The Laurence Olivier Awards 2009 — Page 7

ooh yeh! No awards for Breif Encounter or Zorro...! Don't be too uspet Mama

i could get into a big argument about the SA Tony award for choreography Weez (come on..Matthew Bourne/Stephen Mear for the wonder that was Mary Poppins' choreography!?) but i feel as it's your birthday, i'll glance over that comment :)

Priscilla on the 25th is becoming a bit of a BWW: WE outing - Mama, exedore, hotjohn and myself all going on the same night. Anyone else care to join us?

I really want to go on the 25th but have no stupid money =( Have fun to those going!

Scripps, I'm sure Weez is willing to go to a play =P Even though we all know how much she hates them
We should do another one though =)

"I hadn't heard of Black Watch before tonight, what was it like? It was in the play category but won choreography?"

A play about a Scottish regiment serving in Iraq. Their parade ground marches turned into something like Stomp or Tap-Dogs.

Jumping up and down, a Tony award should not win.

Step in Time alone craps all over SA. Not to mention the ingenious Supercal signing and the clever Hello Dolly homage throughout Jolly Holiday. Anyone?

Hell, it goes back to the patriotic thing; would *you* give an American award to a British show when there's an American show that's also deserving?

Well, maybe I won't say "SPRING AWAKENING DEFINITELY DESERVED THE TONY!", but I will strongly disagree with anyone who says the choreography was rubbish and/or not worthy of an award (note: there is a difference between "the" and "an"). :3

Tell you what, with Priscilla, Spring Awakening, and A Little Night Music, next year looks like the musical categories might actually be interesting again. Can't wait! :3

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Also, will Oliver be included in next years awards or was it completely snubbed for nominations this year?

Scripps, I can see what you're saying however there is no way in the world that the Olivier committee will deem what seems to be Andrew Lloyd Webber's most promising work in nearly a decade un-award-worthy.

Even if its complete trash, it will still be nominated.

Oliver! is eligible for next year. But I'm hoping it doesn't stand a chance against A Little Night Music. I tell ya, Jessie Buckley *really* lucked out by not winning IDA!

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i can hardly see a revival of a revival winning Best Revival of a Musical! Maybe at the WOS awards, but not at the Oliviers!

The only reason SA won the choreography Tony was because they were so hung up on how 'inovative' and 'new' and 'different' the show was. Hell i love the show (gotta love dodgy DVD's) but seriously, if anything deserved anything out of any category that year, it was Mary Poppins' choreography. Snubbing Legally Blonde was one thing, but when they snubbed Mary Poppins, Sam = :@

Oh and I don't want Oliver to win Best Revival, I was just wondering whether it was included this year or next. I don't see it winning any awards at all next season - it doesn't deserve or need them

As possibly evidenced by my glee at Black Watch and War Horse beating out two years worth of musicals when it comes to choreography, I personally enjoy it when movement is brought to the stage in different ways. You may not like the Spring Awakening choreography yourselves, but what's so bad about rewarding something different that does the job it's supposed to do, and does it so very well? Unless there are any war plays with excellent physicality due this year (why not make it a hat-trick? ), I shall be cheering for Spring Awakening to win choreography at the Oliviers next year. Even though SOLT have proved unkind to transplanting US theatre directly into the West End, I shall be cheering. :3

And I can't find a Night Music thread to jack, so I'll just have a mini-diversion and say I liked it very much. It was lovely, and I found it very charming. I didn't want to like Jessie, but I did, the rest of the audience couldn't get enough of Maureen Lipman, and I thought Kaisa Hammarlund was smashing. Her continued association with the Menier is a real reward for audience members. :3 It's nice to see that Trevor Nunn still does know how to direct a musical, and I enjoyed it a whole bunch. :3

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Thank you for your efforts tonight Carrie. Did they feed you well - did you get what the nominees were having?