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2025 Olivier Awards

ajh
#252025 Olivier Awards
Posted: 4/6/25 at 7:41pm

I could see Benjamin Button doing really well in NYC.As the extended run of Once proved, there’d be no problem casting the show for Broadway but I do hope Olivier winner John Dagleish and Olivier nominee Clare Foster get to recreate their work for New York audiences. This show is magical.

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EDSOSLO858
#262025 Olivier Awards
Posted: 4/6/25 at 7:51pm

ajh said: "I could see Benjamin Button doing really well in NYC.As the extended run of Once proved, there’d be no problem casting the show for Broadway but I do hope Olivier winner John Dagleish and Olivier nominee Clare Foster get to recreate their work for New York audiences. This show is magical."

The entire original London cast is coming over. All the actor-musicians make it tougher to recast. 


Well, I’ll be. That bird really did it.

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Kad
#272025 Olivier Awards
Posted: 4/6/25 at 8:40pm

Sadly, we have no actor-musicians in NYC.


"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."

Bwaygurl2
#282025 Olivier Awards
Posted: 4/6/25 at 8:55pm

Kad said: "Sadly, we have no actor-musicians in NYC."

Patti and her tuba. 

BoringBoredBoard40
#292025 Olivier Awards
Posted: 4/6/25 at 9:50pm

Owen22 said: "C4b2a3b said: "I guess I should see Giant? I see there are some tickets when I go. Anybody catch it at Royal Court?"

Yes. The thesis of Giant comes down to the bigotted dictum that anyone who is pro Palestinian is secretly anti-semitic. It's why I disliked this play very, very much and I lost respect for Nicholas Hytner who is not a fan of Jeremy Corbyn and suppisedly agreed to direct this play to kick the man when he's down. However Lithgowis brilliant in it.
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sir this is a Wendys

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Call_me_jorge
#302025 Olivier Awards
Posted: 4/6/25 at 9:54pm

EDSOSLO858 said: "ajh said: "I could see Benjamin Button doing really well in NYC.As the extended run of Once proved, there’d be no problem casting the show for Broadway but I do hope Olivier winner John Dagleish and Olivier nominee Clare Foster get to recreate their work for New York audiences. This show is magical."

The entire original London cast is coming over. All the actor-musicians make it tougher to recast.
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I’m sorry, what?


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PipingHotPiccolo
#312025 Olivier Awards
Posted: 4/6/25 at 10:00pm

Owen22 said: "C4b2a3b said: "I guess I should see Giant? I see there are some tickets when I go. Anybody catch it at Royal Court?"

Yes. The thesis of Giant comes down to the bigotted dictum that anyone who is pro Palestinian is secretly anti-semitic. It's why I disliked this play very, very much and I lost respect for Nicholas Hytner who is not a fan of Jeremy Corbyn and suppisedly agreed to direct this play to kick the man when he's down. However Lithgowis brilliant in it.
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The Palestinian people desperately deserve allies and supporters who are NOT anti-semitic. It would change the game, and I believe it will happen some day. For the time being though, we get the Roald Dahls of the world, a man who backed Palestinians via unrepentant, blatant anti-Semitism. Decades later, and its Susan Sarandon, Jeremy Corbyn and their ilk, accomplishing nothing but alienation and misery. 

Lithgow will win the Tony next year, fwiw.

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Bette's Turban
#322025 Olivier Awards
Posted: 4/6/25 at 10:05pm

Last year on this board, in one of these threads, everyone was poo pooing the possibility of a Fiddler revival.  

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Play Esq.
#332025 Olivier Awards
Posted: 4/6/25 at 11:02pm

Fiddler just locked its position for my next trip, that and a revisit to Giant (such an incredible play that I’m sure breathes better on a larger stage).  
 

 

Dreamboy3
#342025 Olivier Awards
Posted: 4/7/25 at 9:19am

I hope you like it and I hope it breathes life into in a show that is overdone. 
 

Personally, the last thing I need to see is another production of Fiddler. I’ve seen it on Broadway twice (including the Leveaux production that leaned into casting non-Jews). I’ve seen it in Yiddish. That doesn’t include junior high school, high school and regional productions and the overlong movie. 

BETTY22
#362025 Olivier Awards
Posted: 4/7/25 at 5:38pm

As they don't award score and book - are the authors awarded best musical - or does it go to the producders like at the tony awards?

NotCarylChurchill2
#372025 Olivier Awards
Posted: 4/10/25 at 2:18pm

I don't know what's standard but one of my best friends wrote the book for a musical that won Best Musical and they did get an actual trophy to keep.

chrishuyen
#382025 Olivier Awards
Posted: 4/10/25 at 2:27pm

I think the people who write book/music/lyrics for a musical get an Olivier for Best Musical, though I'm not actually sure if the producer does as well.

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binau
#392025 Olivier Awards
Posted: 4/13/25 at 3:53am

I finally saw ‘Benjamin button’. It’s a sweet scrappy show with some heart, sentiment, engaging staging/actors who play instruments, a little bit of a dark underdone at points, some lovely - sometimes beautiful - choral singing and some decent performances. 

But I think it belongs in the west end, not New York City. Somewhat like ‘standing at the sky’s edge’ (but less extreme) the show is very much in the vain of ‘big picture’ atmosphere/sentiment/emotion rather than being too concerned about the very fine details of book/music/lyric integration to tell a story with the same kind of craft of the NYC musical tradition. 

But unlike ‘standing at the sky’s edge’ I’m also not convinced there is THAT much substance musically behind the show. It’s all very generic folky music to me, with occasional magical moments but a lot of filler. The cast and staging sell it, but I don’t think it’s the kind of thing I would find much value of in a recording. 

NYC just actually had a show with a similar scrappy vibe/set with a bit of sentiment and dark (well much more dark) undertones - Swept Away - which for me was much more satisfying, especially musically. I think if Benjamin Button transferred to New York and especially Broadway it would be quickly Swept Away. 

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SteveSanders
#402025 Olivier Awards
Posted: 4/13/25 at 7:43am

It is not hard to imagine some level of audience being attracted to Benjamin Button because of its source material in a way that Swept Away could never match. How much that could help support the show in NYC remains unknown, but it might be enough to start building a base and positive word of mouth during previews.


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