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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2010 |
Cameron Mackintosh wants to conquer China "Les Miserables" to open in Bejing next year British impresario Cameron Mackintosh is branching out East into China where he’ll be staging ‘local’ Mandarin productions of his internationally acclaimed shows as part of a deal with the China Arts and Entertainment Group. The first of his hit musicals to get this new treatment will be Les Miserables - changing its name slightly to Bu Gao Xing de Ren, which translates as ‘the people who are unhappy’). The cast of the production, which opens at the National Grand Theatre in Beijing in November 2008, will see the cast drawn entirely from local areas. Following that will be Cats and Miss Saigon and, if all goes well, My Fair Lady, Mary Poppins and The Phantom of the Opera. Although a number of these musicals have toured to the country before, notably an English-language Les Mis in Shanghai back in 2002, this new deal will see popular Western musicals have a new and more permanent lease of life in China. Mackintosh maintains that “the Western stage musical will not survive without an injection of the energy and creativity of the East”.
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