[NEohioPAL]Lawrence Olivier Award Nominations From Whatsonstage.com

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Hi!

I received this today and thought everyone might want to take a look:

Cindi Verbelun



This is a special edition of the Whatsonstage.com Email News - we knew you
wouldn't want to wait for the latest information on this year's Laurence
Olivier Awards. The nominees, across 23 categories, are announced today -
with a few new and revised categories.

After last year's complete omission of a Best New Musical category, this
year sees extremely strong contention from Bombay Dreams, Chitty Chitty Bang
Bang, Our House and Taboo - though, notably, *not* Queen's We Will Rock You
which has proved one of this year's biggest blockbusters despite its
critical panning.

Company-wise, there's good news for the National Theatre, dominating once
again this year with 21 nominations in total, as well as for the Donmar
Warehouse, which has received nine nominations.

Log onto Whatsonstage.com now, where you'll find a full list of the 2003
Laurence Olivier nominations and, posted shortly, our in-depth news
analysis - that's at http://www.whatsonstage.com . Winners for this year's
Oliviers will be announced on Friday, 14 February 2003 at the Lyceum
Theatre.

In the meantime, you can still cast your own vote for the best of the past
year's theatre in our own Whatsonstage.com Theatregoers' Choice Awards. Over
13,000 theatregoers have already voted in the only London theatre awards in
which the audience is the ultimate judge. Voting closes on 31 January 2003,
with winners announced the first week in February.

Click here to vote or view the latest tallies -
http://www.whatsonstage.com/dl/page.php?page=awards&yr=2003


As for the Oliviers, here are the contenders in some of the main
categories....

BEST ACTRESS

- Anita Dobson for FROZEN at the Cottesloe
- Clare Higgins for VINCENT IN BRIXTON at the Cottesloe and Wyndham's
- Gwyneth Paltrow for PROOF at the Donmar Warehouse
- Emily Watson for UNCLE VANYA at the Donmar Warehouse


BEST ACTOR

- Michael Gambon for A NUMBER at the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs at the Royal
Court
- Simon Russell Beale for UNCLE VANYA at the Donmar Warehouse
- Mark Rylance for TWELFTH NIGHT at Shakespeare's Globe
- David Tennant for LOBBY HERO at the Donmar Warehouse and New Ambassadors


BEST ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL (OR ENTERTAINMENT)

- Janie Dee for MY ONE AND ONLY at the Piccadilly
- Joanna Riding for MY FAIR LADY at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane
- Elaine Stritch for ELAINE STRITCH AT LIBERTY at The Old Vic
- Sarah Wildor for CONTACT at the Queen's


BEST ACTOR IN A MUSICAL

- Tim Flavin for MY ONE AND ONLY at the Piccadilly
- Alex Jennings for MY FAIR LADY at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane
- Michael Jibson for OUR HOUSE at the Cambridge
- Euan Morton for TABOO at The Venue


BEST NEW PLAY

- THE COAST OF UTOPIA - VOYAGE, SHIPWRECK, SALVAGE by Tom Stoppard at the
Olivier
- THE YORK REALIST by Peter Gill at the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs at the
Royal Court and the Strand
- VINCENT IN BRIXTON by Nicholas Wright at the Cottesloe and Wyndham's


BEST NEW MUSICAL

- BOMBAY DREAMS music by A R Rahman, lyrics by Don Black, book by Meera Syal
based on an idea by Shekhar Kapur and Andrew Lloyd Webber at the Apollo
Victoria
- CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG music and lyrics by Richard M Sherman and Robert B
Sherman, adapted for the stage by Jeremy Sams, based on the MGM/United
Artists Motion Picture at the London Palladium
- OUR HOUSE by Tim Firth, music and lyrics by Madness at the Cambridge
- TABOO music and lyrics by Boy George, book by Mark Davies at The Venue


OUTSTANDING MUSICAL PRODUCTION

- ANYTHING GOES music and lyrics by Cole Porter, original book by PG
Wodehouse and Guy Bolton and Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse, new book by
Timothy Crouse & John Weidman at the Olivier
- OH WHAT A LOVELY WAR, Joan Littlewood's musical entertainment by Theatre
Workshop, Charles Chilton, Gerry Raffles and Members of the Original Cast at
the Open Air


BEST DIRECTOR

- Matthew Bourne for PLAY WITHOUT WORDS at the Lyttelton
- Richard Eyre for VINCENT IN BRIXTON at the Cottesloe
- Edward Hall for ROSE RAGE at the Haymarket
- Sam Mendes for TWELFTH NIGHT and UNCLE VANYA in repertory at the Donmar
Warehouse


Thanks for using Whatsonstage.com!


Kind regards,

Terri Paddock
Editorial director, Whatsonstage.com