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Cameron Mackintosh first heard the French concept of Les Miserables in 1982. Cameron made a stroke.

But he accepted his unique and constant success, he even overcome his craziest dreams. Next week, with a special assistance gala performance at the Shaftesbury Avenue’s Sondheim Theater, he will celebrate 40 years at West End, the longest production in London, except Mouseetrap’s only exception.

Les Mis – Patti Lupone, Michael Ball, Alfie Boe, Samantha Barks, Matt Lucas, Frances Ruffelle, Carrie Hope Fletcher and Bonnie Langford’s first forty years, including guest artists, will participate in a private final.

As it is and the first accepting it was not a hit at the moment. At least not with critics. A critic called Glums. Orum I remember trying to look for the box office after the first night to confirm my worst fears, Cameron says Cameron. “The line was permanently engaged.

“When I finally passed, they were told that they had never given such a response. The people who made the theater had long queues at the box office, the phones were ringing the hook, and 5,000 tickets were already sold. Indeed, we created the musical of people.”

Moreover, when leaving the theater, he did not get a small mouth for the first night -spectators and Joan Bakewell’s Vox Pop interviews. “I will always be grateful to him, Camer says Cameron. He ran in Barbican for eight weeks. It was sold when he was transferred to the Palace Theater in West End. ”

Whatmore quickly reached Broadway. When the show was opened in New York in March 1987, reservations earned $ 12 million.

Now Cameron has currently prepared a private artist company in Sondheim until November 1st.

Jean Valjean is Played by Killian Donnelly (“One of the Greatest Ever”, in Cameron’s Estimation) Alongside Bradley Jaden as Javert, Katie Hall As Fantine, The Velvet-Voiced Jac Yarrow As Marius With the Elaine Paige of Australian Musical Theater, Marina Prior, AS feeling equally self -serving spouse.

Sung-The Sung is not musically-led words-Les Mis, who later boasts with a series of permanent hit, written by Herbert Kretzmer, the deceased Herbert Kretzmer, a one-time drama critic.

I probably dreamed of bringing him home, empty chairs and a dream on empty tables, when he sang in the Got Talent of England in April 2009 and became the most watched Youtube video of the year with more than 120 million watching.

Michael Ball said empty chairs for the first audition for the show. “Later, director Trevor Nunn asked me if I was interested in a role that didn’t sing, or he remembers me. “I probably walk better because I am a trash in the stage management.

“He laughed, gave me the first of the ‘Treving’ and offered me the role of Marius the next day.

Michael has a unique perspective on the musical, which has played Valjean and Javert at different times. “I recently told Cameron that I thought that I could be the end of my journey with Les Mis. And what can I do? “

Spend any time with Cameron Mackintosh and it is impossible not to get equivalent to childish enthusiasm. He will be 79 years old on October 17, but God, you don’t know: he doesn’t look at his age, nor does he take action. Talk about retirement and he’s glamorous to you. Indeed, Ms. Saigon, one of the other major hits, is busy with a new stage.

His mother Diana (orum I take all my energy from him, and when I was 103 years old, I hope I will inherit that gene ”) and aunt took him to see his musical salad days. When the musical songwriter Julian discovered Slade, he played in the orchestra pit, finally approached him and said how much he loved. Slade then offered to take three back scenes and show them the ropes.

Cameron’s fate was sealed. “In three months, as someone suggested, it was not an impresario, but to be a producer. ‘

First, he had to learn his craft. At the event, it lasted only one year at the Central Speech and Drama School. “I wasn’t interested in Euripides. Hello, I was much sharper in Dolly! So I went to look for a job.”

At the age of 18, he knocked on the stage door of the theater royal in Drury Lane. “A beautiful old boy, the stage manager chasing me on the street and said he had a two -week holiday work for £ 7 a week. I explained that I couldn’t live on it.

“So, it was suggested that I could work cleaner in the dress circle bar. The combined salaries paid rent in two rooms in Half Moon Street, which meant that I could walk to work and could not pay to Muswell Hill.”

Until 1969, the 23 -year -old Mackintosh organized a production of Cole Porter musical at London’s Saville Theater. “This was a big flop, but then I didn’t know what I was doing. At the same time it was the wrong place. He gave me a useful lesson: You should publish your theater as careful as your leading lady.

Richard Richard Mills, who ruled the entire empire of Bernard Delfont, found me crying in the benches bar. He said that the show should be closed only two weeks later. He said: ‘I will tell you that I once told Bernie. And so.

The bank manager then asked if the player was enough to pay his salaries. “When I told him I didn’t do it, he told me he would borrow money in my signature. He was quite a jump of faith, but it was different times.”

The bank manager was right. At the summit of his success in 1990, Cameron was described by the New York Times as “the most successful, effective and powerful theater producer in the world”. In addition to Les Mis, opera, cats, lady Saigon, Mary Poppins, Oliver among his shows! and Hamilton. In 1996, he was knight for musical theater services.

All this made him a very rich man. The Sunday Times Rich list put his personal deck 1 billion £ 1 billion. Shoulder shakes. “Maybe. But that’s why I’m not doing this.”

Ten years ago, it was claimed to have spent £ 50 million to restore their theaters. Cartilage. “Wrong. 300 million £ – above the first place to buy them. The best thing to have money is the freedom it gives to you to do what you want.”

With the property in London, the Farm of 2,000 acres (“I produce cheese; I have 700 cows”) and the Nevis land in West Highlands are very comfortable. His partner is a theater photographer Michael Le Poer Trench, born in Australia. They met at the opening night of Oklahoma production! In 1982, Michael is responsible for all photographs for Cameron’s shows.

Gives a satisfied smile. “You are looking at a man who has more fun than the good and doing what I love. And I plan to continue all my shows after I’m not here anymore. Les Mis, Oliver!, Like Phantom and Hamilton.