OLIVIERS 2011: Excitement Building In The West End For Tonight's Awards!

There's just a few hours left before this year's Olivier Awards begin, and the excitement - and tension - is mounting!

The nominees are already on their way to the Theatre Royal Drury Lane to run through their dress rehearsal for tonight's ceremony. Best Actress in a Musical nominee Emma Williams tweeted: "On my way into town for the dress rehearsal. Very excited! I shall try and tweet a dress picture later on." John Owen Jones, currently playing Phantom at Her Majesty's Theatre, meanwhile, has his priorities sorted out - at least, according to BWW:UK's sport-loving editor: "Heading to Olivier dress rehearsal. Does anyone know if there's a TV backstage at Drury Lane so I can watch the rugby?" Don't worry, JOJ, Carrie's Twitter feed (@carriesparkle) has not only the latest theatre news, but the latest sports updates too...

Summer Strallen, up for Best Supporting Performance for her role as Meg in Love Never Dies, sounds like she'll be worth following on Twitter today: "Thanks so much for all your lovely tweets Tweeps. Will be tweeting lots of photos all during the day!!! Eeeeeeeee!!"

The official Twitter page of Best Musical nominee Legally Blonde is as pink, sparkly and exclamation-laden as usual: "Omigod you guys the Olivier Awards Ceremony is only hours away and we are very excited to be up for FIVE AWARDS."

Kate Golledge, formerly resident director of Best Revival nominee Sweet Charity and now on The Wizard Of Oz, tweeted: "Very excited to go to the Olivier awards tonight. Luck to all my Charity family, the Arts Ed choir and @DanielleHope26 who is presenting!"

And choreographer Andrew Wright's tweet sounds fascinating: "Wishing everyone luck tonight at the Oliviers. Especially @JoGoodwin87 [formerly understudy Charity] for her pas de deux with Barry Manilow x" - that'll be worth seeing!

Don't forget - you can follow the Olivier Awards right here on BWW:UK. Throughout the afternoon we'll have blogs from our writers and reviewers, and from 6pm there'll be a liveblog of the ceremony with UK editor Carrie Dunn. Tonight and through the week there'll be interviews with theatre folk giving their reactions to the winners and the losers. And of course, follow @BroadwayWorldUK on Twitter for the latest.