10 February 2020
Newsdesk
The 20th annual WhatsOnStage Awards take place on 1 March at the Prince of Wales Theatre, hosted by Jodie Prenger and Tom Read Wilson, and for the first time this year will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 2 hosted by Elaine Paige and Ken Bruce. Additional award presenters will be announce shortly.
Each of the 5 nominated productions for Best New Musical will perform live at the event – Bit of a Sort from Only Fools and Horses, You Will Be Found from Dear Evan Hansen, Can’t Stop the Feeling!/Roar from & Juliet, Welcome to the Rock from Come From Away, and She Used to be Mine from Waitress.
There will also be a performance of I’m Here by the cast of Curve Leicester and Birmingham Hippodrome’s production of The Color Purple, which is nominated in the Best Regional Production category, as well as two further numbers specially created for the evening. The event is co-produced by Paul Taylor-Mills.
Leading this year’s nominations is the new musical & Juliet – currently running at the Shaftesbury Theatre, with 13 nominations across acting and creative categories including nominations for leading actors Miriam-Teak Lee and Oliver Tompsett who play Juliet and Shakespeare respectively, supporting actor nominations for Jordan Luke Gage, Cassidy Janson and Melanie La Barrie, Best New Musical, Best Choreography, Best Costume Design, Best Graphic Design, Best Lighting Design, Best Set Design, Best Sound Design and Best Video Design. In the musical categories, Evita follows with 8 nominations and Mame and Waitress with 7 nominations each, and Come from Away and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat both with 5 nominations.
In the straight play categories, Best New Play is a contest between The Doctor, The Son, My Beautiful Laundrette, Life of Pi and Appropriate; and Best Play Revival nominees are Betrayal, Death of a Salesman, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Lungs and Present Laughter. The latter of these leads the play categories with 8 nominations; including Best Actor in a Play for Andrew Scott, Best Supporting Actress in a Play nominations for Sophie Thompson and Indira Varma and Best Direction for Matthew Warchus.
THE 20TH ANNUAL WHATSONSTAGE AWARD NOMINATIONS IN FULL:
BEST ACTOR IN A PLAY SPONSORED BY EDWARDIAN HOTELS
Tom Hiddleston - Betrayal
Andrew Scott - Present Laughter
Matt Smith - Lungs
Wendell Pierce - Death of a Salesman
Laurie Kynaston - The Son
BEST ACTRESS IN A PLAY SPONSORED BY TONIC THEATRE
Claire Foy - Lungs
Zawe Ashton - Betrayal
Hayley Atwell - Rosmersholm
Sharon D. Clarke - Death of a Salesman
Juliet Stevenson - The Doctor
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A PLAY
Alexander Vlahos - Peter Pan
Charlie Cox - Betrayal
Hareet Deol - My Beautiful Laundrette
Hammed Animashaun - A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Giles Terera - Rosmersholm
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A PLAY
Ria Zmitrowicz - The Doctor
Isabella Pappas - Appropriate
Monica Dolan - All About Eve
Sophie Thompson - Present Laughter
Indira Varma - Present Laughter
BEST ACTOR IN A MUSICAL SPONSORED BY DEWYNTERS
David Hunter - Waitress
Sam Tutty - Dear Evan Hansen
Jac Yarrow - Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Oliver Tompsett - & Juliet
Charlie Stemp - Mary Poppins
BEST ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL SPONSORED BY CAFÉ DE PARIS
Lucie Jones - Waitress
Katharine McPhee - Waitress
Miriam-Teak Lee - & Juliet
Tracie Bennett - Mame
Zizi Strallen - Mary Poppins
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL SPONSORED BY THE UMBRELLA ROOMS
Joe Sugg - Waitress
Jack Loxton - Dear Evan Hansen
Jordan Luke Gage - & Juliet
Oscar Conlon-Morrey - Only Fools and Horses
Jason Donovan - Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL SPONSORED BY NEWMAN DISPLAYS
Laura Baldwin - Waitress
Marisha Wallace - Waitress
Cassidy Janson - & Juliet
Melanie La Barrie - & Juliet
Rachel Tucker - Come From Away
BEST NEW PLAY SPONSORED BY TICKETMASTER
The Doctor
The Son
My Beautiful Laundrette
Life of Pi
Appropriate
BEST PLAY REVIVAL SPONSORED BY JHI MARKETING
Betrayal
Death of a Salesman
Present Laughter
A Midsummer Night’s Dream [Bridge Theatre]
Lungs
BEST NEW MUSICAL SPONSORED BY h CLUB LONDON
Waitress
& Juliet
Dear Evan Hansen
Come From Away
Only Fools and Horses
BEST MUSICAL REVIVAL SPONSORED BY CONCORD THEATRICALS
Mary Poppins
Evita
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Mame
9 to 5 The Musical
BEST OFF-WEST END PRODUCTION SPONSORED BY LES MISERABLES
Fiver
The View UpStairs
High Fidelity
Preludes
Falsettos
BEST REGIONAL PRODUCTION SPONSORED BY MTI EUROPE
Mame
The Color Purple
Life of Pi
My Beautiful Laundrette
West Side Story [Royal Exchange Manchester]
BEST CHOREOGRAPHY
Fabian Aloise - Evita
Matthew Bourne - Romeo & Juliet
Kelly Devine - Come From Away
Jennifer Weber - & Juliet
Nick Winston - Mame
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Lez Brotherston - Romeo & Juliet
Katrina Lindsay - Small Island
Rob Howell - Present Laughter
Philip Witcomb - Mame
Paloma Young - & Juliet
BEST DIRECTION SPONSORED BY LOVETHEATRE
Marianne Elliott & Miranda Cromwell - Death of a Salesman
Robert Icke - The Doctor
Jamie Lloyd - Evita
Matthew Warchus - Lungs
Matthew Warchus - Present Laughter
BEST GRAPHIC DIRECTION SPONSORED BY HEXAGON PRINT
& Juliet - Dewynters
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Muse Creative Communications
Equus - Feast Creative
Evita - Feast Creative
Rosmersholm - Bob King Creative
BEST LIGHTING DESIGN SPONSORED BY WHITE LIGHT
Jon Clark - Evita
Ben Cracknell - Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Howard Hudson - & Juliet
Jessica Hung Han Yun - Equus
Tim Lutkin & Hugh Vanstone - Present Laughter
BEST MUSICAL DIRECTION
Ian Eisendrath, Alan Berry & Team - Come From Away
Kimberly Grigsby - The Light in the Piazza
Alex Parker - Mame
John Rigby - Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Alan Williams - Evita
BEST SET DESIGN SPONSORED BY SINE DIGITAL
Soutra Gilmour - & Juliet
Soutra Gilmour - Evita
Rob Howell - Present Laughter
Robert Jones - The Light in the Piazza
Rae Smith – The Night of the Iguana
BEST SOUND DESIGN SPONSORED BY STAGE SOUND SERVICES
Ben Harrison - Mame
Nick Lidster - Evita
Gareth Owen - & Juliet
Gareth Owen - Come From Away
Mick Potter - The Light in the Piazza
BEST VIDEO DESIGN SPONSORED BY PRG
Jon Driscoll - Small Island
Will Duke - Grief is the Thing With Feathers
Andrzej Goulding - & Juliet
P J McEvoy - Falsettos
Ewan Jones Morris - A Very Expensive Poison
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