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Post by americanresident3333 on Apr 15, 2024 8:02:52 GMT
Clive Davis in The Sunday Times has quite the takes. He seems to take issue with the winners despite them being widely-acclaimed performances and shows. When in fact two of last year’s winners Paul Mescal and Jodie Comer were and are way more famous than the winners in their respective categories this year (Mescal had already been nominated for an Oscar); I wonder if he said in an article about them that they only won because they’re famous like he’s done this regarding the winners year. Disgustingly rude. Heck David Tennant and Sarah Jessica Parker are more famous than all of the winners this year.
From the way these pundits throw around the words “celebrity” and “famous,” you’d think Kim Kardashian was being nominated for & winning Olivier’s.
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Post by Dave B on Apr 15, 2024 8:13:09 GMT
I am glad I booked today off work!
As promised, here is how I voted in the final round.
Best Actor - Mark Gatiss, Motive & The Cue - National Theatre – Lyttelton & Noël Coward Theatre
Best Actress - Sarah Snook - The Picture of Dorian Grey - Theatre Royal Haymarket
Best Actor in a Musical - Charlie Stemp - Gillian Lynne Theatre
Best Actress in a Musical - Cassie Levy - Next To Normal - Donmar Warehouse
Best New Play Till The Stars Come Down - National Theatre - Dorfman
Best New Entertainment or Comedy Play Accidental Death Of An Anarchist - Lyric Hammersmith
Best Revival The Effect - National Theatre - Lyttelton
Best Musical Revival - Groundhog Day - The Old Vic
Best New Musical - Next To Normal - Donmar Warehouse
Best Set Design - Guys & Dolls - Bridge Theatre, Bunny Christie for Set Design
Best Costume Design - La Cage Aux Folles - Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, Ryan Dawson Laight
Best Lighting Design - Sunset Boulevard - Savoy Theatre, Jack Knowles
Best Sound Design - Macbeth - Donmar Warehouse, Gareth Fry
Best Director - Sunset Boulevard - Savoy Theatre, Jamie Lloyd
Best Theatre Choreographer - Guys & Dolls - Bridge Theatre, Arlene Phillips with James Cousins
Outstanding Musical Contribution - Sunset Boulevard - Savoy Theatre, Alan Williams for Musical Supervision & Musical Direction
Best Actor In A Supporting Role - Zubin Varla - A Little Life, Harold Pinter Theatre & Savoy Theatre
Best Actress In A Supporting Role - Tanya Reynolds - A Mirror, Almeida Theatre & Trafalgar Theatre
Best Actor In A Supporting Role in a musical - Jack Wolfe - Next To Normal, Donmar Warehouse
Best Actress In A Supporting Role in a musical - Amy Trigg - The Little Big Things, @sohoplace
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Post by alece10 on Apr 15, 2024 8:20:06 GMT
Well it was Sunset's night which I am pleased about, one downside is that Tom Francis beat Charlie Stemp but I think if Sunset wasn't there then Charlie would have won.
Really pleased for Operation Mincemeat and a very well deserved win.
Also a novelty to have a winning show that's still on in the west end as usually the winning musical has been and gone. The win should secure their continuing run in London.
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Post by mrnutz on Apr 15, 2024 8:23:05 GMT
That NT "celebration" was a pure circle jerk of cringe.
One AD handing over to another - bleurgh. To be fair to them they didn't look like they wanted to do it either.
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Post by normasturban on Apr 15, 2024 8:28:09 GMT
Mincemeat should be aiming off Broadway at a push.
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Post by shownut on Apr 15, 2024 8:48:54 GMT
Mincemeat should be aiming off Broadway at a push. Agreed. It might last a short while at New World Stages or one of the small houses along W 42nd but a Broadway house? Maybe the Helen Hayes (which already has an open-ended tenant lined up) but I wouldn't bet on it. |
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Post by Mark on Apr 15, 2024 9:31:39 GMT
The Booth would be perfect for it.
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Post by distantcousin on Apr 15, 2024 9:48:18 GMT
Issue with Hannah, and I watched her host Eurovision too- she just tries TOO HARD. But admittedly I much prefer dry humour & hate slap stick etc. it just comes off so hammy. She comes across as too earnest - which is typically a very American trait. Maybe that's where she's learnt it. It's quite incongruous on an Englishwoman! |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Apr 15, 2024 9:55:47 GMT
She looked fabulous in that blue dress.
Nicole also looked extremely classy and elegant. Every inch the superstar diva.
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Post by distantcousin on Apr 15, 2024 10:26:53 GMT
Following on from earlier comments about the wider British public's interest about something that "only happens a London" - a perennial bugbear of many an average Brit...
I noticed the ITV news features sole focus was on "people you would recognise from the TV" - they said as much. An attempt to try and make the West End relatable to the masses, I suppose...
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Post by Fleance on Apr 15, 2024 10:29:59 GMT
I have it on VERY good authority that both Dear England and Mincemeat are going to Broadway in 2025. Madness, but true. Also The Motive and the Cue with both leads. are trying, but they have not yet been successful in finding a place. |
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Post by ladidah on Apr 15, 2024 11:25:14 GMT
Happy to see Operation Mincemeat win, and Mark Gatiss.
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Post by MrBraithwaite on Apr 15, 2024 11:26:04 GMT
Pleased for Sunset (haven't heard a score so celebrated by an orchestra in years, nowadays it's often very rushed), happy for Mark Gatiss, a bit mystified but pleased about Haydn Gwynne. Stranger Things over Old Friends is a joke, politics I presume. Best Musical category didn't interest me this year. Overall happy.  |
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Post by capybara on Apr 15, 2024 12:38:13 GMT
Really enjoyed watching it live via a VPN. Some hugely deserved accolades for theatre’s finest but am also of the view that Old Friends and Charlie Stemp woz robbed.
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Post by Dave B on Apr 15, 2024 12:57:10 GMT
Question for those who watched it live by VPN? Was it live live? Did you get the flubs and outtakes and all? There were two restarts at the actual show.
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Post by sophie92 on Apr 15, 2024 13:12:50 GMT
Question for those who watched it live by VPN? Was it live live? Did you get the flubs and outtakes and all? There were two restarts at the actual show. Yes, live live with the flubs and restarts (as much as a stream can be - the Official London Theatre account was posting the winners on X a few seconds before they were announced on my stream) |
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Post by capybara on Apr 15, 2024 13:13:25 GMT
Question for those who watched it live by VPN? Was it live live? Did you get the flubs and outtakes and all? There were two restarts at the actual show. Yes it was properly live. There were two moments when Hannah W had to re-record a line. We also had to sit through a 40 minute long 20 minute interval. |
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Post by sf on Apr 15, 2024 13:43:29 GMT
That NT "celebration" was a pure circle jerk of cringe. It was a bit, but look on the bright side: at least it didn't feature Kevin Spacey playing the harmonica. |
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Post by alece10 on Apr 15, 2024 13:50:40 GMT
That NT "celebration" was a pure circle jerk of cringe. It was a bit, but look on the bright side: at least it didn't feature Kevin Spacey playing the harmonica. From what I could make out it was mainly people who were singers performing, Joanna Riding, Janee Dee, Fra Fe, Adrian Lester, Calum Howells, Tracie Bennett (who was different!) and, of course, Meera Syal that famous MT singer??? Or was she the token Asian? |
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Post by aspieandy on Apr 15, 2024 13:57:38 GMT
The Guardian saying Guardian things >>>
Unclear how more Hytner and less Jamie Lloyd would help Ms Akbar's perceived imbalance. Ditto Marisha Wallace instead of Nicole S.
Imo, there is a case for other productions to be in the revival catagory (rather than The Effect), and the Almedia's King Lear would be among my contenders. Though that would mean tossing out a living woman for a very dead white bloke.
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Post by parsley1 on Apr 15, 2024 14:32:27 GMT
The Guardian saying Guardian things >>>
Unclear how more Hytner and less Jamie Lloyd would help Ms Akbar's perceived imbalance. Ditto Marisha Wallace instead of Nicole S.
Imo, there is a case for other productions to be in the revival catagory (rather than The Effect), and the Almedia's King Lear would be among my contenders. Though that would mean tossing out a living woman for a very dead white bloke.
She is really is quite sad actually Awards aren’t given for risk They are given for excellence She regrets not giving Guys and Dolls 5 stars 😂 |
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Post by shownut on Apr 15, 2024 14:38:34 GMT
The Guardian saying Guardian things >>>
Unclear how more Hytner and less Jamie Lloyd would help Ms Akbar's perceived imbalance. Ditto Marisha Wallace instead of Nicole S.
Imo, there is a case for other productions to be in the revival catagory (rather than The Effect), and the Almedia's King Lear would be among my contenders. Though that would mean tossing out a living woman for a very dead white bloke.
She is really is quite sad actually Awards aren’t given for risk They are given for excellence She regrets not giving Guys and Dolls 5 stars 😂 What a silly article. Totally whining for the sake of whining and nothing else. So THE WITCHES wasn't nominated. Boo-friggin'-hoo. At least A STRANGE LOOP was given a nom and if that doesn't scream diversity in nominations I'm not sure what else does. Btw, I loved A Strange Loop but expected it to be forgotten. Given last night's baffling and pretty awful performance by it's author/composer Michael R Jackson, I almost wished it had been. |
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Post by marob on Apr 15, 2024 15:47:04 GMT
I watched it this afternoon. Highlight was easily Tom Francis doing Sunset Boulevard. Realising he was on the steps outside was weirdlythrilling in the same way it was in the Savoy.
She seems lovely but I’m slightly baffled by the popularity of Hannah W, and the fact she’s somehow become the face of British theatre when she hasn’t done any in over a decade. I think I’d rather them get Manford back next year.
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Post by damaskanddark on Apr 15, 2024 17:09:56 GMT
Video going around on X of Hannah Waddingham telling off a photographer for telling her to show a bit of leg whilst he took a photo of her. She refused and stormed off, giving him a telling off (called him a d!ck, and asked him if he'd ask a man to do the same). Strange when the same woman sexually harassed Tom Francis on stage later that evening saying she wanted to throw her knickers at him. What if a man said that after a woman performed?
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Post by damaskanddark on Apr 15, 2024 17:10:52 GMT
I watched it this afternoon. Highlight was easily Tom Francis doing Sunset Boulevard. Realising he was on the steps outside was weirdlythrilling in the same way it was in the Savoy. She seems lovely but I’m slightly baffled by the popularity of Hannah W, and the fact she’s somehow become the face of British theatre when she hasn’t done any in over a decade. I think I’d rather them get Manford back next year. I agree. And to be honest, anything she did on stage was never that good. She is so unbelievably arrogant and obnoxious. |
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