In this exciting video Musical Theatre Review’s Green Carpet host Andy Oliver chats to nominees and guests at the Olivier Awards on Sunday 10 April 2022 at London’s Royal Albert Hall (with huge thanks to Marc Jason Ali from The Fan Carpet).
This was the first time the Olivier Awards had been held as a live event for two years due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Andy interviews Kerry Ellis (Anything Goes), Ruthie Henshall (soon to be seen in Passion at the Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester), Samantha Barks (Frozen), Olly Dobson and Hugh Coles (Back To The Future – The Musical), Glen Ballard, Bob Gale and Alan Silvestri (creators of Back To The Future – The Musical), Ian Shaw (The Shark Is Broken writer and actor), presenter Ranj Singh, Omari Douglas (Constellations, Cabaret), Clint Dyer, Gabrielle Brooks and Arinzé Kene (director and stars of Get Up Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical) and Miles Anthony Daley, Ben Norris and Nic Doodson (The Choir Of Man).
Not only that, Andy spoke to Life Of Pi’s leading actor Hiran Abeysekera, playwright Lolita Chakrabarti and puppeteers Fred Davis, Daisy Franks, Romina Hytten, Tom Larkin, Habib Nasib Nader, Tom Stacy and Scarlet Wilderink (all of whom went on to win Olivier Awards).
The biggest winner of the night was Cabaret, a revival of the 1966 Kander and Ebb musical which has transformed the West End’s Playhouse Theatre into the ‘Kit Kat Club’ to critical acclaim. The show won seven of the 11 categories it was nominated in, including the Magic Radio Best Musical Revival.
Life Of Pi celebrated five wins (including Best New Play). Lolita Chakrabarti’s stage adaptation of the bestselling novel began life in Sheffield in 2019 and is currently playing at the Wyndham’s Theatre.
The coveted Mastercard Best New Musical award was given to Back To The Future – The Musical, a new stage adaptation of the hit 1985 sci-fi film currently playing at the Adelphi Theatre.
The Noël Coward/Geoffrey Johnson Award for Best Entertainment or Comedy Play went to Pride And Prejudice* (*sort of), a comedic, all-female retelling of the Jane Austen classic first seen in Glasgow.
Elsewhere, renowned Broadway costume designer Catherine Zuber was awarded Best Costume Design for her work on Moulin Rouge! The Musical, Kathleen Marshall won Best Theatre Choreography for Anything Goes (which she also directed) and Simon Hale received the award for Best Original Score or New Orchestrations for Get Up Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical.
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