With this year’s Olivier Awards being announced next Sunday 9 April, the third-annual Also Recognised Awards has announced their winners – in some notably different categories. The full list of winners is announced today in this audience-voted, industry accolade set up by theatre commentators Mark Shenton and Terri Paddock to celebrate lesser-known but equally worthy talent in fields overlooked by other awards bodies.
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, nominated for a record-breaking eleven Oliviers including Best New Play, wins in two further fields in the Also Recognised Awards: Theatre Event of the Year and, for its online activity, Best Twitter Engagement.
Groundhog Day, trying to convert eight Olivier Award nominations, bags an Also Recognised award for composer Tim Minchin for Best Original Music.
Another two-time Also Recognised winner is the musical revival Half a Sixpence, which wins both Best Show Trailer and London Newcomer of the Year for Charlie Stemp, who is Olivier nominated for Best Actor in a Musical.
Five-time Olivier nominee Dreamgirls wins the Also Recognised award for Best Musical Direction for Nick Finlow for his work on the show.
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Elsewhere in the 2017 Also Recognised Awards: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, directed by outgoing Globe artistic director Emma Rice, is named Best Shakespearean Production; Sheffield Crucible’s vibrant artwork for new musical Flowers for Mrs Harris wins in another of marketing categories, Best Show Poster; Sophie Melville wins Best Solo Performance for her critically acclaimed turn in Gary Owen’s Iphigenia in Splott for Sherman Cymru at the National Theatre; the cast of Thom Southerland’s revival of Titanic at Charing Cross Theatre win Best Ensemble Performance; and one-time Avenue Q co-stars Jon Robyns, Simon Lipkin and Giles Terera take the prize for Best Musical Cabaret for their charity fundraiser reunion at the Orange Tree Theatre.
The full list of winners are:
Best Musical Direction – Nick Finlow for Dreamgirls, Savoy Theatre
Best Original Music – Tim Minchin – Groundhog Day, Old Vic Theatre
Best Twitter Engagement – @HPPlayLDN – Harry Potter & the Cursed Child
Best Ensemble Performance – Titanic – Charing Cross Theatre
Best Solo Performance – Sophie Melville – Iphigenia in Splott, National Theatre
Best Shakespearean Production – A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Shakespeare’s Globe
Best Musical Cabaret – Simon Lipkin, Jon Robyns & Giles Terera – Orange Tree Theatre
London Newcomer of the Year – Charlie Stemp – Half a Sixpence, Chichester Festival & Noel Coward Theatre
Theatre Event of the Year – The premiere of Harry Potter & the Cursed Child
Best Show Poster – Flowers for Mrs Harris – Sheffield Crucible
Best Show Trailer – Half a Sixpence – Chichester Festival & Noel Coward Theatre
Full voting results, acceptance videos and winners’ ‘certificate selfies’ are published on www.mytheatremates.com
