Olivier Awards 2011

So... The Olivier Awards 2011. Those I hoped or suspected would win is underlined, while the actual winner is in bold. For many of the categories I haven't seen one single of the productions, therefore I haven't underlined any.

I think the biggest surprise this evening was that "We Will Rock You" won the audience award, and that "Love Never Dies" didn't bring home one single award. I had seriously expected Ramin Karimloo to be one of the winners, and also that they'd get a design award or two. But nope, 7 nominations, no wins whatsoever. That's bad. "After the Dance" winning so much was also a bit of a surprise, I think.



BEST ACTRESS
Tracie Bennett for End of the Rainbow
Nancy Carroll for After the Dance
Tamsin Greig for The Little Dog Laughed
Sophie Thompson for Clybourne Park


BEST ACTOR
Roger Allam for Henry IV Part 1 & Part 2
Derek Jacobi for King Lear
Rory Kinnear for Hamlet
Mark Rylance for La Bête
David Suchet for All My Sons


BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Sarah Goldberg for Clybourne Park
Anastasia Hille for The Master Builder
Gina McKee for King Lear
Rachael Stirling for An Ideal Husband
Michelle Terry for Tribes


BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
James Laurenson for Hamlet
Hilton McRae for End of the Rainbow
Lee Ross for Birdsong at the Comedy
Adrian Scarborough for After the Dance


MASTERCARD BEST NEW PLAY
Clybourne Park
Downstairs
End of the Rainbow
Sucker Punch
The Little Dog Laughed
Tribes


BEST MUSICAL REVIVAL
Into the Woods
Passion
Sweet Charity


BEST NEW MUSICAL
Fela!
Legally Blonde
Love Never Dies
Love Story


BEST ENTERTAINMENT
Beauty and the Beast
Ghost Stories
Potted Panto
The Railway Children


BEST ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
Sierra Boggess for Love Never Dies
Elena Roger for Passion
Sheridan Smith for Legally Blonde: The Musical
Emma Williams for Love Story


BEST ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
Alex Gaumond for Legally Blonde: The Musical
Ramin Karimloo for Love Never Dies
Sahr Ngaujah for Fela!
David Thaxton for Passion
Michael Xavier for Love Story


BEST PERFORMANCE IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MUSICAL
Josefina Gabrielle for Sweet Charity
Jill Halfpenny for Legally Blonde: The Musical
Summer Strallen for Love Never Dies
Michael Xavier for Into the Woods


BEST DIRECTOR
Dominic Cooke for Clybourne Park
Howard Davies for The White Guard
Michael Grandage for King Lear
Thea Sharrock for After the Dance


BEST REVIVAL
After the Dance directed by Thea Sharrock
All My Sons directed by Howard Davies
King Lear directed by Michael Grandage
When We Are Married directed by Christopher Luscombe


BEST THEATRE CHOREOGRAPHER
Leon Baugh for Sucker Punch
Bill T. Jones for Fela!
Stephen Mear for Sweet Charity
Jerry Mitchell for Legally Blonde: The Musical


BEST LIGHTING DESIGN
After the Dance designed by Mark Henderson
Deathtrap designed by Hugh Vanstone
Love Never Dies designed by Paule Constable
The White Guard designed by Neil Austin


XL VIDEO AWARD FOR BEST SET DESIGN
Design for Living designed by Lez Brotherston
Earthquakes in London designed by Miriam Buether
Love Never Dies designed by Bob Crowley
The White Guard designed by Bunny Christie


BEST COSTUME DESIGN
After the Dance designed by Hildegard Bechtler
Design for Living designed by Lez Brotherston
London Assurance designed by Mark Thompson
Love Never Dies designed by Bob Crowley


BEST SOUND DESIGN
End of the Rainbow designed by Gareth Owen
Ghost Stories designed by Nick Manning
King Lear designed by Adam Cork
The Railway Children designed by Craig Vear


OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN AN AFFILIATE THEATRE
The Royal Court and Drum Theatre Plymouth for The Empire
Soho Theatre and ATC for Ivan and the Dogs
Trafalgar Studios 2 and Donmar Warehouse for Les Parents Terribles
Lyric Hammersmith for Blasted


OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN OPERA
Jonas Kaufmann for his performance in the Royal Opera’s Adriana Lecouvreur
Andrew Shore for his performance in English National Opera’s The Elixir of Love
Christian Gerhaher for his performance in the Royal Opera’s Tannhäuser


BEST NEW DANCE PRODUCTION
Mambo 3XX1 by Danza Contemporanea de Cuba
Babel (Words) by Eastman vzw and Theatre Royal
Cinderella by New Adventures


BEST NEW OPERA PRODUCTION
La Boheme
Adriana Lecouvreur
Elegy for Young Lovers
A Dog's Heart


OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN DANCE
John MacFarlane for his designs for Asphodel Meadow
Antony Gormley for his set design of Babel (Words)
Yoshi Sunahata for her drumming in Gnosis


BBC RADIO 2 OLIVIER AUDIENCE AWARD
We Will Rock You
Les Miserables
Jersey Boys

The musical-related nominations shows just how dire the state of musical theatre is in the West End right now.

Love Never Dies did get some spotlight at the Oliviers though, I find it really sad that my first thought when Sierra stood up out the boat was "Hey! That's the dressing gown from Love Never Dies not Phantom!"

starryeyed wrote:Love Never Dies did get some spotlight at the Oliviers though, I find it really sad that my first thought when Sierra stood up out the boat was "Hey! That's the dressing gown from Love Never Dies not Phantom!"

That was my second thought. My first thought was "what's up with that wig?!"

Yes that wig was odd! I think it's the one she wore as Christine!Bot in LND but I'm not entirely sure, I also for a second thought to myself it was perhaps one of her wigs that is normally worn up at the back. Ah the things we notice.

starryeyed wrote:Yes that wig was odd! I think it's the one she wore as Christine!Bot in LND but I'm not entirely sure, I also for a second thought to myself it was perhaps one of her wigs that is normally worn up at the back. Ah the things we notice.

Haha, my initial thought as well, the moment I was the wig from the back.

The musical-related nominations shows just how dire the state of musical theatre is in the West End right now.

Yes, the West End certainly is in a lull right now. Only some years ago London was a bit like the holy grail, there were SO many shows I wanted to see, and impossible to pick only two. Now? Meeeh. There's little will to write something entirely new, it seems, which is not based on a movie or a prequel/sequel, or jukebox based. But I think London needs a boost of new, creative writers to come out of this lull. It just can't continue like this, or the West End will die. At least musical production wise.

It's been a fairly exciting year for non-musical theatre, though.

The cadenza was on playback wasn't it?