![]() ![]() He was recently President of the Lord’s Taverners. He has two Tony nominations, three Monte Carlo Prizes, a Prix Italia, an Honorary Doctorate and an O.B.E. Its students now appear all over the country, including the Royal Opera House, the Notting Hill Carnival and the Glastonbury Festival. In 1998, Richard founded the Orpheus Centre, which provides opportunities for disabled people to take part in the performing arts. The year 2000 saw the first of several farewell tours, and an appearance together at the Royal Variety Performance. They have toured the UK, Australia, Hong Kong, Gibraltar, Rome and Stockholm. Nothing happened until 1984, when the Lord’s Taverners brought them together for what has become an enduring part-time double act. Standing star-struck in the wings watching Ethel Merman, they said, ‘We really ought to do something together’. ![]() In 1982, Richard and Peter Skellern appeared in the Royal Variety Performance. He has presented the Schools Proms since 1988, and passed his 200th appearance on Countdown. Schools perform his musicals Bodywork and Brilliant the Dinosaur and a new work, Exit Allan, was performed at the International Festival of Musicals at Cardiff in 2002. Cats and Starlight Express were the longest and second-longest running shows in British theatre history. In the 1980s he was involved in the writing of Cats, Starlight Express and The Phantom of the Opera, which continue to play all over the world. #PHANTOM OF THE OPERA COSTUME YOUTH MEDIUM SERIES#Singing his songs in pubs and clubs led to appearances on the Today programme in the 1960s, and thence to Nationwide and That’s Life, as well as several series of his own. He was brought up in Liverpool, and progressed through St Agnes Church Choir and the Cavern Club to the Cambridge Footlights. He writes songs, runs the Orpheus Trust and is involved in music education – most recently the Stilgoe Family Concerts (Royal Festival Hall) and the National Foundation for Youth Music. Richard Stilgoe lives in Surrey (where he was born) and has five children and two grandchildren. His bestselling autobiography Unmasked was published by HarperCollins in March 2018. He is passionate about the importance of music in education and the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation has become one of Britain’s leading charities supporting the arts and music. He was knighted by Her Majesty The Queen in 1992 and created a life peer in 1997. He owns seven London theatres including the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and the London Palladium. His awards, both as composer and producer, include seven Tonys, the 2018 Special Tony for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, seven Oliviers, a Golden Globe, an Oscar, the Praemium Imperiale, the Richard Rodgers Award for Excellence in Musical Theatre, the Kennedy Center Honor and a Grammy for Best Contemporary Classical Composition for Requiem which contains one of his best-known compositions, “Pie Jesu.” His production of School of Rock is the first British musical to have world premiered on Broadway. Music Theatre International, the world’s largest owner of secondary rights of many of the greatest musicals ever written, is now one of Cameron’s companies.Ĭomposer of some of the world’s best-known musicals including Cats, Evita, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Phantom of the Opera and Sunset Boulevard. Cameron was knighted in 1996 recently was the first British producer to be elected to the Theater Hall of Fame and is the recipient of the 2017 Stephen Sondheim Award. ![]() He owns eight London theatres including the Victoria Palace which, after a spectacular refurbishment, is now home to the award-winning musical Hamilton, co-produced with Jeffrey Seller. In 2013, in conjunction with Working Title Films and Universal, Cameron produced the Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA award-winning film of Les Misérables. ![]() Cameron enjoys producing new versions of classic musicals such as Oliver!, My Fair Lady, Oklahoma!, Carousel, Follies and most recently, his newly rewritten version of Half A Sixpence. while his co-production with Disney of Mary Poppins returns to London’s West End in 2019. His acclaimed new production of Miss Saigon is now touring North America and the U.K. Cameron Mackintosh has produced the three longest-running musicals in history: Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera and CATS. ![]()
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