simple and lively theatrical approach that did not rely on big-name stars and had catchy songs. In the 1980s, Mackintosh became increasingly famous for his productions of "Song and Dance", "Les Misérables", "The Ghost of the Opera" and "Miss Saigon". The 1990 play "Miss Saigon" proved that McIntosh was a very influential figure.
McIntosh is one of the most acclaimed producers working today, and few producers have such extraordinary talent. In 1993, the American magazine Theater Weekly called him the "Czar of Theater Productions." His total wealth is approximately ￡200 million. He has spread his fortune, estimated at ￡300m, across a number of expensive undertakings. He also financed many small theater projects. But he's not exactly a philanthropist. He reportedly retained rights to the work when it eventually came to commercial use. His reputation lies largely in his shrewd business acumen. In addition to his chivalry, he also won the Observer Award for Outstanding Achievement in 1991 and the prestigious Richard Rodgers Musical Award in 1992. Musicals he has produced around the world. They include six productions of Cats, 20 productions of The Ghost of the Opera, 12 productions of Les Misérables, seven productions of Miss Saigon, and four productions of Five Guys Named Moe. The production of 2 "Song and Dance Ensemble" and so on.
"Les Misérables" was my entry-level drama. . . Therefore, I know relatively more about it, and Lao Mai has made an indelible contribution to the show's current status. . .
In fact, the current long-lasting English version is not the original work. As early as 1980, the original version created by French musical theater composers Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alain Boublil was staged in Paris. This version was called the 1980 "French Concept Version" . It wasn't until 1982 that Peter Fergo, a young director who had been deeply moved by the musical "Les Misérables", gave a record of the play to Mackintosh. Its charismatic music immediately attracted the British producer's attention. attention and interest, and decided to put it on the English stage.
He gathered a group of elite soldiers and carefully revised the French version of "Les Misérables": He invited James Fenton, a critic of poetry and drama, to do the translation work; he persuaded Trevor Nunn to be the director (who also (director of Cats and Starlight Express), but Nunn suggested collaborating with John Carid (they had directed Nicholas Nickleby's adaptation of Dickens' novel); and also invited the famous British lyricist Herbert Kretzmer ) wrote the lyrics for the English version of the play. On the basis of retaining 1/3 of the original music, another 1/3 was rewritten to enhance the character creation, and the remaining 1/3 was to delete and rearrange some of the original tracks. It is said that during this process, the creator invites the audience to watch the demo, and has a dedicated person sitting at the table to record the frequency and degree of changes in the audience's emotions, and then adjust and modify the play based on these data.
On October 8, 1985, with the funding of the Royal Shakespeare Company, the new English version of "Les Misérables" debuted at the Barbican Theater in London and was a great success; subsequently in 1987 Entering Broadway in the United States, it began the process of "sweeping" around the world, and won the Best Musical Award at the Tony Award (the most famous award in the American theater industry, awarded to plays and musicals performed on Broadway that year). It won 8 awards and 3 nominations, including drama, best original score, best script, best director, best actor and actress, and became the number one winner of the year, establishing its extraordinary international influence and status.
Lao Mai seems to have some ideas and activities to promote musicals in China in recent years. I am not particularly clear about the specific situation. Guidu Aiyinke Forum: / There should be some information you want.
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