Associate Producer, General Manager and Booking Agent of the MAMMA MIA! International & UK Tour. The hugely successful English-language International Tour premiered in Dublin in September 2004 and, to date, has visited 123 cities in 42 countries and regions and been seen by over 7.3 million people.
Co-Producer, General Manager and Booking Agent for the LES MISÉRABLES World Tour. Booked to perform in over 15 countries and regions worldwide, the World Tour began as the stage musical entered its 39th revolutionary year and will run throughout the upcoming 40th anniversary celebrations for the world’s longest running musical in 2025.
Executive Producer, General Manager and Booking Agent for MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL World Tour. Winner of ten Tony Awards, including Best Musical, the show embarks on its first world tour in 2025.
Lead Producer for APOLLO 11 – The Immersive Live Show, which premiered at The Rose Bowl, Los Angeles in July 2019 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing, staged in a ground breaking, purpose-built venue, The Lunar Dome.
Co-Producer, General Manager and Booking Agent for WALKING WITH DINOSAURS – The Arena Spectacular (2018/19 International Tour) and General Manager and Booking Agent the 2009-10 & 2012-13 tours in the UK, Europe, Japan and South East Asia, which in its first year alone was seen by over 1.8 million people.
Co-producer, General Manager and Booking Agent for the BLUE MAN GROUP WORLD TOUR, which opened in Singapore (March 2016) and toured to New Zealand, China, Manila, South Africa, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Italy, the UK, Germany, Austria and Turkey.
Booking Agent and Tour Management for WICKED International Tour 2017/18, with International dates in Singapore, Hong Kong, Manila, China and Switzerland.
Tour Consultants for The Walt Disney Company on THE LION KING season in Basel, Switzerland (2015).
Producer of BATMAN LIVE – World Arena Tour, in collaboration with Warner Bros. Consumer Products and DC Entertainment, which was performed in 17 countries in 6 different languages across Europe, South America and North America 2011-12.
Associate Producer for the 2008 South African production of SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER (Johannesburg) and the 2010-11 South African production of MAMMA MIA! (Cape Town and Johannesburg).
Producer of BOUNCE – THE STREETDANCE SENSATION, premiering in Stockholm (2001) with two highly successful London seasons (The Roundhouse and Sadler’s Wells), as well as two European tours and one tour of South Africa.
From 1995 - 2007, NGM pioneered and become market leaders in presenting arena musicals in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland with productions of CHESS, EVITA, JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, FAME, HAIR, GREASE, SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER, CATS and STARLIGHT EXPRESS.
For over 10 years, NGM exclusively represented Dame Kiri Te Kanawa worldwide and managed over 300 engagements, including a televised concert in the Australian Outback; her 50th birthday celebration (Royal Albert Hall); the Millennium Concert in Gisborne, New Zealand (broadcast live in over 80 countries with an estimated audience of one billion viewers); and an outdoor concert in Brazil that attracted more than 100,000 people.
ANTHONY VAN LAAST CBE
Theatre includes: Tina The Musical (worldwide – Tony Nomination and Outer Critics Circle Award), MAMMA MIA! (worldwide – Dora Mavor Moore Award), Sister Act (worldwide – Olivier Award nomination), Side Show (Broadway – Hayes Award nomination), Hair (Old Vic – Olivier Award nomination), Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Song and Dance (worldwide – Green Room Award), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat (worldwide – Olivier Award nomination, Dramalogue Award), Bombay Dreams (London, Broadway – Tony Award nomination), Candide (Old Vic – Olivier Award for best musical). Anthony has made shows for many performances, including Cher, Kate Bush, Sarah Brightman, Elaine Paige, Barry Humphries (Dame Edna), Mika, Ant and Dec, and in Las Vegas, Siegfried and Roy and Michael Crawford.
Film includes: Beauty and the Beast, MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGAIN, MAMMA MIA!, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1, Never Say Never Again, Excalibur and Hope and Glory.
In 1999 he was awarded the MBE and in 2019 he was awarded the CBE both from Her Majesty The Queen and both for services to dance and choreography.