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Cameron Mackintosh is London's West End's leading theatrical producer of
musicals such as Cats, Phantom of the Opera and Les Miserables. He is
also a significant theatre owner and has completed a two-decade campaign
of refurbishment and rebuilding of eight London theatres, at his own
personal cost of £250m, that has set the tempo for maintaining one of
Britain's greatest cultural heritages for the next century, the West End
theatre in the heart of the nation's artistic life.
Master of the House charts the histories of these eight iconic London
buildings; their origins, their stories, the iconic shows and
productions, the stars and the glamour. Lavishly illustrated with images
from the Delfont Mackintosh archive, the book also contains original
architect plans and drawings, specially-commissioned photographs of the
refurbishment, show posters and other theatre ephemera, and many
sweeping panoramas of the exquisitely finished spaces.
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