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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2019 13:54:56 GMT
Has anyone paged @emicardiff about Susan Brown? Or is she already organising her campaign... Hahaha both!! I did a dance outside work, and the builders saw. Honestly so pleased. So nice a woman, and well deserved! |
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Post by jgblunners on Mar 5, 2019 13:56:03 GMT
Unpopular opinion, but Six getting nominations instead of Hadestown is the biggest joke of the decade. It makes sense though - it's better publicity to nominate a home-grown show by a new young creative team that has worked its way up from the Fringe and touring to a long run in a West End venue rather than an American show that's been in development for years and took up space in a publicly subsidised UK theatre when it already had the commercial success for a Broadway transfer. The Oliviers will get much better press for nominating SiX and dodge any queries about whether Hadestown was really appropriate to be staged at the National. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2019 14:00:57 GMT
Hadestown was just as polarising as some of the others that didn't get nominated, whereas Six seems to get almost universal acclaim (though I thought their performance at West End Live was so dreadful it completely put me off seeing it, I am aware I'm very much in the minority!). I don't think it's particularly surprising one got nominations and the other didn't.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2019 14:24:21 GMT
I just wish they'd stop nominating groups of performers for the Best Actor or Best Supporting Actress or whatever award. They had an award in 2009 for Best Company Performance, wouldn't it just make more sense to bring it back than to keep diluting the individual categories with this "you're ALL winners!" nonsense?
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Post by Mark on Mar 5, 2019 14:27:27 GMT
I just wish they'd stop nominating groups of performers for the Best Actor or Best Supporting Actress or whatever award. They had an award in 2009 for Best Company Performance, wouldn't it just make more sense to bring it back than to keep diluting the individual categories with this "you're ALL winners!" nonsense? Yeah I agree. The nomination for all three actors from Lehman Trilogy baffles me too |
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Post by raiseitup on Mar 5, 2019 14:29:00 GMT
Is the Bridge eligible for the Oliviers?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2019 14:31:02 GMT
I just wish they'd stop nominating groups of performers for the Best Actor or Best Supporting Actress or whatever award. They had an award in 2009 for Best Company Performance, wouldn't it just make more sense to bring it back than to keep diluting the individual categories with this "you're ALL winners!" nonsense?  YOU get an Olivier! YOU get an Olivier! YOU get an Olivier! YOU get an Olivier! |
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Post by viserys on Mar 5, 2019 15:39:50 GMT
Unpopular opinion, but Six getting nominations instead of Hadestown is the biggest joke of the decade. Well, we can be unpopular together then. I loved Hadestown, but don't get the hype around Six at all. It's all just noise to me (showing my age here). Either way, I'm sure Come from away and Company will scoop up most of the awards anyway (hopefully), so it doesn't matter all that much. |
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Post by vdcni on Mar 5, 2019 15:49:02 GMT
Adam Gillen getting nominated above any of the guys from The Inheritance is perverse even for the Oliviers.
No massive surprises though the best actor and actress in a play categories look very dull but then I can't think of many who should be in there instead, Hayley Atwell is the only one I thought of but then Measure to Measure wasn't that well received. I suppose it's been a weak year, quite a few productions that looked like they might get awards - Absolute Hell or Macbeth didn't do well critically.
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Post by zephyrus on Mar 5, 2019 16:02:17 GMT
Not many surprises in the nominations for me. But Adam Gillen getting nominated for supporting actor and NONE of the boys from The Inheritance!? Come on... Quite agree, it's rather baffling - but then I've never liked Adam Gillen in anything I've seen him in. |
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Post by lynette on Mar 5, 2019 16:08:52 GMT
Of what I’ve seen I think nominations fair enough. Soller or Suchet , either ok with me. Super performances.
Silly having the three Lehman actors put together. Doesn’t make sense.
Remind me why Vanessa Redgrave?
Please Six win something!
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Post by Mark on Mar 5, 2019 16:09:25 GMT
I know it didn't make a great impression on here, but The Humans, which won the Tony for best new play, wasn't nominated either.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2019 16:10:00 GMT
Thrillednat these nominations! Highlights of course is all the love for Company, especially that Richard got in! Also, RACHEL TUCKER!! Glad to see the Six girls got in too, and Ruthie! I'm actually thrilled all around this time I think, I can't pick out a complaint on brief overlook.  |
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Post by Phantom of London on Mar 5, 2019 16:15:56 GMT
Not surprised to see Rosalie Craig nominated, but be shocked if she wins, I don’t think switching a characters gender should be award winning, if it was to be award winning it should go to the director instead. However past evidence suggests that all bets are off when it is the Olivier Committee and Stephen Sondheim.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2019 16:18:10 GMT
Rachel Tucker and Richard Fleeshman are my favourite nominations out of the bunch, just because we didn't know if they'd make it, so the fact both have, I'm thrilled!
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Post by raider80 on Mar 5, 2019 16:23:21 GMT
It's funny to think Hadestown got no love here but is the front runner for the Tony's in June. Just shows how fickle the Theatre business really is.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2019 16:25:50 GMT
It's funny to think Hadestown got no love here but is the front runner for the Tony's in June. Just shows how fickle the Theatre business really is. The Tonys are important and have clout though. The Oliviers . . well . . they aren't. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2019 16:30:48 GMT
I'll say it, these nomintions as a collective are the best bunch of nominations I've seen in a long while at the Oliviers!
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Post by Hamilton Addict on Mar 5, 2019 16:47:12 GMT
The Jungle didn't get a *single* nomination?  |
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Post by sf on Mar 5, 2019 16:47:39 GMT
Jenna Russell wuz ROBBED, I tell you. ROBBED.
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Post by vdcni on Mar 5, 2019 16:48:57 GMT
Not many surprises in the nominations for me. But Adam Gillen getting nominated for supporting actor and NONE of the boys from The Inheritance!? Come on... Quite agree, it's rather baffling - but then I've never liked Adam Gillen in anything I've seen him in. I mean Killer Joe was the only thing I've seen him in but I thought he was genuinely terrible in that and completely the wrong performance for the production as a whole. Chris Walley played a not dissimilar character in The Lieutenant Of Inishmore but was not only a hell of a lot better but more in keeping with the tone of the piece. Kier Charles is another WTF for me. His Chris Tarrant impersonation was mildly amusing (in a terrible play) but there are four actors in The Inheritance more deserving of a nomination. |
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Post by lonlad on Mar 5, 2019 16:49:34 GMT
The supporting actor in a play lineup is really strange -- Chris Walley should win it in a walk but WHERE ARE THE GUYS FROM THE INHERITANCE, all of whom were better than any of these five?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2019 16:53:35 GMT
I'll say it, these nomintions as a collective are the best bunch of nominations I've seen in a long while at the Oliviers! Oh what piffle. And I'll say it again for maximum effect Sir, what piffle! No, I take it back. That's absolute piffle! Come back and see me when you've stopped drinking.  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2019 16:58:34 GMT
The Jungle didn't get a *single* nomination? I'm really surprised they didn't get a Set nom, and I'm real confused how Caroline managed to get a Costume nomination considering how awful that Tumble Dryer looked! |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2019 17:01:10 GMT
The Jungle didn't get a *single* nomination? I'm really surprised they didn't get a Set nom, and I'm real confused how Caroline managed to get a Costume nomination considering how awful that Tumble Dryer looked! I think the costume design nomination was recognition for being able to keep that outfit and those shoes sparkling white all the time during the run. The Persil bills must have been astronomic |
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