Hollywood stars, a Tom cat Doll and a strike play games about Gareth Southgate govern the nominations for this hour’s Olivier Awards.
Sarah Jessica Parker, Sarah Snook and Nicole Scherzinger are some of the 2024 nominees, together with James Norton, Andrew Scott and David Tennant.
Singer and Tom cat Dolls big name Scherzinger is within the operating for her starring function within the revival of Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber‘s musical Sundown Side road, which leads the Olivier Awards fee with 11 nominations in overall.
Nicole Scherzinger, pictured acting on the King’s Coronation, is nominated for her efficiency in Sundown Side road. Pic: PA
Expensive England, which tells the tale of Southgate and the boys’s soccer crew’s advance throughout the 2022 Global Cup, follows with 9 nods – together with highest untouched play games and highest actor for Joseph Fiennes’s portrayal of the chief.
The sports activities drama, which is a fictionalised account of the struggles and successes of the crew, additionally gained nods for Gina McKee’s portrayal of crew psychologist Pippa Grange and Will Near’s flip as Harry Kane within the supporting actress and actor sections respectively.
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Fiennes, big name of TV line The Handmaid’s Story, faces festival for the most productive actor prize from Sherlock big name Mark Gatiss in The Cause And The Cue, Glad Valley’s Norton for his function in A Tiny Hour, Physician Who big name David Tennant in Macbeth and All Of Us Strangers actor Andrew Scott in Vanya.
Joseph Fiennes as Gareth Southgate in Expensive England. Pic: Marc Brenner/ Nationwide Theatre
Intercourse And The Town big name Parker is nominated for Plaza Suite, wherein she plays along her husband Matthew Broderick, and leads a star-studded line-up in the most productive actress nominations.
The division additionally contains Succession actress Snook for her efficiency in The Image Of Dorian Grey – a one-woman adaptation in which she plays 26 roles.
The alternative hopefuls for the award are Cilla big name Sheridan Smith in Shirley Valentine, The Fall actress Laura Donnelly in The Hills Of California and Lodge Rwanda actress Sophie Okonedo in Medea.
US singer Scherzinger, who performs a famed Hollywood big name fading and spiralling into psychological defect in Sundown Side road, is up for highest actress in a musical.
She faces festival from Natasha Hodgson in Operation Mincemeat, Caissie Levy in Later To Commonplace and Superstar Obese Brother big name Marisha Wallace in Guys & Dolls.
Scherzinger’s Sundown Side road co-star Tom Francis is up for the male prize, which additionally options nominations for David Cumming in Operation Mincemeat, Daniel Mays in Guys & Dolls, and Charlie Stemp in Unstable For You.
The manufacturing is up towards Tim Minchin’s Groundhog Occasion, Anais Mitchell’s Hadestown, and Frank Loesser’s Guys & Dolls in the most productive musical revival division.
Sarah Snook stars in Dorian Grey. Pic: Marc Brenner
The late Haydn Gwynne has additionally gained a posthumous nomination for highest actress in a supporting function for her efficiency in When Winston Went To Warfare With The Wi-fi.
Throughout all of the nominations, the Nationwide Theatre garnered probably the most nods thru a number of of its productions, with Expensive England, The Cause And The Cue, Until The Stars Come Unwell and The Impact all recognised throughout more than one sections.
Organisers stated the contest for nominations were “fierce during an outstanding year for theatre, with significantly more productions than last year”.
The yearly awards rite takes playground on Sunday 14 April on the Royal Albert Corridor.
