James Norton, Andrew Scott, Sarah Jessica Parker, Sarah Snook and David Tennant are among the many stars to have obtained Olivier nominations in a yr when British theatre was dominated by celeb castings.
Competitors had been fierce for this yr’s prestigious honours, with considerably extra theatre productions operating within the UK than final yr – and lots of of them changing into on the spot sellouts as a result of their inclusion of main TV, movie and music figures.
Norton has been nominated for A Little Life, Parker for Plaza Suite, Tennant for Macbeth, and Snook and Scott for his or her one-person performances in The Image of Dorian Grey and Vanya, respectively. Different onscreen stars nominated are Nicole Scherzinger for Sundown Boulevard, Sheridan Smith for Shirley Valentine, Mark Gatiss for The Motive and the Cue, and Joseph Fiennes for Pricey England.
Soccer drama Pricey England is essentially the most nominated play with 9 nods, together with Fiennes for greatest actor, Will Shut for greatest actor in a supporting function, Gina McKee for greatest actress in a supporting function, Rupert Goold for greatest director and The Londoner Award for greatest new play.
The Nationwide Theatre manufacturing, which transferred to the Prince Edward Theatre within the West Finish, moreover obtained nominations for greatest set design (Es Devlin), greatest lighting design (Jon Clark) and greatest sound design (Dan Balfour and Tom Gibbons). It’s also the one play with a nomination for greatest theatre choreographer (Ellen Kane and Hannes Langolf). The Guardian known as it a “touching, humorous retelling of [England manager] Gareth Southgate’s quiet revolution”.
In whole, the Nationwide Theatre has garnered essentially the most nominations (15) throughout its productions, with The Motive and the Cue, Until the Stars Come Down and The Impact additionally recognised throughout quite a lot of classes.
However this yr’s single most nominated manufacturing is Jamie Lloyd’s musical Sundown Boulevard, a revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ballad to Hollywood on the Savoy theatre. It obtained nominations for greatest actress in a musical (Scherzinger), greatest actor in a musical (Tom Francis), greatest actor in a supporting function in a musical (David Thaxton) and greatest actress in a supporting function in a musical (Grace Hodgett Younger).
Sundown Boulevard additionally obtained recognition for greatest musical revival, the Sir Peter Corridor award for greatest director (Lloyd) and excellent musical contribution nomination (Alan Williams). Its manufacturing crew nominations embody greatest lighting design (Jack Knowles), greatest sound design (Adam Fisher), greatest set design (Soutra Gilmour) and greatest theatre choreographer (Fabian Aloise).
In the meantime, the nominations for greatest new musical are The Little Massive Issues, Subsequent To Regular, Operation Mincemeat and A Unusual Loop.
Alongside Parker, Snook and Smith, nominees for greatest actress additionally embody Sophie Okonedo and Laura Donnelly.
Donnelly starred in The Hills of California, written by her husband Jez Butterworth, which has been nominated for greatest new play alongside James Graham’s Pricey England, Jack Thorne’s The Motive and the Cue and Beth Metal’s Until the Stars Come Down.
Haydn Gwynne has been posthumously nominated for greatest actress in a supporting function for her efficiency in When Winston Went to Struggle With the Wi-fi at Donmar Warehouse. Lorraine Ashbourne (Until the Stars Come Down), Priyanga Burford (An Enemy of the Folks), and Tanya Reynolds (A Mirror) be part of her and McKee (Pricey England) within the class.
The performs nominated for greatest revival have been the Donmar Warehouse’s Macbeth, the Nationwide’s The Impact (by Lucy Prebble), and Shirley Valentine (by Willy Russell) and Vanya (by Anton Chekhov and tailored by Simon Stephens), which have been each staged on the Duke of York’s theatre.
Alongside Sundown Boulevard, there has additionally been a swell of robust favourites in one of the best musical revival class, together with the Outdated Vic’s Groundhog Day, which received the Olivier award for greatest new musical in 2017, the Bridge theatre’s immersive Guys & Dolls, and Hadestown on the Lyric theatre.
Eleanor Worthington Cox, who on the age of 10 grew to become the youngest Olivier winner in 2012 for Matilda, has been nominated for greatest actress in a supporting function in a musical for her efficiency in Subsequent to Regular on the Donmar Warehouse.
The Olivier awards will happen on Sunday 14 April on the Royal Albert Corridor, hosted by Hannah Waddingham and broadcast through ITV.
