The game GiantWho portrays the author for children Roald Dahl in the middle of an outcry on his anti -Semitism, triumphed at the Olivier Awards during a starry evening at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
US Star John Lithgow won the price for best actor for his performance as Dahl, Elliot Levey won the best support actor (for publisher Tom Maschler) and Mark Rosenblatt received the best new piece award.
Giant is the beginnings of Rosenblatt as playwright and brought him a double victory to the Critics' Circle Theater Awards In March, where he won for the most promising playwright and the best new game. The giant ran last year to the London Royal Court and will be transferred to the West end Later this month, Lithgow and Levey taking their roles.
Lithgow thanked the public for having “welcoming me in England” and said “it is not always easy when you welcome an American in the middle of you”, stressing that this moment was “more complicated than usual” for relations between the United States and the United Kingdom.
He remembered having seen the “amazing performance” of Laurence Olivier to the old Vic in the room Dance From death to the late 1960s. “I thought of him and I stole him just about all the performances I have ever played on stage,” he added.
The total of Giant of Three Olivier Awards on Sunday evening was equaled by two musicals: The curious case of Benjamin Button And Fiddler on the roof.
The first, based on the news of F Scott Fitzgerald and with music and words by Jethro Compton and Darren Clark, won the best musical and exceptional musical contribution (for the orchestrations and arrangements of Clark and Mark Aspinall) and the best musical actor (John Dagleish as hero who is born of each day). Dagleish, who won an Olivier Award in 2015 for depicting Ray Davies in the afternoon Sunny Musical Kinks, said that his deceased mother was his “plus one” on this occasion. He dedicated the price to her and said “she would have liked” the curious case of Benjamin Button.
Previously staged On the Marais site in Southwark Playhouse in 2019It now takes place in the West End of the Ambassadors theater which recently opened its own advertising on site, the marinated crab, named after a watering hole in the Cornwall in the musical.
Fiddler on the roof, which received a Five star guardian review At the Regent's Park Open Theater and is transferred to the Barbican next month, had received a total of 13 Olivier appointmentsequaling a Record established by the musical Hamilton in 2018.
The classic musical – composed of Jerry Bock, with words by Sheldon Harnick and Joseph Stein's book – won nine Tony Awards in 1965 for his original Broadway production. The new production of director Jordan Fein won the olive trees for the best musical renewal, the best Set design (Tom Scutt) and the best sound design (Nick Lidster).
The ceremony, which celebrates the cream of the London theater, was organized by the actors Knight of BeverleyA winner at the 2023 Awards, and Billy Porter, who features the master of ceremonies in Cabaret. It opened its doors with Knight and Porter, performing Luck be a lady of musical guys and dolls.
Romola Garai achieved the unusual feat of fighting to win the prize for best actress in a support role. She had been nominated twice in this category, recognizing her performances by giant and The years.
The latter won his victory. Based on the Memoirs of the Nobel Prize, winner of the Annie Ernaux Prize, the years (at Almeida Theatre) also received the prize for the best director, with the Norwegian Theater-Maker Eline Arbo Become the sixth woman to win this prize at the olive trees.
Garai said that the years had been the “greatest privilege of my life” and thanked “My family of Annies” (all the actors share the main role of Annie and play support characters). She called Arbo a “genius” who “put the life of all women on stage”. Garai also thanked her husband for her support when she faced the two productions.
Arbo previously led the years to Amsterdam International TheaterThe global renowned company which also organized the modern version of Robert Icke of Sophocles Oedipus Several years ago.
Oedipus, which Icke led with a new West end Cast, won the best renewal and best actress for Lesley Manville in the role of Jocasta.
ICKE praised his “24 carat team”, including producer Sonia Friedman, who, according to him, said that the industry was “lucky to have”. (Garai, too, thanked Friedman, who produced the years.) The experience of the production of Oedipus had been joyful for the whole, added ICKE, who observed in as “incest really bringing people together”. Manville noted ICKE “Care and Precision” as director of his speech.
The prize for the best actress of a musical went to Imelda Staunton for her roof turn Hello, Dolly! at Palladium. It was the 14th nomination and fifth victory of Staunton to the olive trees. The most appreciated person in the history of Olivier prices is the constable Paule lighting designer, who received 17 nominations, and won his sixth prize for Oliver! (Shared with Ben Jacobs). Constable announced his retirement from the theater earlier this year.
The prize for the best theater choreographer went to Christopher Wheeldon For the bio-drama of Michael Jackson MJ the musical, the best costume design went to Gabriella Slade for the trains in Rolle Starlight ExpressAnd Mutilation won the prize for best actress in a supporting role in a musical for Natasha, Pierre and the great comet of 1812.
Layton Williams, on the other hand, became Olivier's first winner of history to be recognized for having portrayed an iceberg (he took the best support actor in a musical for the Zany Titanic). Festen by Mark-Anthony Turnage at the Royal Opera House won two awards: the best production of the new opera and the exceptional success in Opera (for Tenor Allan Clayton).
The national theater, the former Vic and the Colosseum were among the main places whose appointments of the shows have not resulted in a victory, although Rufus Norris received a special prize for its 10 -year term as director of the National.
Created in 1976, the Olivier Awards are supervised by the London Society Theater. The winners are chosen by a team of industry personalities, stage lighting and public members who love the theater.
