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Cameron Mackintosh

My aunt took me to see ‘Salad Days’ when I was seven. This story of a magic piano that infects everyone who hears it infected me, too. It was a Road to Damascus moment in my life.

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Cameron Mackintosh

I think the worst thing that could have happened to me would have been having a hit at 20. I don’t know what that would have done to me. But instead, I had to scrape a living for years. And my first show, which opened in 1969, lost over £45,000, an absolute fortune then.

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Cameron Mackintosh

I don’t commit to things unless I have my A-team to do it. And I’m not trying to be cocky, but that shows in my productions. They are top notch!

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Cameron Mackintosh

By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.

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Cameron Mackintosh

The commercial and subsidised theatre are intrinsically linked. I wouldn’t have had the career I have had without the opportunities I had through the subsidised sector. However, I do think, in any walk of life, subsidy for the sake of subsidy is not always healthy.

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Cameron Mackintosh

I used to have to beg and borrow £25 to hire some French windows. I started producing in 1967, and I was in debt until 1981. Having a think about whether you can afford ‘this’ or ‘that’ is a good discipline to have, to maximise what you can achieve to the highest standard.

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Cameron Mackintosh

I know I’m in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn’t have it for many decades. I’m always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.

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Cameron Mackintosh

Two of my theatres are 1930s and the other five are by Sprague, the greatest Edwardian architect of the lot. They’ve needed a lot of work doing to them but they were built very well.

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Cameron Mackintosh

I’ve spent more money on my theatres since I bought them than I did buying them.

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Cameron Mackintosh

Darling, when you’re as old as I am, you cherish the very few musicals that have come your way that you know are great classics. You become their guardian.

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Cameron Mackintosh

I’m proud of the fact that I’ve taken a lot of big directors, such as Trevor Nunn and Nick Hytner, who were musical virgins, and introduced them to the form.

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Cameron Mackintosh

I’m privileged to have had some success, but I’ve never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for ‘Oliver!’ which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for ‘Miss Saigon’ and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.

– Cameron Mackintosh

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