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Marianne Elliott’s critically-acclaimed gender-swapped version of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Company leads the individual production nominations for the 64th Evening Standard Theatre Awards.
Just three weeks after the show’s opening night, Company has been nominated for the award for best musical alongside Caroline, or Change, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Fun Home and Hamilton.
The show’s leading lady Rosalie Craig is in the running for Best Musical Performance. She will be up against Sharon D Clarke (Caroline, or Change), Arinzé Kene (Misty), Kelli O’Hara (The King and I) and Adrienne Warren (Tina).
Elliott will join Tina’s Phyllida Lloyd as genre representatives in the Best Director category where they will be up against Stephen Daldry (The Inheritance), Robert Hastie (The York Realist) and Ian Rickson (Translations).
Company’s fourth nomination is for Bunny Christie for Best Design – the only musical in the category will compete against The Jungle’s Miriam Buether, Girls and Boys’ Es Devlin, Translations’ Rae Smith and Jan Versweyweld’s Network.
Hamilton’s Jamael Westman is the only musical theatre performer recognised with a nomination in the Emerging Talent Award category. He will compete against Rona Morison for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; Debris Stevenson for Poet in da Corner; and director Roy Alexander Weise for Nine Night.
The 2018 awards will be presented at a ceremony hosted by the owner of the Evening Standard Evgeny Lebedev and co-hosts Anna Wintour, Claire Foy and Idris Elba at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on Sunday 18 November. The ceremony will be presented by Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
The complete shortlist:
Best Actor
Bryan Cranston – Network, National Theatre (Lyttelton)
Ralph Fiennes – Antony and Cleopatra, National Theatre (Olivier)
Ian McKellen – King Lear, Minerva Chichester & Duke of York’s
Colin Morgan – Translations, National Theatre (Olivier)
Kyle Soller – The Inheritance, Young Vic & Noël Coward Theatre
Natasha Richardson Award
Laura Linney – My Name Is Lucy Barton, Bridge Theatre
Carey Mulligan – Girls and Boys, Royal Court
Cecilia Noble – Nine Night, National Theatre (Dorfman)
Sophie Okonedo – Antony and Cleopatra, National Theatre (Olivier)
Lia Williams – The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Donmar Warehouse
Best Play
Home, I’m Darling – Laura Wade, National Theatre (Dorfman)
The Inheritance – Matthew Lopez, Young Vic & Noël Coward Theatre
John – Annie Baker, National Theatre (Dorfman)
The Lehman Trilogy – Stefano Massini, (adapted by Ben Power), National Theatre (Lyttelton)
The Writer – Ella Hickson, Almeida
Milton Shulman Award For Best Director
Stephen Daldry – The Inheritance, Young Vic & Noël Coward Theatre
Marianne Elliott – Company, Gielgud Theatre
Robert Hastie – The York Realist, Donmar Warehouse
Phyllida Lloyd – Tina, Aldwych Theatre
Ian Rickson – Translations, National Theatre (Olivier)
Best Musical
Caroline, or Change – Minerva Chichester & Hampstead Theatre
Company – Gielgud Theatre
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie – Apollo Theatre
Fun Home – Young Vic
Hamilton – Victoria Palace
Best Musical Performance
Sharon D Clarke – Caroline, or Change, Minerva Chichester & Hampstead Theatre
Rosalie Craig – Company, Gielgud Theatre
Arinzé Kene – Misty, Bush & Trafalgar Studios
Kelli O’Hara – The King and I, Palladium
Adrienne Warren – Tina, Aldwych
Best Design
Miriam Buether – The Jungle, Young Vic & Playhouse Theatre
Bunny Christie – Company, Gielgud Theatre
Es Devlin – Girls and Boys, Royal Court
Rae Smith – Translations, National Theatre (Olivier)
Jan Versweyveld – Network, National Theatre (Lyttelton)
Charles Wintour Award For Most Promising Playwright
Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm – Br’er Cotton, Theatre503
Natasha Gordon – Nine Night, National Theatre (Dorfman)
Francis Turnly – The Great Wave, National Theatre (Dorfman)
Emerging Talent Award in partnership with Access Entertainment
Rona Morison – The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Donmar Warehouse
Debris Stevenson – Poet in da Corner, Royal Court
Chris Walley – The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Noël Coward Theatre
Roy Alexander Weise (director) – Nine Night, National Theatre (Dorfman)/Br’er Cotton, Theatre503
Jamael Westman – Hamilton, Victoria Palace
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