Cameron Mackintosh is Determined to Put an End to HAMILTON Ticket Resellers

It's been an issue for as long as anyone can remember, but if anyone can try to stop it, it's Cameron Macintosh. The West End producer stated in his latest interview with The Telegraph that it's time to put an end to ticket touts, especially when Hamilton lands there in fall 2018.

Macintosh told The Telegraph, "It's horrible and it has got to stop. In the old days, with Cats, you knew who the touts were. You'd pick them out of the queue and tell them to hop it. Now you've got these sophisticated computer programs hoovering up tickets - and you've also got members of the public tempted by those inflated prices trying to sell tickets themselves."

No word on how Macintosh intends to stop the ticket resellers, but he is, "putting all my efforts into finding a better way of ensuring that the price originally set for a ticket remains the price you actually do pay. We're going to stop resale except in genuine circumstances where someone is ill or can't come and the only permitted resale will then be via the theatre."

In the U.S., ticket bots were banned from New York, with laws working its way through Congress.

For nearly 45 years Cameron Mackintosh has been producing more musicals than anyone else in history, including the three longest running musicals of all time, "LES MISERABLES", "The Phantom of the Opera" and "Cats". "Mary Poppins", his co-production with Disney, is now also dispersing its magic globally with smash hit productions having just opened in Australia and Holland, with further productions soon to open in Germany and Japan. "Miss Saigon", another of his massive hits, continues to spawn around the world. As well as new musicals, Cameron enjoys producing new versions of such classics as "Oliver!" which has just enjoyed another record-breaking run at London's legendary Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.

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