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. Cameron Mackintosh Read Quote
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. Cameron Mackintosh Read Quote
My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that’s the reason my batting average is so high, not because I’ve discovered some brilliant formula. Cameron Mackintosh Read Quote
The musical is the one area of the theater that can give you the biggest buzz of all. Cameron Mackintosh Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Cameron Mackintosh Read Quote
