Olivier Award winning producer Colin Ingram has worked in the theatre industry for 27 years with some of the world's...
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2005
Established CIL to consult on Billy Elliot the Musical in Australia and Broadway and to produce Movin' Out in London's West End.
2008-2009
Premiere of Trevor Nunn's Gone With The Wind and Breakfast at Tiffany's in London's West End
2011-2012
GHOST The Musical opens in Manchester & London (nominated for 5 Laurence Olivier Awards) GHOST The Musical opens on Broadway (nominated for 3 Tony Awards)
2013-14
GHOST The Musical (Milan), Breakfast at Tiffany's (Broadway), GHOST The Muscial (Budapest and US Tour) GHOST The Musical (UK Tour and South Korea)
2015-16
GHOST The Musical (China) Breakfast at Tiffany's (UK Tour and West End, London). GHOST The Musical (Brazil and Australia)
2017-19
GHOST The Musical (Germany, China tour 2, Austria and Russia) GHOST The Musical (Stockholm, Hamburg, Trieste, Dubai, Istanbul, Japan) GHOST The Musical (Paris, Madrid & Italy)
2020
Back to the Future The Musical (Manchester) GHOST The Musical (South Korea)
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Ghost the Musical is a musical with book and lyrics by Bruce Joel Rubin and music and lyrics by Dave Stewart and Glen Ballard.
Based on the hit 1990 romantic drama film of the same name, the musical had its world premiere at the Manchester Opera House in Manchester in March 2011.
2011: United Kingdom (Manchester, West End)
2012: USA (Broadway)
2013: South Korea (Seoul), United Kingdom (National Tour), Hungary (Budapest)
2014: USA (National Tour), Italy (Milan), Philippines (Manila), Germany (Frankfurt)
2015: China (National Tour), Singapore, Taiwan
2016: Australia (National Tour), Brazil (San Paulo)
2017: Austria (Linz), Russia (Moscow), Germany (Berlin)
2018: Sweden (Stockholm), Brazil (Rio), France (Paris), Japan, Germany (Hamburg)
2019: Germany (Hamburg), Spain (Madrid)
2020: Italy, France (Paris)
CASE STUDY:
Social Media on GHOST The Musical London
GHOST The Musical's social media campaign was nominated alongside Virgin Atlantic for Best Social Media Strategy at the Mi Awards. CIL worked with Dewynters to launch the music of the show at Abbey Road Studios streaming the show live on Facebook and was the first West End show to stream its cast album on Spotify prior to show opening in the West End. Content is key to driving engagement with potential ticket buyers, and an example of CIL's content creation was GHOST's own version of Gotye's "Somebody That I Used To Know' by Mark Evans and Siobhan Dillon who played Sam and Molly, which has had 3.5 million views
CIL also worked with STEAM to create a powerful trailer all shot in one afternoon in Manchester so it was ready to use on digital platforms before the West End opening clocking up over 850K views.
Based on Truman Capote's novella and 1961 film of the same name, titled Breakfast at Tiffany's, was adapted by Richard Greenberg
2009: United Kingdom (West End)
2013: USA (Broadway)
2016: United Kingdom (West End, National Tour)
CASE STUDY:
Sponsorship on Breakfast at Tiffany's London
CIL worked with Brown-Forman to increase awareness of their Chambord liquor and the 2009 production of Breakfast At Tiffany's starring Anna Friel. The partnership was one of the largest in the West End equivalent to one third of the mount cost of the production which helped quickly recoup the initial capitalisation. CIL used the campaign to increase awareness of the show to potential ticket buyers in non-traditional PR such as sport, food & beverage and fashion. A "HUNT FOR HOLLY" competition for the top mixologists around the UK to create the 'Holly Golightly' cocktail was entered by over 100 bar tenders in the top restaurants and hotels.
A million pound bottle of Chambord encrusted with diamonds was created for the opening of Breakfast At Tiffany's and was shown at the London Fashion Week. Dewynters combined the sponsor activity with brands like HELLO! Magazine, Liberty's of London and Firmdale Hotels to increase further PR coverage and awareness of the production.
Colin Ingram
Producer and CEO
Olivier Award winning producer Colin Ingram has worked in the theatre industry for 27 years with some of the world's leading producers, directors, designers and writers. He has worked nine years on Back to the Future –The Musical, developing, workshopping and producing it at Manchester Opera House and now at the Adelphi Theatre. The production won Best Musical in 2022 at the Olivier Awards, What’s On Stage Awards and Broadwayworld.com.
He thanks Glen Ballard for introducing him to 'the Bobs' and for them trusting him with the musical.
Colin acts as global producer on Ghost the Musical, which has been staged in 22 countries in 14 languages in over 30 productions. He lead-produced the musical in Manchester, London and Broadway where it was nominated for five Olivier Awards and three Tony Awards® and won Best Musical at the Manchester Theatre Awards.
He was Executive Producer of the Tony and Olivier-Award winning Billy Elliot the Musical in the West End and consulted on the Broadway and Australian productions.
He also lead-produced Breakfast at Tiffany's on Broadway and twice in the West End, and on the UK tour starring Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones), Anna Friel and Pixie Lott. It won a broadway.com award for Best Play.
He co-founded InTheatre Productions and lead-produces the new production of Grease which is playing at the Dominion Theatre this summer starring Jason Donovan and Peter Andre following two successful UK tours, and is producing a new musical based on The Time Traveller's Wife with music by Brit Award-winner Joss Stone and Grammy®-winner Dave Stewart from Eurythmics this September at the Chester Storyhouse prior to a West End transfer.
Prior to becoming an independent producer, Colin worked for Cameron Mackintosh for six years, general-managing Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera, Oklahoma! (starring Hugh Jackman), The Witches of Eastwick and the Les Misérables 10th Anniversary Concert at the Royal Albert Hall.
He then joined Disney Theatrical Productions to be UK Managing Director overseeing the London office and the productions of The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast and other shows in development. Colin then joined the Old Vic as Executive Producer and produced Hamlet starring Ben Whishaw, Aladdin starring Ian McKellen, Richard II, The Philadelphia Story and National Anthems.
He then produced the Billy Joel/Twyla Tharp musical Movin' Out in the West End, and co-produced Gone With the Wind directed by Trevor Nunn.
In 2016, Colin joined Madison Square Gardens Entertainment as Executive Vice President of Productions. At Radio City, he produced the New York Spectacular starring the Radio City Rockettes – a major undertaking involving over 350 cast, crew and musicians – and produced the 2016 Christmas Spectacular starring the Radio City Rockettes, achieving the highest revenue in its 85-year history. Colin was a non-Executive Director of the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo and proud founder of the Edinburgh University Footlights, now in its 30th year.