Update: Congratulations to Dame Angela Lansbury on her first Olivier Award!
Update: Congratulations to Dame Angela Lansbury on her first Olivier Award!
#1Update: Congratulations to Dame Angela Lansbury on her first Olivier Award!
Posted: 3/9/15 at 9:04am
Update: YAY! Dame Angela took her first Olivier Awards tonight! Huge congratulations!
I doubt that she will win, but still it awesome considering that the play closed back in June. I wonder if at 89 she's oldest nominee ever. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/11458848/National-Theatre-suffers-Olivier-Awards-embarassment-as-it-picks-up-fewest-nominations-in-40-years.html
Updated On: 4/12/15 at 09:04 AM
SharoninB
Understudy Joined: 3/4/15
#2Congratulations to Dame Angela Lansbury on her first Olivier Award nomination!
Posted: 3/9/15 at 9:27pmwhy she won the TONY
#2Congratulations to Dame Angela Lansbury on her first Olivier Award nomination!
Posted: 3/9/15 at 9:33pm
Why wouldn't she win?
I don't know any of the other nominees. Who's tipped?
#3Congratulations to Dame Angela Lansbury on her first Olivier Award nomination!
Posted: 4/12/15 at 2:30pm
Well, you were wrong. She won! Yay.
#4Congratulations to Dame Angela Lansbury on her first Olivier Award nomination!
Posted: 4/12/15 at 2:36pm
Yay squared!
#5Congratulations to Dame Angela Lansbury on her first Olivier Award nomination!
Posted: 4/12/15 at 2:37pm
and I couldn't be happier about it! Congratulations to this phenomenal lady! YAY!
#6Congratulations to Dame Angela Lansbury on her first Olivier Award nomination!
Posted: 4/12/15 at 2:40pm
Wonderful! Congratulations to her!
ggersten
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#7Congratulations to Dame Angela Lansbury on her first Olivier Award nomination!
Posted: 4/12/15 at 3:06pm
It was a joy and a privilege to see her live on stage - and see not Dame Angela Lansbury but rather see Madame Arcati! Because, Ms. Lansbury was just that good.
ggersten
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#8Congratulations to Dame Angela Lansbury on her first Olivier Award nomination!
Posted: 4/12/15 at 3:38pm
Angela: This is so incredible. I simply can't believe it. I am infinitely grateful to have this baby in my hands.#oliviers
ggersten
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#9Congratulations to Dame Angela Lansbury on her first Olivier Award nomination!
Posted: 4/12/15 at 3:52pm
Someone commented that if only they had filmed the performance for television, she'd have an Emmy to go along with the Tony and Olivier!
Emma MK
Stand-by Joined: 2/28/15
#10Congratulations to Dame Angela Lansbury on her first Olivier Award nomination!
Posted: 4/12/15 at 4:02pm
Took a sneaky pic as i passed her on the red carpet lol
#11Congratulations to Dame Angela Lansbury on her first Olivier Award nomination!
Posted: 4/12/15 at 4:39pm
"Someone commented that if only they had filmed the performance for television, she'd have an Emmy to go along with the Tony and Olivier!"
- but you'd see the earpiece feeding her her lines!
kp
Understudy Joined: 8/14/04
#12Congratulations to Dame Angela Lansbury on her first Olivier Award nomination!
Posted: 4/12/15 at 4:47pm
Always some ungallant prat to spoil the party. She wasn't being fed her lines but had the earpiece for a feeling of security and for the odd cue. I assume you didn't see her performance devonian.t because anyone with a bit of theatre experience would realise there was no way she was being fed the lines.
Updated On: 4/12/15 at 04:47 PM
#13Congratulations to Dame Angela Lansbury on her first Olivier Award nomination!
Posted: 4/12/15 at 7:53pm
Ugh. devonian.t. Really? Don't be such a prat.
Speaking of prats, aparently ITV cut her acceptance speech in the broadcast, but someone was good enough to record the live stream from Covent Garden. Obviously not perfect quality, but here you go.
God, Brits are so reluctant with standing O's, aren't they? Ha. My favorite part, the gentleman approaching Dame Angela to escort her to the stage and her dismissing him until she was at the stairs.
#14Congratulations to Dame Angela Lansbury on her first Olivier Award nomination!
Posted: 4/12/15 at 8:04pm
Also...
Just a couple a Dames chillin...
ggersten
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#15Congratulations to Dame Angela Lansbury on her first Olivier Award nomination!
Posted: 4/12/15 at 10:31pm
#16Congratulations to Dame Angela Lansbury on her first Olivier Award nomination!
Posted: 4/12/15 at 10:59pm
A lovely speech. The woman is class personified.
#17Congratulations to Dame Angela Lansbury on her first Olivier Award nomination!
Posted: 4/13/15 at 12:06am
Angela is perfect. About time. The end.
#18Congratulations to Dame Angela Lansbury on her first Olivier Award nomination!
Posted: 4/13/15 at 11:49am
There is no person in the world who deserved it more than her! I was absolutely certain she would win - I had no doubt whatsoever.
#19Congratulations to Dame Angela Lansbury on her first Olivier Award nomination!
Posted: 4/13/15 at 2:22pm
On an unrelated note, why did the Oliviers give Kevin Spacey yet another chance to indulge his ego and live out his Rat Pack fantasy?
I'm predisposed to disliking him, so maybe it's just me, but his performance of Bridge Of Over Troubled Water was cringey in the extreme. Also, what did it have to do with the season's theatre? Yes, I hate-watched the entire six minutes.
#20Congratulations to Dame Angela Lansbury on her first Olivier Award nomination!
Posted: 4/14/15 at 6:26pm
I like Angela lansbury as much as most people (although maybe not as much as some on here based on the gushing) but why people say it's about time and it's so deserved is beyond me. She hasn't worked in the uk for decades, she hasn't earnt an award until now. There is every chance she would have won an olivier years ago if she had actually decided to work in the west end (she has had offers), but she hasn't.
#21Congratulations to Dame Angela Lansbury on her first Olivier Award nomination!
Posted: 4/15/15 at 10:23am
Well, in 1972 she made her West End debut in "All Over" with Peggy Ashcroft. Then in 1973 she starred in Gypsy (until 1974), and in 1975-1976 she played Hamlet's mother. And it's not true that she hadn't won any awards in London, because for example, she was the first woman to ever win the Plays and Players award for Gypsy. And frankly, I don't see what the fact that she hadn't been recently working in London has anything to do with the fact that she shouldn't have won. And what exactly were her other offers to work in London?
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