He was the narrator for a 21st Anniversary BBC Radio 2 special broadcast of Cameron Mackintosh's musical Les Misérables, sung by the then West End cast at the Mermaid Theatre in London on Sunday 8 October 2006.

Mackintosh's less successful productions include Moby Dick, Martin Guerre and the stage adaptation of John Updike's The Witches of Eastwick which, despite some positive reviews and run of over 15 months, failed to replicate the worldwide success of his previous blockbusters.

Cameron Mackintosh's stage adaptation of Mary Poppins had its world premiere at the Bristol Hippodrome starting with previews from September 15, 2004 before officially opening on September 18 for a limited engagement until November 6.

He is one of the few actors to play both the roles of Raoul ( 1991 ) and the Phantom ( 1999 ) in the Broadway production of The Phantom of the Opera, but after wearing the mask for only a few months, he left to play the title role in the American premiere of Sir Cameron Mackintosh's Martin Guerre.

Since April 2004, the theatre has played host to Cameron Mackintosh's production of Les Misérables which transferred after 18 years at the nearby Palace Theatre.

The bars were originally made by Mackintosh's at their Halifax factory but in recent years are now made in a factory in Castleford in West Yorkshire.

Mackintosh's mother was Leonora Sophia ( d. 1891 ), daughter of Col. Dickinson, of Jamaica, British West Indies.

Mackintosh's Delfont Mackintosh Theatres took over operational control of the Gielgud from Andrew Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Theatres in 2006.

About this time Pryce sang at The Hollywood Bowl alongside opera singer Lesley Garrett in highlights from My Fair Lady and in 1998, he performed in Cameron Mackintosh's gala concert Hey, Mr Producer !, also as Professor Henry Higgins from My Fair Lady and reprising his role as the Engineer from Miss Saigon.

During Mrs Grote's convalescence at Hampstead, he wrote his first published work, the " Statement of the Question of Parliamentary Reform " ( 1821 ), in reply to Sir James Mackintosh's article in the Edinburgh Review, advocating popular representation, vote by ballot and short parliaments.

In 1997 Humphries reprised the role of Fagin in Cameron Mackintosh's award winning revival at the London Palladium.

Coupled with his innate talents, they may also have served to mark him in Conservative party political circles where, in 1893, Canada's Prime Minister Sir John Thompson clearly viewed him as the more suitable vice-regal candidate over rival fellow Tory, Nicholas Flood Davin, whose own chagrin at Mackintosh's appointment is well documented.

Mackintosh's Delfont Mackintosh group owns seven London theatres, the Prince Edward, the Prince of Wales, the Novello, the Queen's, the Gielgud, the Wyndham's, and the Noël Coward.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City held a major retrospective exhibition of Charles Rennie Mackintosh's works from 21 November 1996 to 16 February 1997.

Along with the Industrial Revolution, Asian style and emerging modernist ideas also influenced Mackintosh's designs.

Much of this work combines Mackintosh's own designs with those of his wife, whose flowing, floral style complemented his more formal, rectilinear work.

Later in life, disillusioned with architecture, Mackintosh worked largely as a watercolourist, painting numerous landscapes and flower studies ( often in collaboration with Margaret, with whose style Mackintosh's own gradually converged ) in the Suffolk village of Walberswick ( to which the pair moved in 1914 ), where he was briefly arrested as amid accusations of being a German spy in 1915.

" It is not known exactly which of Charles Rennie Mackintosh's works Margaret was involved with ( or the extent to which she worked on them ) but she is credited with being an important part of her husband's figurative, symbolic interior designs.

It has been compared with Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Glasgow School of Art and it is sometimes suggested that Mackintosh's designs for the later part of the school were inspired by Holden's, although Pevsner noted that Mackintosh's designs were in circulation earlier.

The Mackintosh House features some of the original woodwork of the old terraced house, and has been furnished entirely to Mackintosh's design, with original decorations and furniture.

In 1988, Rowntree Mackintosh ( as it then was, having merged with Mackintosh's in the 1960s ) was losing money and was sold to Swiss company Nestlé, who was already famous for its own Nesquik flavoured milkshakes and Milkybar white chocolate bars.

In July 1979, Mackintosh was flying with two others ( his friend Graham Barber, who was the pilot ; and Mackintosh's girlfriend, Susan Insole ) over the Gulf of Alaska in a light aircraft.

In June and July 2012 The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Radio Show embarked on a live tour of the UK, directed by Dirk Maggs and starring the original radio cast recreating their roles: Simon Jones as Arthur Dent, Geoffrey McGivern as Ford Prefect, Susan Sheridan as Trillian, Mark Wing-Davey as Zaphod Beeblebrox, the voice of Stephen Moore as Marvin The Paranoid Android ( Moore being unavailable to perform in person, as he was touring with Cameron Mackintosh's production of Oliver!

For Lardner's, Cabinet Cyclopaedia he wrote: History of Russia ( 3 vols., 1836-1838 ); Lives of English Poets ( 2 vols., 1839 ); a continuation, with W Wallace, of Sir James Mackintosh's History of England ( vols.

The creator of this candy bar ( Jasper T. Rolo ) developed Rolo's in the UK by Mackintosh's, ( later Rowntree-Mackintosh ), simply Mackintosh's Toffee coated with chocolate, they were first sold in 1937.

Mackintosh's paternal grandfather was Captain Duncan Mackintosh, a Scotsman who had been sent to Ireland with the British Army's Highland regiment during the Irish Rebellion of 1798.

Mackintosh's grand, if vague, ties to the ruling class, there is occasional confusion with another Mackintosh author, Charles Henry Mackintosh ( 1820 – 1896 ), a prolific Plymouth Brethren author and evangelist, who was known principally by the initials, C. H. M., which happen to coincide with those of the present subject.

Like his contemporary Frank Lloyd Wright, Mackintosh's architectural designs often included extensive specifications for the detailing, decoration, and furnishing of his buildings.

Although moderately popular ( for a period ) in his native Scotland, most of Mackintosh's more ambitious designs were not built.

Mackintosh's architectural output was small, but he did influence European design.

This group of artists exhibited in Glasgow, London and Vienna, and these exhibitions helped establish Mackintosh's reputation.

The front ( north ) CM Mackintosh's Glasgow School of Art on Renfrew Street, Garnethill in Glasgow, Scotland.

Mackintosh's designs gained in popularity in the decades following his death.

The sale included work by Mackintosh's sister-in-law Frances Macdonald and her husband Herbert MacNair.

Mackintosh's best-known books were written under the name of Josephine Tey.

Her best known works include the gesso panel The May Queen, which was made to partner Mackintosh's panel The Wassail for Miss Cranston's Ingram Street Tearooms, and Oh ye, all ye that walk in Willowood, which formed part of the decorative scheme for the Room de Luxe in the Willow Tearooms.

Heusenstamm: Ontos, 2008 ). The Fragment on Mackintosh severely criticizes the alleged flimsiness and misrepresentations of Sir James Mackintosh's famous Dissertation on the Progress of Ethical Philosophy ( 1830 ), and discusses the foundations of ethics from the author's utilitarian point of view.

of Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments ; Mackintosh's Progress of Ethical Philosophy ; Cousin, Cours d ' histoire de la philosophie morale du XVIII ' siècle ; Whewell's Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy in England ; A Bain's Mental and Moral Science ; Noah Porter's Appendix to the English translation of Ueberweg's History of Philosophy ; Sir Leslie Stephen's History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Gentury, etc.

Notices of Price's ethical system occur in James Mackintosh's Progress of Ethical Philosophy, Jouffroy's Introduction to Ethics, William Whewell's History of Moral Philosophy in England ; Alexander Bain's Mental and Moral Sciences.

His wife's prudence counteracted Mackintosh's own unpractical temperament, and his efforts in journalism became fairly profitable.

The speech was widely published in English and also across Europe in a French translation by Madame de Staël, who became a friend of Mackintosh's.

Mackintosh's parliamentary career was marked by the same wide and candid liberalism as his private life.

Mackintosh's notes stopped in the year of 1701, where Macaulay's History also ends.

-Cameron Mackintosh's revival directed by Sam Mendes.