Congrats Book of Mormon on the Olivier Award Win

[Simon Damon]

Posted: 4/13/14 at 6:58pm

It won 4 big awards including best actor supporting actor chorography and musical

[busylizzie238]

Posted: 4/13/14 at 8:44pm

I was surprised it won choreography, apart from the tap number there isn't all that much dancing in it. But definitely the other awards were well deserved.

[Phantom of London]

Posted: 4/14/14 at 9:06am

Congratulations to ALL who won last night, a tremendous win for everyone.

Book of Mormon has joined the rare role of honour to win the elusive best musical for both the Tony and Oliver, which is a tremendous win.

But however big congratulations to Almedia who had 2 big wins, great to see the smaller feeder productions theatres get somethings.

[DeNada]

Posted: 4/14/14 at 10:24am

Two big wins for the Almeida? It pretty much swept the board with Chimerica and Ghosts! Did you mean two big _winners_?

In reference to your comment about feeder theatres, going back ten years, Best Play originated at:

Edinburgh Festival - Blackbird
Royal Exchange Manchester - On the Shore of the Wide World
Theatre Royal Plymouth - A Disappearing Number
National Theatre of Scotland - Black Watch
Theatre 503 - The Mountaintop
Royal Court - Clybourne Park
National - Curious Incident, Collaborators, History Boys, The Pillowman (although technically that premiered at the Finborough!)

None of them opened directly in the commercial West End.

[Phantom of London]

Posted: 4/14/14 at 11:34am

^That's exactly what I meant, but might not included the National and thank you for the list, which I didn't know, is there anymore? When these awards go to these small producing houses, it must mean so much to them, all the thankless hours that they put in, which is often coupled with threatened grant cuts (if they have any, in the first place) and these sometimes are imposed, as a certain section of society deem their work as irrelevant. ~These people that work in theses theatres, often battle against the odds to get these shows out there, for the public pleasure, so when they are awarded with a small statue with Laurence Olivier on it, I am sure this tells very little what theses small producing houses have to go through to get that award, but sure does vindicate all that hard work put in from the Chief Executive to the volunteers selling programmes.

These are the real deserved winners.