![]() The black-tie ceremony at London’s Royal Albert Hall was the first full Oliviers show since 2019. Getty ImagesĪ stage adaptation of a time-travelling 1980s film favourite, Back to the Future - The Musical, was named Best New Musical. Olly Dobson performs with the cast of 'Back to the Future - The Musical' during The Olivier Awards 2022 at the Royal Albert Hall on Sunday. Hiran Abeysekera was named the Best Actor in a Play as title character Pi, while - in a first - the supporting actor prize went to seven performers who collectively play the show’s puppet tiger.įred Davis, one of the seven, said it was “a landmark moment for puppetry”. Life of Pi, adapted from Yann Martel’s best-selling novel about a boy adrift at sea with a tiger, was voted Best New Play. “It’s my worst nightmare and my biggest dream all at once,” she said. ![]() ![]() Liza Sadovy and Elliot Levey won supporting performer awards for the same production, which continues its London run with new leads - and is rumoured to be Broadway-bound.īuckley, who was praised by Redmayne as “one of the greats”, appeared overwhelmed to have won. Redmayne and Buckley won lead acting prizes for their roles as the Emcee and Sally Bowles in a production of Cabaret that transformed London’s Playhouse Theatre into the Kit Kat Club in 1930s Berlin. Literary adaptation Life of Pi took five awards, including Best New Play.Ĭabaret was named Best Musical Revival at the ceremony, which saw the Oliviers - Britain's equivalent of Broadway's Tony Awards - return to live collective prize-giving after a three-year break imposed by the coronavirus pandemic. An intimate, sold-out production of Cabaret was the big winner at Sunday’s Olivier Awards, taking seven prizes including acting trophies for its high-voltage stars, Eddie Redmayne and Jessie Buckley.
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