Hollywood stars, a Pussycat Doll and a success play about Gareth Southgate lead the nominations for this 12 months’s Olivier Awards.
Sarah Jessica Parker, Sarah Snook and Nicole Scherzinger are all among the many 2024 nominees, together with James Norton, Andrew Scott and David Tennant.
Singer and Pussycat Dolls star Scherzinger has been nominated for her main function within the revival of Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Sundown Boulevard, which leads the Olivier Awards cost with 11 nominations in complete.
Nicole Scherzinger, pictured performing on the Coronation, is nominated for her efficiency in Sundown Boulevard
Expensive England, which tells the story of Southgate and the lads’s soccer group’s journey by the 2022 World Cup, follows with 9 nods – together with finest new play and finest actor for Joseph Fiennes’ portrayal of the supervisor.
Fiennes, star of The Handmaid’s Story, faces competitors for the prize from Sherlock star Mark Gatiss for The Motive And The Cue, Pleased Valley’s Norton for his function in A Little Life, Physician Who star David Tennant for Macbeth, and All Of Us Strangers actor Andrew Scott for Vanya.
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Expensive England tells the story of Gareth Southgate’s time as England supervisor. Pic: Reuters/John Sibley
The sports activities drama, which is a fictionalised account of the struggles and successes of England’s soccer group, additionally obtained nods for Gina McKee’s portrayal of group psychologist Pippa Grange and Will Shut’s flip as Harry Kane within the supporting actress and actor classes respectively.
Intercourse And The Metropolis star Parker is nominated for Plaza Suite, by which she performs alongside her husband Matthew Broderick, and leads a star-studded line-up in one of the best actress class; Succession actress Snook can also be within the operating for her efficiency in The Image Of Dorian Grey – a one-woman adaptation enjoying 26 roles.
Cilla star Sheridan Smith can also be nominated for Shirley Valentine, The Fall actress Laura Donnelly for The Hills Of California, and Lodge Rwanda actress Sophie Okonedo for Medea.
Sarah Snook, finest recognized for Succession (pictured), is up for finest actress. Pic: Sky UK
US singer Scherzinger, who performs a famed Hollywood star fading and spiralling into psychological sickness in Sundown Boulevard, is up in opposition to Natasha Hodgson for Operation Mincemeat, Caissie Levy for Subsequent To Regular, and Movie star Massive Brother star Marisha Wallace for Guys & Dolls, for one of the best actress in a musical gong.
Her Sundown Boulevard co-star Tom Francis is up for the male prize, which additionally options nominations for David Cumming for Operation Mincemeat, Daniel Mays for Guys & Dolls, and Charlie Stemp for Loopy For You.
The manufacturing is up in opposition to Tim Minchin’s Groundhog Day, Anais Mitchell’s Hadestown, and Frank Loesser’s Guys & Dolls in one of the best musical revival class.
The late Haydn Gwynne receives a posthumous nomination for finest actress in a supporting function for her efficiency in When Winston Went To Battle With The Wi-fi.
Throughout all of the nominations, the Nationwide Theatre garnered probably the most nods by a number of of its productions, with Expensive England, The Motive And The Cue, Until The Stars Come Down and The Impact all recognised throughout a variety of classes.
Organisers stated the competitors for nominations had been “fierce throughout an excellent 12 months for theatre, with considerably extra productions than final 12 months”.
The annual awards ceremony takes place on Sunday 14 April on the Royal Albert Corridor.
