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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2016 14:55:43 GMT
Amber Riley will be singing there tonight!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2016 19:17:53 GMT
The cast of Dreamgirls look great!!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2016 19:19:49 GMT
Sheridan looks amazing here, so healthy!! She looks very different
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Post by couldileaveyou on Nov 13, 2016 19:28:20 GMT
Glenn Close is there. Does this mean she's the winner?
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Post by mrbarnaby on Nov 13, 2016 19:30:03 GMT
The most famous people win these awards so yes, pretty sure Glenn will win.
they should be re-named The Starfuc*er Awards.
Still not over Nicole Kidman beating Denise Gough last year- an outrage.
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Post by mrbarnaby on Nov 13, 2016 19:30:26 GMT
Glenn is looking fab too Glenn Close is there. Does this mean she's the winner? |
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Post by couldileaveyou on Nov 13, 2016 19:32:57 GMT
I mean, to be fair, she also deserves it. But yes, these awards are the worst.
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Post by d'James on Nov 13, 2016 20:02:01 GMT
Glenn looks like she's matriculating.
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Post by theatremadness on Nov 13, 2016 20:55:42 GMT
Looks like the awards had a higher budget than King Lear!
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Post by couldileaveyou on Nov 13, 2016 21:30:42 GMT
Well, Glenn actually won!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2016 22:07:55 GMT
And Andrew Lloyd Webber was there, which explains Superstar winning!
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Post by DuchessConstance on Nov 13, 2016 22:17:10 GMT
Billie won best actress! Finally, some sense.
So much bitchery on Twitter over best director.
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Post by mrbarnaby on Nov 13, 2016 22:36:53 GMT
Well yes, it's ludicrous. He won only because he's famous. Billie won best actress! Finally, some sense. So much bitchery on Twitter over best director. |
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Post by couldileaveyou on Nov 13, 2016 22:39:04 GMT
These awards are so shameless that I can't help loving them a little.
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Post by theatreliker on Nov 13, 2016 22:41:23 GMT
Branagh has won for the Branagh Theatre season at the Garrick. Bit of an odd speech. He said he never wants to set foot in another theatre again and started smashing up the stage. Room very quiet.
I jest.
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Post by mrbarnaby on Nov 13, 2016 22:41:56 GMT
And to top it all off- Kenneth Branagh winning for his remarkable achievement in staging pedestrian and dull productions consecutively at the Garrick.
These Awards are an absolute joke. They are just given to friends of Lebedev!!
Next years Best Actess- Joan Collins for Jackie and I at the Leicester Square theatre
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Post by Marwood on Nov 13, 2016 23:02:33 GMT
Thought Billie Piper winning for Verma was fair enough, can't think of another female performance that deserved to win rather than her, although I wasn't that impressed by the actual play - but Ralph Fiennes winning for The Master Builder is a joke, I thought the whole thing was dreadful,he was far more deserving to win for Man and Superman although I guess The Old Vic hosting the awards and putting on TMB as well decided that one.
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Post by Phantom of London on Nov 14, 2016 1:31:25 GMT
Think people are getting mixed up with the What's On Stage award for awarding the most famous people surely.
Glenn Close and Jesus Christ Superstar both won the award on merit, this is more of an award for ENO and Regent"s Park Open Air if anything.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2016 3:03:04 GMT
Nope, the Evening Standard awards definitely also award the more famous nominees. Just because the winners also happen to be good doesn't mean it's not all about who they can print pictures of in... well, the Evening Standard. No one is getting mixed up here.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2016 4:00:40 GMT
Glenn winning this award does make me wonder if now it will be her or Sheridan taking the Olivier come Spring. Sheridan is an award favorite at the Oliviers but Glenn Close is Glenn Close. The great thing though is that both were amazing so it wouldn't be a shame if either of them won. Some could argue Amber Riley but if she were to win, it will be purely the performance. She is well known in the UK, sure, but not nearly enough as Glenn Close or, in the UK, as Sheridan Smith.
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Post by DuchessConstance on Nov 14, 2016 8:05:51 GMT
The ES are shameless in sucking up to famous people. If you have a fringe play on at the White Bear or something just cast the child of a celebrity, the ES will give you half of page 4.
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Post by lynette on Nov 14, 2016 11:23:33 GMT
Just read thru the awards. I confess I haven't seen much of the nominated but sad to see Helen McCrory passed over again.
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Post by martin1965 on Nov 14, 2016 13:32:27 GMT
These awards used to be almost on a par with the Oliviers but have been a joke for sometime. Plus David Attenborough is obvs brilliant and a national treasure but what the f*ckvhas he got to do with theatre!! Was it just an excuse to get William there and get media exposure. Think its days are numbered😕
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Post by kathryn on Nov 14, 2016 14:58:45 GMT
Think its days are numbered😕 Not really - as long as it continues to be a good PR exercise for the Evening Standard. That is what the show's about - it gets them national press and radio coverage, a bit on the evening news, and even occasionally a little bit of international coverage, if the person being awarded is famous enough. That is why the awards go to the most famous people who will turn up to the ceremony. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2016 15:27:22 GMT
Glenn Close, Billie Piper, dear Kenny B, Ralph Fiennes and Harry Potter? Well, find me a hooker and some cocaine and call me Frank Bough. What a bunch of shocker wins!
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Post by DuchessConstance on Nov 14, 2016 16:12:17 GMT
If I were Simon Stephens or similar I'd be busily stealing that line and squirrelling it away for future use.
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Post by wickedgrin on Nov 14, 2016 16:17:17 GMT
Glenn Close, Billie Piper, dear Kenny B, Ralph Fiennes and Harry Potter? Well, find me a hooker and some cocaine and call me Frank Bough. What a bunch of shocker wins! Another "laugh out loud" post from Ryan!! |
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Post by mrbarnaby on Nov 14, 2016 21:18:43 GMT
The award that Attenborough won is just a joke. Beyond theatre?
Why have a theatre awards and then give an award that isn't related at all.
Next years award will probably go to Mary Berry for services to baking.
Glenn C will win the Olivier. There was an actress playing a role as well as it will ever be played. I could never relax watching Sheridan because I was dreading the next number starting and her murdering it.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2016 22:00:04 GMT
. Glenn C will win the Olivier. There was an actress playing a role as well as it will ever be played. I could never relax watching Sheridan because I was dreading the next number starting and her murdering it. Funny, that's exactly how I felt at the Coliseum! ;-) |
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