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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

Topics: Comfortable Day Ensure Forgotten Gallery Had Like Make Miss Never Oliver Possibly Privileged Queue Seat Some Success Them Tickets Which Why I Can

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I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.

~Cameron Mackintosh

Topics: Almost Architecture Love Much Musicals I Love

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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.

~Cameron Mackintosh

Topics: About Achieve Afford Beg Borrow Debt Discipline French Good Having Highest Hire Producing Some Standard Started Think Until Used Whether Windows You

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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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Topics: Always Any Career Commercial Had Healthy However Life Linked Opportunities Sake Sector Theatre Think Through Walk Without

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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

Topics: Absolute Been Could Done First Fortune Had Happened Having Hit Instead Know Living Lost Me Opened Over Scrape Show Then Thing Think Which Worst Worst Thing Would Years I Think

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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

Topics: Aunt Days Everyone Hears Infected Life Magic Me Moment My Life Piano Road Salad See Seven Story Too Took Who

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Businessman

Born: October 17th, 1946

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