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HALF A SIXPENCE and SHOW BOAT are both in the running for UK Theatre Awards as are #StageFaves Charlie Stemp, Emmanuel Kojo, Rebecca Trehearn, Clare Burt, Jennifer Saayeng, Nina Toussaint-White and Allyson-Ava Brown. Full shortlists for the 2016 awards, presented at a ceremony on Sunday 9 October, are announced today...
2016
Many #StageFaves make the running in this year's third annual West End Wilma Awards, for which the nominations are announced today ahead of public voting opening on 2 September 2016 and the awards ceremony on 4 November 2016.
2016
Many #StageFaves make the running in this year's third annual West End Wilma Awards, for which the nominations are announced today ahead of public voting opening on 2 September 2016 and the awards ceremony on 4 November 2016.
Not a surprise at all but no less welcome for it. After sweeping the board at last night's Tony Awards with 11 big wins, including Best Musical, Lin-Manuel Miranda's Broadway mega-hit HAMILTON confirms its West End transfer today. Co-produced by Cameron Mackintosh in London, it will reopen Mackintosh's recently acquired Victoria Palace in October 2017, after a major refurbishment o of the theatre. Big question: will Miranda or any of the Tony-winning Broadway cast accompany the show to London?...
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In case you didn't stay up ALL night (and we're pretty sure some of you did), you can watch Cynthia Erivo's full Tony Awards acceptance speech here and have a quick squizz through some of our #StageFaves tweets from the night...
2016
In case you didn't stay up ALL night (and we're pretty sure some of you did), you can watch Cynthia Erivo's full Tony Awards acceptance speech here and have a quick squizz through some of our #StageFaves tweets from the night...
How proud and excited are British #StageFaves fans?! At last night's Tony Awards, Cynthia Erivo scooped Best Actress in a Musical for her Broadway debut in The Color Purple, as we KNEW she would, and Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton, which swept the board with 11 awards including Best Musical, is coming to London...
How proud and excited are British #StageFaves fans?! At last night's Tony Awards, Cynthia Erivo scooped Best Actress in a Musical for her Broadway debut in The Color Purple, as we KNEW she would, and Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton, which swept the board with 11 awards including Best Musical, is coming to London...
All the buzz from the West End opening night of Funny Girl, starring Sheridan Smith amongst a company of #StageFaves.
Kinky Boots, the huge-hearted, high-heeled hit, announces the opening of a new booking period, with tickets now available until Saturday 14 January. Since winning the 2016 Olivier Award for Best New Musical, Kinky Boots is now the winner of every major Best Musical award.
My Theatre Mates, also founded by Stage Faves creator Terri Paddock, today announces the winners of the second-annual Also Recognised Awards. What overlap is there with the Stage Faves database? And with a certain other prize-giving held earlier this week?
My Theatre Mates, also founded by Stage Faves creator Terri Paddock, today announces the winners of the second-annual Also Recognised Awards. What overlap is there with the Stage Faves database? And with a certain other prize-giving held earlier this week?
2016
We've rounded up backstage pics of your musical #StageFaves winners at the 2016 #OlivierAwards. Plus, watch the video of winners' reactions on the night.
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We've created special merchandise to celebrate the #OlivierAwards success of #StageFaves performers including Imelda Staunton, Lara Pulver, Matt Henry, David Bedella and all the 2016 musical nominees.
Our founder Terri Paddock was on heading mission control for @StageFaves live-tweeting of the 2016 #OlivierAwards - while also juggling awards coverage of additional non-musical categories for her other sites @MyTheatreMates and @TerriPaddock. Here she rounds up the key tweets as they happened across the three accounts plus the official @OlivierAwards Twitter feed.
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UPDATED: Winners' conversion rate now added to this story... There are 13 musical productions in the 2016 Olivier Awards running, all but three of them still running (or, in the case of Bugsy Malone, soon to be returning). Brush up on the tallies and #GetSocial with them all here.
Amongst the nominated musicals, the big winners at the 2016 #OlivierAwards were Gypsy, Kinky Boots and In the Heights. Sadly, Guys and Dolls, Mrs Henderson Presents, Bend It Like Beckham and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers all went home empty-handed.
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Here's a reminder of all the full shortlists in the 2016 Olivier Awards, with a Stage Faves focus on musicals. Plus, watch Michael Ball and Imelda Staunton read the nominations at the star-studded nominations event in February.
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UPDATED: Imelda Staunton wins Best Actress in a Musical for Gypsy. Brush up on all all you need to know about Imelda and other worthy contenders Laura Pitt-Pulford, Natalie Dew, Sophie Thompson and Tracie Bennett.
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UPDATED: Matt Henry wins Best Actor in a Musical for Kinky Boots. Brush up on all you need to know about Matt and other worthy nominees David Haig, Jamie Parker, Ian Bartholomew and Kinky Boots' co-star Killian Donnelly.