‘Sunset Boulevard’ has received 11 nominations for the Olivier Awards 2024 with Mastercard.
Hannah Waddingham will host the annual ceremony when it returns on Sunday April 14
The classic Andrew Lloyd Webber musical was revived at the Savoy Theatre last year for a 16-week run with Pussycat Dolls star Nicole Scherzinger in the leading role of a faded Hollywood actress and is now leading the nominations for the annual ceremony.
The show has been nominated for Best Musical Revival, and the ‘Don’t Cha’ hitmaker – who shared the role on an alternate basis with former ‘Wicked’ actress Rachel Tucker – has been nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical, whilst her co-stars Tom Francis and David Thaxton have been nominated in the categories of Best Actor in a Leading Role and Best Actor in a Supporting Role respectively.
Grace Hodgett Young has also received a nod in the category of Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Musical, but will face competition from Zoe Roberts from ‘Operation Mincemeat’, Amy Trigg for ‘The Little Big Things’ and Eleanor Worthington-Cox – who became the youngest-ever recipient of an Olivier in 2012 when she and the other young actresses playing the title role in ‘Matilda the Musical’ scooped the prestigious award at the age of 10 – for her part in ‘Next to Normal’.
The musical – which faces competition from ‘Groundhog Day’, ‘Hadestown’ and ‘Guys and Dolls’ in its category – has also received nods for Best Sound Design, Outstanding Musical Contribution, Best Set Design, Best Lighting Design whilst choreographer Fabian Aloise is up for Best Theatre Choreographer and Jamie Lloyd is up for the Sir Peter Hall Award for Best Director.
Elsewhere, ‘Operation Mincemeat’, ‘The Little Big Things’ ‘Next To Normal’ and ‘A Strange Loop’ are have all received nods in the category of Mastercard Best New Musical, whilst ‘Dear England’, ‘The Hills Of California’, ‘The Motive And The Cue’ and ‘Till the Stars Come Down’ are all up for The Londoner Award for Best New Play.
The nominees for Best Actress in a Play are Laura Donnelly for ‘The Hills Of California’, Sophie Okonedo for ‘Medea’, Sarah Jessica Parker for ‘Plaza Suite’, Sheridan Smith for ‘Shirley Valentine’ and Sarah Snook for ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’.
If the former ‘Sex and the City’ star – who started her career in the tile role of Broadway musical ‘Annie’ in the 1970s and returned to The Great White Way in a production of ‘Plaza Suite’ before bringing…
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