Also credited on3 works
Mary Poppins
Miss Saigon
The Phantom of the Opera
These come off the person record, which names a work and not a production. So we can say this name is attached to the work and we cannot say which staging, or in what capacity. For a composer or a writer that is the whole career we hold; there is no cast list to find them in.
In the literature8 passages
- Although his name is seldom heard in the same sentence as those of Florenz Ziegfeld , Max Reinhardt or Cameron Mackintosh , Emanuel Schikaneder (1751-1812) is, for me, one of the great (pardon the expression) unsung heroes of the musical. The friendship that he struck up with Leopold Mozart – and, more significantly with his son Wolfgang…ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
- “Certain musicals play better within their own country than outside”, says London producer Sir Cameron Mackintosh . “ Guys and Dolls has always proved to be the longest running musical in New York when it is revived, whereas in England it would be Joseph [ and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat ] , Oliver! and My Fair Lady . A Chorus Line…ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
- Cameron Mackintosh in letter to the author dated 18 July 2003, cited in Mel Atkey , Broadway North: The Dream of a Canadian Musical Theatre , Natural Heritage Books, Toronto, p.138.ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
- When Cameron Mackintosh acquired the stage rights to Mary Poppins , one of the conditions dictated by the late author P.L. (Penelope) Travers was that the writers must be British. Mackintosh knew that audiences would expect to hear the songs by Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman from the Walt Disney movie – which Travers loathed – so he ask…ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
- The Philippines has been noted for the quality of its musical theatre talent ever since Lea Salonga won the title role in Miss Saigon . (In fact, Cameron Mackintosh found much of his cast there.) Most successful of the indigenous musical writers is Ryan Cayabyab (1954- ), a pop singer who has also crossed over into the classical world as…ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
- Sir Cameron Mackintosh maintains, “There have never been that many really good musicals… We can all probably agree on the top dozen, but then we’d all have a huge argy-bargy about the next 20. And that’s about all there is.” [523] Of the many musicals he receives from unknown writers, “Ninety percent are terrible. They’re untalented and s…ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
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- What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
- Any staging. This name appears in no production cast list we hold — 1,877 of 7,139 people are in that position, most of them writers, composers and designers rather than performers.
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