Olivier Awards 2017

 Is there a specific reason why the whole ceremony isn't broadcasted live ? It felt bizarre only being able to hear about the performances, award wins and the speeches second hand on Twitter. 

The communal celebratory feeling of watching things as they happen like it is for the Tony awards is really diminished IMO.

Thing is ITV will sacrifice their adverts so they can show 45 minutes straight of football and then just do a load of adverts during half-time but of course we'd never get that with the Olivier Awards as it just wouldn't get the same amount of views. Shame

Yeah I know it's not the same you can probably tell from my tone that I'm just a bit bitter 😂 apologies!

I am really pleased

Having said the above

That

The Glass Menagarie

And

Half A Sixpence got nothing

Let Andrew Wright be bitter, he should of been nominated, and the fact he wasn't is a joke. I predicted him to be the overall winner before the nominations even came out. Half a Sixpence got seriously snubbed in at least two catagories with nominations.

The whole ceremony was broadcast live in its entirety on Magic Radio.

Artistic director of the Royal Court Vicky Featherstone has spoken about how the Olivier Award win for Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour means that "change is finally happening".

What a pile of meaningless
sh*t

Parsley, I have been on the plays panel and I agree with a lot of what you say: puzzled faces as the list came 'back' from the 'industry' as it contained stuff no one had nominated, no discussion formally and no indication of how the voting was scrutinised, but although the free tix were undeniably something, like winning the lottery, I and my fellow 'lays' and I suspect you too, had put in our time and had to show we had patronised theatre to a considerable degree. My fellow 'lays' were very knowledgeable and enthusiastic theatre goers. The winners in the plays categories have often disappeared by the time the awards come round as have the productions they were in and are never to be seen again. I think this irritated the industry because there was no way of capitalising on the publicity of the awards. This is of course very different from the film industry where an award can encourage a further release, DVD sales and internet viewings, not to mention more work for those involved. So I felt then and I do now that they look to award a show that is ongoing and so the award can be used to pull in the punters in the future publicity. This year they have certainly done that with Harry P. I haven't seen this show. I thought it was for children so I didn't book and now I can't honestly be bothered. It seems to have been well received and is no doubt a good production. But there is that teensy weensy nagging voice in the back of my mind.

That and if they'd have given it to Sheridan or Glenn, they'd still be awarding people that didn't perform for a sustained period of time. So it was either give the award to someone that had had notable absences, or an ensemble of women which would have been far more ridiculous.

Hardly. No-one is entitled to a nomination. It's rather childish to thank people for their "support" in this tough time. He needs to get over himself! He's been nominated before, and I'm sure he'll get nominated again. To be so vocally disappointed is wholly ungracious and rather insulting to the other nominees. 

As for Sixpence not being invited to perform - of course it wasn't invited. It wasn't nominated!

Could not agree more with this if I tried!!

Going on a Sixpence rant unrelated to anyone on this board!! Anthony Drewe rather weirdly decided to express his own disappointment at not being invited to the awards on the actual day of them, tweeting the awards themselves: "Three nominations for Half A Sixpence but do the writers get invited? No, of course they don't - they only wrote it". Don't personally think this was the correct time or place, and cue endless retweets from anyone and everyone tweeting what an outrage it was. And George Stiles, his writing partner, happened to be at the awards anyway as his husband is Hugh Vanstone, so it all comes across as sour grapes to me. Also - the 3 nominations were for acting. Sure, he gave them the material, but there were no creative nominations and the cast weren't performing (for the exact good reasons as mrmusicals mentioned above). So why should he be invited?

I must say, the creatives of Half A Sixpence have really not handled themselves well over this "ordeal", totally ungracious. It's hardly like either of them are being snubbed. Exactly as mrmusicals said, Andrew has been nominated before and will be nominated again, Stiles & Drewe have won Best New Musical before! And they will have many nominations ahead of them I'm sure. They're coming across, to me, as rather spoiled. They are all pretty successful in their fields, awards/nominations are not the be all and end all! For what good reason would the Olivier's have for purposefully 'snubbing' the show? It just wasn't their year! 

As for the acting categories, well the supporting performances faced stiff competition that they just couldn't beat, and Charlie Stemp will most surely have his time. How old is he - 22/23?! Christ, he's got his whole life ahead of him! I always dislike the whole being "robbed" of an award that never belonged to anyone that fans seem adopt (especially on twitter). And it's also rather insulting towards, in this instance, a completely deserving winner who gave a performance more than worthy of award-winning.

Unnecessary rant over - the creatives would do well to learn from the graciousness of the cast! 

Right now I'm in the correct thread...

I don't really have a horse in this race, having managed comparativly few London trips in the last year. But I DO have a Groundhog, and I'm glad he got the awards he deserved.