Cast & Creative

Music by

CLAUDE-MICHEL SCHÖNBERG

Born in 1944 to Hungarian parents, Claude-Michel Schönberg began his career in France as a singer, writer and producer of pop songs. In collaboration with Alain Boublil, he is the book co-writer and the composer of La Révolution Française, Les Misérables, Miss Saigon, Martin Guerre and The Pirate Queen. In 2008, his musical Marguerite, in collaboration with Alain Boublil, Michel Legrand and Herbert Kretzmer, opened at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in London. Schönberg has supervised overseas productions and co-produced several international cast albums of his shows. In 2001, he composed his first ballet score, Wuthering Heights, which was created by the Northern Ballet in 2002. His ballet Cleopatra, which opened in 2011, was his second collaboration with David Nixon and his seventh complete score. In 2012, Schönberg co-wrote the screenplay and reconceived the music for the Les Misérables musical movie. His shows have won many awards over the years, most recently the WhatsOnStage audience awards for Best West End Show and Best Musical Revival for the London production of Miss Saigon. Golden Globe-winner, Oscar® nominee and Grammy® award-winner for his outstanding contribution to the creative community, Schönberg and Alain Boublil were honoured at a New York Pops gala concert in Carnegie Hall celebrating their 40-year collaboration. Schönberg was appointed Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre at St Catherine’s College, Oxford University, and is now an Emeritus Fellow. He is an Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music where he is a guest Professor. Schönberg married the English ballerina, Charlotte Talbot, in 2003. He is the father of one son and two daughters.

Lyrics by

RICHARD MALTBY, JR & ALAIN BOUBLIL

RICHARD MALTBY, JR

Misbehavin’ (1978 – Tony, New York Drama Critics’ Circle, Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk awards, and also Tony Award for Best Director) and Fosse (1999 – Tony, Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk awards), as well as Ring of Fire (2006). With composer David Shire: director/lyricist: Baby (1983 – seven Tony nominations); lyricist: Big (1996 Tony nomination for Best Score). With Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg: co-lyricist: Miss Saigon (Evening Standard Award, London – 1990; Tony nomination for Best Score – 1991); co-lyricist: The Pirate Queen (2007). Director: The Story of My Life (2009). Director/co-lyricist: Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Song and Dance (1986 Tony Award for star Bernadette Peters). Off-Broadway: director/lyricist: Starting Here, Starting Now (1977 – Grammy® nomination) and Closer Than Ever (1989 – two Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Musical and Best Score, and also off-Broadway Alliance Award for Best Musical Revival in 2013 – London Jermyn Street Theatre in 2014), both written with composer David Shire. Director: Just Jim Dale (Roundabout Theatre in 2014, and also Vaudeville Theatre, London, in 2015). Regional: lyricist/conceiver: Take Flight (Menier Chocolate Factory, London, in 2010 and McCarter Theatre in 2012); book and lyrics: Waterfall (Pasadena Playhouse and Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre in 2015); director: Mask (2008 – Pasadena Playhouse); director: The 60s Project (2006 – Goodspeed) and director/co-author: Have You Met Miss Jones, starring Shirley Jones (New Theatre, Kansas City, in 2016). Currently: lyricist: new musical Sousatzkaopened in March 2017 in Toronto. Film: screenplay: Miss Potter (2007 – Christopher Award for Best Screenplay). Richard contributes cryptic crossword puzzles to Harper’s Magazine. He is the son of a well-known orchestra leader and has five children: Nicholas, David, Jordan, Emily and Charlotte  

Alain Boublil

Alain Boublil conceived the musicals La Révolution Française (the first-ever staged French rock opera) and Les Misérables. He is the author of the librettos and original lyrics for those works as well as for Miss Saigon, Martin Guerre and The Pirate Queen, all in collaboration with lifelong creative partner, composer Claude-Michel Schönberg. He also co-produced with Claude-Michel the original cast albums of all his shows. He co-wrote the screenplay of the Golden Globe-winning and Oscar®-nominated film Les Misérables. He is the author/lyricist of Abbacadabra, a fairytale musical including ABBA classic songs, of the stage adaptation of the Demy/Legrand film Les Demoiselles de Rochefort, as well as author of the musical play Manhattan Parisienne, and the play The Diary of Adam and Eve, which Alain is rewriting as a musical, scored by Maxime Pretends. His many awards include two Tony® Awards, two Grammy® Awards, two Victoire de la Musique and two Molière Awards for Les Misérables (1991 and 2025) as well as an Evening Standard Drama Award for Miss Saigon, an Olivier Award for Martin Guerre and a New York Chapter Honors Grammy for his outstanding contribution to the creative community. He received a Best Song Oscar nomination for ‘Suddenly’ from the movie version of Les Misérables. The recreation of Les Misérables in Paris at the end of 2024, in a new French production, created the opportunity for Alain to rewrite and fine-tune parts of the original French lyrics, which he had not looked into for 30 years. Alain and Claude-Michel, in recognition of this new French production, completed a book of reminiscences of their amazing 50-year collaboration and friendship, published in October 2024 in France and entitled J’avais rêvé… Alain devised the Do You Hear the People Sing? concerts, a symphonic promenade through Boublil and Schönberg musical history and creative process, which regularly plays at major venues around the world, including Carnegie Hall as honorees of the New York Pops 33rd Birthday Gala and, most recently, for an unforgettable starry night at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. He is long married to singer, actress and director Marie Zamora, the Paris Cosette of 1991, and is the father of four sons. Alain was nominated on 14 July 2024 to the Légion d’Honneur in France in recognition of his services to the arts in the world.

Adapted from the Original French text by

ALAIN BOUBLIL

Alain Boublil conceived the musicals La Révolution Française (the first-ever staged French rock opera) and Les Misérables. He is the author of the librettos and original lyrics for those works as well as for Miss Saigon, Martin Guerre and The Pirate Queen, all in collaboration with lifelong creative partner, composer Claude-Michel Schönberg. He also co-produced with Claude-Michel the original cast albums of all his shows. He co-wrote the screenplay of the Golden Globe-winning and Oscar®-nominated film Les Misérables. He is the author/lyricist of Abbacadabra, a fairytale musical including ABBA classic songs, of the stage adaptation of the Demy/Legrand film Les Demoiselles de Rochefort, as well as author of the musical play Manhattan Parisienne, and the play The Diary of Adam and Eve, which Alain is rewriting as a musical, scored by Maxime Pretends. His many awards include two Tony® Awards, two Grammy® Awards, two Victoire de la Musique and two Molière Awards for Les Misérables (1991 and 2025) as well as an Evening Standard Drama Award for Miss Saigon, an Olivier Award for Martin Guerre and a New York Chapter Honors Grammy for his outstanding contribution to the creative community. He received a Best Song Oscar nomination for ‘Suddenly’ from the movie version of Les Misérables. The recreation of Les Misérables in Paris at the end of 2024, in a new French production, created the opportunity for Alain to rewrite and fine-tune parts of the original French lyrics, which he had not looked into for 30 years. Alain and Claude-Michel, in recognition of this new French production, completed a book of reminiscences of their amazing 50-year collaboration and friendship, published in October 2024 in France and entitled J’avais rêvé… Alain devised the Do You Hear the People Sing? concerts, a symphonic promenade through Boublil and Schönberg musical history and creative process, which regularly plays at major venues around the world, including Carnegie Hall as honorees of the New York Pops 33rd Birthday Gala and, most recently, for an unforgettable starry night at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. He is long married to singer, actress and director Marie Zamora, the Paris Cosette of 1991, and is the father of four sons. Alain was nominated on 14 July 2024 to the Légion d’Honneur in France in recognition of his services to the arts in the world.

Additional Lyrics by

MICHAEL MAHLER

Michael Mahler is the Chicago-based composer/lyricist of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, October Sky, Hero, Something in the Game, Painted Alice and others. He served as premier English lyricist for Boublil and Schönberg’s La Révolution Française and contributed lyrics to Russell Watson’s album Only One Man. Projects in development include: Secret of My Success and Gravediggers’ Hamlet. Michaelmahler.com

Set and Costume Designer by

Andrew D. Edwards

Theatre Includes: Mary Poppins (Thunerseespiele, Switzerland); Something Rotten, Natasha, Pierre And The Great Comet Of 1812 and Wonderland (Landestheater Linz Theatre, Austria); Romeo Und Julia (Co-Director And Designer – Theater Des Westerns, Berlin); Anastasia (Co-Director & Designer – Landestheater Linz); La Puce À L’Oreille and La Maison De Bernada Alba (Comédie-Française, Paris); Après La Pluie (Théâtre Du Vieux-Colombier, Paris); Ku’damm56 and Romeo Julia (Theater Des Westens, Berlin); Twelfth Night, The Taming Of The Shrew, The Merchant Of Venice, As You Like It, Pericles and Much Ado About Nothing (Globe Theatre/International Tours); Dry Powder, Labyrinth and Donny’s Brain (Hampstead Theatre); Tartuffe (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Plaques And Tangles and Who Cares (Royal Court); Fack Ju Göhte (Werk 7, Munich, Stage Entertainment); Black Comedy (Chichester Minerva Theatre); Blue Remembered Hills, Playhouse Creatures and Fred’s Diner (Chichester Festival Theatre & Theatre On The Fly); Impossible (West End & International Tour); The Life and Times of Fanny Hill (Bristol Old Vic); Les Parents Terribles (Donmar Season at Trafalgar Studios); Backbeat (West End, Toronto & Los Angeles); Jesus Christ Superstar (Madrid & European Tour). Opera Includes: Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg (Bayreuth Festival); The Barber Of Seville (Santa Fe Opera); Madame Favart (Opera Comique, Paris); Cenerentola (Grange Festival); Cunning Little Vixen and La Bohéme (Opera Holland Park).

Lighting Designer by

Bruno Poet

Bruno Poet is a highly acclaimed lighting designer with an extensive career spanning opera, theatre, dance, and live music. He has received three Knight of Illumination Awards for his work on Sigur Rós’ 2013 World Tour, Björk’s Cornucopia, and Frankenstein at the National Theatre, where he also won the Olivier Award for Best Lighting Design. Theatre Includes: The Seagull (Barbican), Richard II (Bridge Theatre), The Devil Wears Prada (West End/Plymouth), Macbeth (West End/Donmar Warehouse), Waiting for Godot (West End), Miss Saigon (West End/Broadway/Japan/European Tour/US Tour/Australia Tour), TINA: The Tina Turner Musical (Tony Award Nomination, West End/Broadway/International Tours), The Witches, Frankenstein, London Road, Light Shining in Buckinghamshire (National Theatre), 42 Balloons (Lowry), Uncle Vanya (West End), From Here to Eternity (West End), Bad Cinderella (Broadway), The Convert (Young Vic). Opera Includes: The Hours (Met Opera), Amadeus (Royal Danish Opera), Salome (Houston Grand Opera), Don Giovanni (Royal Opera House/LA Opera/Houston Opera), Akhnaten (ENO/LA Opera/Met Opera), Trovatore (Monte Carlo/Madrid/Copenhagen/LA Opera), Oklahoma (Grange Park Opera), Otello (Royal Opera House), Carmen (Bregenz), Alcina (Glyndebourne). Other Work Includes: Alicia Keys: Keys to the Summer (US Arena Tour), Pet Shop Boys Dreamworld Tour, Sigur Rós (all world tours since 2012), Gary Barlow: A Different Stage (West End/UK Tour), Björk Cornucopia (International Tour), Billie Eilish Live (Steve Jobs Theatre), 49th, 50th, 51st, 52nd, and 53rd UAE National Day celebrations.

Sound Design by

Adam Fisher

Olivier Award Winning Sound Designer Selected Designs Include: Kinky Boots (UK Tour); Oliver! (Gielgud & Chichester Festival Theatre); Sunset Boulevard (Savoy & Broadway); Here & Now (Birmingham Alex); My Fair Lady (Curve Leicester); The Lord of the Rings (International); Your Lie In April (Harold Pinter); Kiss Me Kate (Barbican); Bhangra Nation (TheREP); Evita (Curve Leicester); The Wizard of Oz (London Palladium, Curve Leicester & UK Tour); Billy Elliot (Curve Leicester); Lizzie The Musical (Hope Mill & UK Tour); The Last Five Years (Garrick & Southwark Playhouse); The Phantom of the Opera (International); Our Man in Havana (Watermill Theatre); Into the Woods (Theatre Royal Bath); Cinderella (Hope Mill); The View Upstairs (Soho Theatre); Soho Cinders (Soho Theatre). Adam produced and mixed the cast recordings of After You, Henrietta the Musical, and Sunset Blvd: The Album.

Projection Design by

George Reeve

George is a UK-based video and projection designer whose work can be seen across the UK and internationally. Video Design Credits Include: Maybe Happy Ending (Broadway), Oliver! (Chichester Festival Theatre and West End), Hercules, Tarzan (Hamburg/Disney), Stephen Sondheim Old Friends (West End, LA, Broadway), Sunset Boulevard (Opera Australia), In Dreams (Leeds Playhouse/Toronto), The Lord Of The Rings (Chicago Shakespeare, Watermill, Auckland), Hey Duggee – The Live Theatre Show (Royal Festival Hall and UK Tour), My Son’s A Queer (But What Can You Do?) (Turbine Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe, West End), The Great British Bake Off Musical (Noel Coward Theatre), Notes From a Small Island (Watermill Theatre), Rogers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Rent, The Wiz, and Hushabye Mountain (Hope Mill Theatre), Hairspray, Dawn French Is A Huge Tw*t!, Sandi Toksvig – Next Slide Please, The Sound of Music, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun & WANNABE (UK Tours), SIX (London & Broadway), Gypsy (Alexandra Palace), A Christmas Carol (Dominion Theatre), But I’m A Cheerleader (Turbine Theatre), The Pleasure Garden, Dick Whittington, and Tommy On Top (Above The Stag), Avalanche (Bloom Theatre), The Wind in the Willows (UK and UAE Tour), Cinderella in Concert (Cadogan Hall), Welcome Aboard (Viking Cruises), Musicals In Concert (Palladium, Stuttgart).

Original Orchestrations by

WILLIAM DAVID BROHN

Musicals orchestrated in the West End include: Betty Blue Eyes, Wicked, Mary Poppins, Miss Saigon (and UK Tour), South Pacific, My Fair Lady, Show Boat (and Australia), Oliver! and Carousel. William was also the orchestrator for Barnum at Chichester Festival Theatre.

On Broadway: the Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, Ragtime, Mary Poppins (and US Tour), Curtains (and Los Angeles), Wicked (and Los Angeles and San Francisco), The Secret Garden, Dessa Rose (off-Broadway), Oklahoma!, Sweet Smell of Success, Minnelli on Minnelli, High Society, Show Boat, Carousel, The Red Shoes, Crazy For You, Miss Saigon, Jerome Robbins’ Broadway, The Boys in Autumn, The Wind in the Willows, The Three Musketeers, Marilyn, Brigadoon, King of Hearts, Timbuktu!, Rockabye Hamlet and Rodgers & Hart.

In the ballet, concert and symphonic realms, he enjoyed collaborations with singers Plácido Domingo and Marilyn Horne; choreographers Agnes de Mille, Kenneth MacMillan, Susan Stroman and Matthew Bourne; the violinist Joshua Bell, and conductors André Previn and John Williams.

New Orchestrations by

STEPHEN METCALFE

Stephen Metcalfe is a composer, orchestrator and record producer for film and theatre. He is a two-time Grammy® Award nominee.

As record producer: Oliver! (2008 and 2024 London Cast Albums), Les Misérables (2010 Cast Album, 25th Anniversary Concert film, 2019 Concert Cast Album and film), Betty Blue Eyes (Original Cast Album), Half a Sixpence (Original Cast Album), Miss Saigon (2014 London Cast Album, 25th Anniversary film), Mary Poppins (2010 Australian Cast Album, 2020 London Cast Album) and Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends (Original Cast Album).

Other productions include: Les Misérables (London, New York, UK and US Tours), Miss Saigon (London, New York, UK and US Tours), The Witches of Eastwick (London and UK Tour), My Fair Lady (London, UK and US Tours), Avenue Q (London), Mary Poppins (London, New York, UK and US Tours), Oliver! (London, Chichester Festival Theatre and UK Tour), Betty Blue Eyes (London), Barnum (Chichester Festival Theatre and UK Tour), Half a Sixpence (Chichester Festival Theatre and London), Hamilton (London) and Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends (London, Los Angeles and New York).

Stephen orchestrated and produced the double-platinum award-winning soundtrack albums for the Universal Pictures film of Les Misérables.

Musical Supervision by

Graham Hurman

Graham is a Musical Supervisor for Cameron Mackintosh Ltd. He is currently the Musical Supervisor for Oliver! in London, Starlight Express (30th Anniversary Production) in Bochum, Germany, and CATS (East Asia tour). Previous Musical Supervisor Credits Include: Oliver! (Chichester Festival Theatre, also conductor), Mary Poppins (London (also conductor) and Tokyo, Japan), Les Misérables (South Korea, Holland and Belgian Tour, UK Tour, and Mexico), Oliver! (Tokyo, Japan), Half A Sixpence (Chichester Festival and Noel Coward Theatre, London (also conductor), Stephen Ward (Sydmonton Festival and Aldwych Theatre, London (also conductor), The Wizard Of Oz (also vocal and dance arrangements, Toronto and North American Tour), CATS (South Korea, UK & International Tour, Vienna, London Palladium (also conductor), Paris (also conductor), and UK Tour). Graham is also the orchestral arranger for all aforementioned CATS productions, the recent Broadway revival, Japanese & Australian productions, and the North American touring production. Musical Director & Conductor Credits Include: Les Misérables (UK Tour), The Wizard of Oz (London Palladium), Oliver! (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane), Les Misérables (Queens Theatre, London), Starlight Express (Germany & 1st National UK Tour), CATS (25th Anniversary UK Tour and Hamburg, Germany (Assistant Musical Director). Other Theatre Credits Include: Starlight Express (North American Tour (Music Associate), Saturday Night Fever (North American Tour and Las Vegas (Music Associate), Wayward Women – Honor Blackman’s One-Woman Show (Musical Director & Pianist), Starlight Express (2nd National UK Tour and the 2002 and 2008 German productions (Music Associate). Recordings: I Am Me (from Starlight Express) – Original 2023 Recording (Musical Supervisor), CATS – Original 2021 Vienna Cast Recording (Musical Supervisor & Orchestral Arranger), Mary Poppins – Original 2020 London Cast Recording (Musical Supervisor & Conductor), Memory (from CATS) – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack performed by Jennifer Hudson (Conductor), CATS – Original 2019 Japanese Cast Recording (Orchestral Arranger), Half A Sixpence – Original 2016 London Cast Recording (Musical Supervisor & Conductor), Memory (from CATS) – performed by Nicole Scherzinger (Musical Supervisor & Conductor), Stephen Ward – Original 2013 London Cast Recording (Musical Supervisor & Conductor), The Wizard Of Oz – Original 2011 London Cast Recording (Musical Director & Conductor), Oliver! – Original 2009 London Cast Recording (Musical Director & Conductor), Starlight Express – 2002 German Cast Recording (Musical Director & Conductor), Love Never Dies – DVD additional orchestral sessions (Conductor). TV and Radio Credits Include: Cameron Mackintosh: The First 50 Years (Sky Arts), Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway (ITV), Kipps (Sky Arts), The Royal Variety Show (BBC & ITV), The Olivier Awards (BBC & ITV), Children In Need (BBC), The One Show (BBC), I Dreamed A Dream: The Susan Boyle Story (ITV), This Morning (ITV), The Alan Titchmarsh Show (ITV), The Passions of Girls Aloud (ITV), The Graham Norton Show, Elaine Paige on Sunday, and Wogan (BBC Radio 2). Awards: BritishTheatre.com Best Musical Director (2014).

Choreography by

CHRISSIE CARTWRIGHT & CARRIE-ANNE INGROUILLE

Chrissie Cartwright

Co-Choreographer

Chrissie appeared in the original West End casts of Billy, Irene, Evita, Barnum, and Blondel and performed in variety at the London Palladium and Victoria Palace. Television Includes: The One and Only Phyllis Dixey, There’s Something Wrong in Paradise, The Stanley Baxter Show, The Morecambe and Wise Show, The Good Old Days. Film Includes: The Great Muppet Caper, Lassiter, Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again. Chrissie staged and choreographed the original West End productions of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Sherlock Holmes the Musical, and the London premiere of Mack and Mabel. Choreography Credits Include: The Entertainer, Devil’s Virtuoso, Annie, The Card, On the Twentieth Century, Witches of Eastwick, and the musical staging for the Showbizpops Orchestra’s concert tour of The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber. Television Choreography Includes: Kiss Me Kate, Alas Smith and Jones, Hit Dancing. Associate Director and Choreographer Credits Include: the London, New York, and Australian productions of Five Guys Named Moe, worldwide productions of CATS, and as associate choreographer, the London and Broadway productions of The Phantom of the Opera. She was associate to Gillian Lynne on The Likes of Us, Brick by Bricusse, and Dear World, was children’s director on Mary Poppins, and the resident director on CATS, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Sister Act, and The Wizard of Oz. Chrissie directed To Gillie with Love at the Gillian Lynne Theatre and was movement director on The Private Ear and The Public Eye and Birdsong for the Original Theatre Company.

Carrie-Anne Ingrouille

Co-Choreographer

Carrie-Anne Ingrouille is currently represented in the West End and on Broadway with her critically acclaimed choreography for SIX the Musical, playing at the Vaudeville Theatre, London, and the Lena Horne Theatre, New York. For her work on the show, Carrie has received a Tony and Olivier Award Nomination for Best Theatre Choreographer, as well as WhatsOnStage, OFFIE, and The Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award nominations for Best Choreography. Notable Choreography and Movement Direction Credits Include: The Parent Agency (Chester Storyhouse), The Importance of Being Earnest (National Theatre), Dear Evan Hansen (Nottingham Playhouse/UK Tour), Sisters of Mersey (Liverpool’s Royal Court), The Merry Widow (Glyndebourne Opera), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Lido2, Paris), Rock Follies (Chichester Festival Theatre), Village Idiot (Theatre Royal Stratford East, Nottingham Playhouse & Ramps on the Moon), The Good Person of Szechwan (Sheffield Crucible, Lyric Hammersmith & ETT), Monsoon Wedding – The Musical (St. Ann’s Warehouse, New York), Antigone (Regents Park Open Air Theatre), Our Generation (National Theatre & Chichester Festival Theatre), Wonderful Town (Opera Holland Park), This is My Family (Chichester Festival Theatre), The Catherine Tate Show Live (UK Tour), Jeeves & Wooster in Perfect Nonsense (Duke of York’s Theatre), The Suicide (National Theatre), The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party (Royal Opera House, The Roundhouse). Carrie is the U.K. Associate Choreographer for the West End and touring productions of Hamilton.  

Directed by

Jean-Pierre van der Spuy

Jean-Pierre was born in South Africa and settled in the UK to train at the Guildford School of Acting. Directing Credits: Oliver! (Chichester Festival Theatre/Gielgud Theatre – co-director with Sir Matthew Bourne), Les Misérables – The Arena Spectacular (World Tour), Les Misérables – The Staged Concert (Gielgud and Sondheim Theatres/DVD & Digital Release), Oliver! (Orb Theatre, Tokyo/Osaka), Porgy and Bess (Grange Park Opera), The Dreamers (Abbey Road Studios), Oliver! (Grange Park Opera), Barnum (UK Tour). Associate Director Credits: Miss Saigon (Prince Edward Theatre/UK & International Tour/Australia and Asia Tours/Japan/Austria), Mary Poppins (Prince Edward Theatre & Japan), Half A Sixpence (Noel Coward Theatre), The Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty’s Theatre & Royal Albert Hall 25th Anniversary).

Production Overseen and Originally Produced on the World Stage by

CAMERON MACKINTOSH

Cameron Mackintosh has been working in the theatre for almost 60 years and is the producer of several of the most legendary musicals of all time: Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera and Cats, three of the world’s longest running, alongside the perennial Miss Saigon, Mary Poppins (co-produced with Disney), Little Shop of Horrors, and Hamilton in the UK, which he co-produces with Jeffrey Seller. With Stephen Sondheim, Cameron has created three musical revues: Side by Side by Sondheim, Putting it Together and most recently the hugely acclaimed Old Friends, starring Broadway legends Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga in the West End and on Broadway.

Cameron and Director Matthew Bourne’s newly reimagined production of Oliver! is currently playing to sellout audiences and rave reviews in the West End.

To celebrate Les Misérables’ record-breaking continuous run of over 40 years in the West End, the Arena Spectacular Concert version of Les Misérables is playing an extensive World Tour (a first for any musical on this scale) selling out across the UK and around the world with a stellar cast of Les Mis alumni. Previous filmed concerts, at the Royal Albert Hall, the O2 Arena and the Gielgud Theatre, are still continually screened on television and in cinemas throughout the world, alongside Cameron’s spectacular 25^th Anniversary Concert of The Phantom of the Opera, also at the Royal Albert Hall.

In 2012, alongside Working Title Films and Universal, Cameron produced the hugely successful Oscar®, Golden Globe and BAFTA award-winning film adaptation of Les Misérables, which is one of the most successful movies ever of an original stage musical. To celebrate over 10 years since its release, the movie has been remixed and re-released in full Dolby Atmos and Dolby Vision in selected cinemas around the world, as well as a new home vision 4K Blu-ray disc and iTunes download version of the film.

Cameron owns and operates eight historic London theatres, which have all been spectacularly rebuilt and refurbished for the 21st century. They house many of London’s most successful hits. The Sondheim, formerly known as the Queen’s, has been renamed in honour of Cameron’s great friend, theatrical legend Stephen Sondheim. Music Theatre International, one of the world’s oldest and largest libraries of secondary rights of many of the greatest musicals ever written, has been one of Cameron’s companies for over 30 years.  MTI represents and champions both exciting new contemporary writers as well as the great classics and proudly represents the second-class rights for Disney Theatrical.

In 1990, Cameron inaugurated the Chair of Contemporary Theatre at St Catherine’s College in Oxford University, with Stephen Sondheim as his first visiting professor. The Professorship is now in its 35^th year.

Cameron was knighted in the 1996 New Year’s Honours for his services to British theatre and in June 2023, was awarded the Freedom of the City of London. In 2014, he was the first British producer ever to be elected to Broadway’s Theater Hall of Fame.

Casting Director

Sarah Leung CDG

Sarah is a full member of BAFTA and the CDG, Jury for BAFTA best casting award 2024.

Born in Manchester, coming from a mixed British/Chinese background, Sarah started her career in film assisting producer Larry Franco on Batman Begins. She later was asked to return on post-production as assistant to Emma Thomas, wife of director Christopher Nolan. From here, Sarah moved into casting, assisting in Film (Children Of Men; Universal), TV (Luther, Law & Order UK, Red Dwarf, Waterloo Road, Hope Springs, BBC, ITV, C4), Theatre (Much Ado About Nothing, The Hypochondriac (Regents Park), Winslow Boy (Rose Theatre Kingston), Private Lives, Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me (Manchester Library Theatre).

Sarah’s first job in Musical Theatre was assisting the legendary casting director, Pippa Ailion, with many West End shows, alongside the brilliant casting director Natalie Gallacher.

Sarah is well known for her passion in casting a wide range of diverse, multi-talented actors and performers whether it be for stage or screen. Most recently, Sarah was Casting Director on the film Iteration (Dir Joe Johnston, Captain America), Past Life with Pixie Lott and Jeremy Piven, Bjorn of The Dead (Dir Sara Sugarman), The Boleyns (BBC), Trueman and the Arsonists (Dir Simon Stephens), The Jingleclaw (Birmingham Hippodrome, Dir Robyn Grant), Zayla (Dir Courteney Tan, East/SKY), Too Good To Be True (Dir Asia Mackay, East/SKY), Unfortunate (Dir Robyn Grant; six nominations, Off West End Awards, 2023), To Wong Foo the Musical (Dir Douglas Carter Beane; What’s On Stage Awards, Best Regional Show nominee, 2024), George Takei’s Allegiance (Dir Tara Overfield Wilkinson; What’s On Stage Awards, Best Off West End Show nominee, 2024), and Cable Street (Dir Adam Lenson, Stage Debut Awards, Southwark Playhouse, London).

Sarah feels very honoured to have cast her all-time favourite show, Miss Saigon.