David Tennant, Imelda Stowton and Starlight Express Take Top Theater Awards – Irvine Times

Lord Lloyd-Webber’s Music Starlight Express went to the top of the 25th annual Whatstage Award, taking seven of its nine nominations at the show held on Sunday on London Palladium.

The production won the best award for the Music Revival, as well as the Best Professional Debut for Jeevan Braich, Best Design, Best Lighting Design, Best Video Design, Best Costume Design, and the New The best wigs category, hair and makeup design.

Tennant secured the best performer in the Gong play for his titular role in the new adaptation of Shakespeare Macbeth, which made him the actor to win the most prizes Whatstage with five wins in total.

The production, which was placed in the Donmar warehouse, and then at the London Theater Harold Pinter, dominated the play categories, as it also won the best Renaissance and the best sound design.

Meanwhile, Harry Potter actress was awarded the most good artist in a music gong for her lead role in a new edition of the classic Hello show, Dolly!, Which was adapted in Romcom since 1969.

Stictly Come Dancing and Bad Education Star Layton Williams won the best swallow for its spell as Emcee in Cabaret in Kit Kat Club, the role previously won by Eddie Redmain Award Whatstage.

West & Melanie La Barry star won the best support artist in her performance in Hadestown, based on the ancient Greek myth for Orpheus and Eurydis, who also won the best musical direction/supervision for Liam Robinson and Tarek merchant.

Actress Romeo & Juliet Freema Agyeman won the best support artist in a play, while the best regional production went to the revival of Oliver at the Festival Theater in Chichester, which is currently being held at the Gielgud Theater in West End.

The cherished best new music award was accompanied by the stage adaptation of Tina Fay to Romcom’s hit Romcom from 2004 and the best new play went to the adaptation of the Favorite Animation Theater Ghibli, spiritualized for its running at London Colosseum.

The Best West End show went to Six Musical, which follows Henry’s six wives while telling their own fairy tales through Song, while Best Director was won by Emma Rice for Buddha of the suburbs and the best choreography of Christopher Wilden for MJ The Musical S

The designer of veteran lighting Paule Constable has been awarded the UK Theater Award for many years in the industry.

The ceremony hosted the West & Gina and Mary Murray stars have presented performances from a number of shows, including 42 balloons, becoming Nancy, medium -sized girls, MJ The Musical and The Artist.

Darius Thompson and Alex Wood of WhatSonstage said: “This list of winners, coming after a quarter of a century of public nominees, voting and giving awards, once again celebrates pure diversity and variety of theatrical productions in our stages.

“With lightning -fast roller artists, avant -garde new productions of Shakespeare’s classics or fresh, musical absorbing Greek myths, all triumphant, this proves that the United Kingdom Theater can really do all this.

“Thank you to everyone who chose and supported their favorite shows and creators, and to the team in London Palladium for once again hosted this huge performance – it was a pleasure. Here is the next 25 years of live theater. “