Cameron Mackintosh on The Making of Cats | Backstage at Cats The Musical

[@YesYouAreAbsolutelyCorrect]

What's amazing about this story is the industry's salesmen's absolute lack of trust and belief in talent and originality. The team that was assembled to make this show is so overwhelmingly strong, yet nobody lended a buck for this new type of musical. 40 years after I still think this is the ultimate stage show. Untopped and unparalleled.

[@amadeyito]

I hope to one day see it live after things go back to normal after the pandemic.

[@thegoldenraspberry1018]

Well, who doesn't?

[@munkustrapjr2574]

Me too!

[@Cruiserfrank]

Don't EVER go to a stage production of CATS thinking it will be like the video. Go into it thinking that it will be it's own production and think that it will be the best thing you ever saw in your life. Then it will be. I saw it on stage in 1991 in London. Then I saw the video and have watched it many times. I loved each for it's own sake. On October 8, 2022 I took my wife to see it for her first time at the Pantages Theater in Hollywood. The current young ensemble is wonderful, and put their hearts into it, as all great casts do. I did think that young Tayler Harris was "way too young to play Grizabella!" Then she started to sing, and I started to cry. So did my wife. She was wonderful, as was the whole production. So see it for it's own sake, and expect it to be great, and then it will be.

[@hannahboldewijn]

It’s beautiful to hear how much faith they had in this!

[@laurad3497]

It’s timeless and will live on for generations 💐 My 7 & 10 year old daughters are in love with it as well

[@vickihshallenberger3644]

TWO MORE DAYS! WOOOOO YAY!

[@fionaerleigh]

Brilliant interview and story

[@ewakolodziejczyk3301]

0:37 This is Andrew singing, right? He has a really nice voice 🤩

[@jimpolk]

Excellent conversation. Great backstories thanks

[@phillipecook3227]

Incredible story. Listening to him what becomes clear is just how close it came to never seeing the light of day but for his and ALW's dogged belief - to have had so many refusals and hurdles placed in their.way right up to the leading actress being inacapitated days before the first performance might have defeated lesser men. I hope those individuals and organisations who turned them down flat were kicking themselves when they saw the once in a lifetime artistic and commercial phenomenon they allowed to slip through their fingers.

[@williamfairchild7439]

I do like Cameron Mackintosh, he's my favourite Theatre producer and I have seen from him in London over the years Oliver, The Phantom of the Opera, Cats, Miss Saigon, Les Misérables, Half a Sixpence, Les Misérables The Staged Concert and Mary Poppins

[@CrystalEyes83]

Same here 🙌🏻

[@williamfairchild7439]

@@CrystalEyes83 I'm glad you like Cameron as well

[@chetofarfan6120]

Amazing!

[@GalaxyJazzGirl]

I am hoping they can come back to the stage once everyone has been vaccinated! :)

[@littlesongbird1]

I never knew the show opened in Vienna before Broadway! Cool!

[@DreamBelief]

People don't realise how difficult a song Memory is to sing. It's not particularly high or low so they think it's not so tough. Try singing it though. We sang it in choir in year 7 (AISM pride!). It goes between soft and hesitant and loud and forceful constantly. Getting the emotion across is also extremely difficult. Just try singing it and see

[@barbarahourigan8462]

❤️

[@sameaston9587]

Hey Cameron, cut the dancers in Cats in half and call it 'making art'. I dare ya!

[@obiwankenobi9141]

Does he have a les mis lantern? If he does please buy that for me. I need that!

[@siewbergeron8014]

Cats The Broadway Musical

[@tinasattler1]

I met him

[@williamfairchild7439]

I saw him as well at the final evening performance of Half a Sixpence at the Noel Coward Theatre in London on Saturday 2nd September 2017

[@obiwankenobi9141]

Also I saw in the background a les miserables lantern, which as a giant Les mis nerd I need that in my room, so Cameron, if you find this comment, I’ll give you all my life savings as long as you give me that lantern.

[@НейзиФанат-е5з]

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[@brianaustin5467]

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[@НейзиФанат-е5з]

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[@brianaustin5467]

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[@adojond2875]

Хорошо

[@THEtomh]

Seems pretty insensitive doesn't it considering his recent tone-deaf response with phantom?

[@Elnont]

What happened?

[@THEtomh]

@@Elnont Cameron Mackintosh fired a bunch of musicians from Phantom of The Opera, some who had been there for over 10 years, and basically without any covid reasons as to why. This caused a bit of an uproar, and he basically just responded with "lmao not my problem". Both him and ALW are true dickheads.

[@brianaustin5467]

​@@THEtomh Not only that, they dropped a performer who had beem with POTO for 30 years. These people were classed as freelance so were not entitled to furlough, redudancy or severance payments. Mackintosh then made a crass comment about why people should wish to stay in the same production all their careers. It is called loyalty and yet they received a scant amount in return. Never mind, as long as he and ALW have their millions to fall back on, which have been acquired by the efforts of people like those they have discarded. Yet the sycophancy in many comments here continues.

[@THEtomh]

@@brianaustin5467 Exactly this. The thing is, they will continue to get away with it because they can. Phantom of The Opera will continue to make millions because it's that show. Meanwhile, ALW preaches about reopening theatre again, and then proceeds to pour all of his attention into getting his shows open, not giving two shits about what anyone else in the West end is doing. My god this industry is so fucking toxic to the core.

[@nondescript2892]

He's all for poor people standing up for their rights as long as it's singing and dancing 8 shows a week...and of course as long as they don't unionise....

[@andkyrmar]

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, LONDON, IS DEAD.