Olivier Awards 2025: ‘Giant’, Vittoria ‘violinist on the roof’
“Giant“A comedy on Roald Dahl’s anti -Semitism with John Lithgow as author of Truculent Children, was one of the great winners of the Olivier Awards this year, the equivalent of the Great Britain of the Tonys.
The comedy, which was staged at the Royal Court last year and is Transfer to West End on April 26thHe brought home three prizes to Sunday ceremony at the Royal Albert Hall in London: best actor, for Lithgow; The best support actor for Elliot Levey as an publisher who tries to convince Dahl to apologize for his statements on Jews; And the coveted prize for the best new game.
For that last prize, “Giant” has exceeded four other titles, including “The Years”, an acclaimed staging of the life of a French (with a Back-Street abortion and a late deal) which is Running the Harold Pinter Theater until April 19th.
The success for “Giant” was perhaps surprising given how much critics praised his opening race. Clive Davis, In the times of LondonHe said the “subtle, intelligent and elegantly made” drama, written by Mark Rosenblatt and directed by Nicholas Hytner, “deserves to move to a larger phase”. (Lithgow has said in the interviews who wants to bring the game to Broadway.)
Houman Board In a review for the New York Times He said that Lithgow was “superb as a besieged but not repentant writer, mixing the excited and avuncular esprit with accumulated, irritable slope and casual cruelty.
Two other productions also won three prizes: a awakening of “Fiddler on the Roof”, the much loved musical of 1964, which took place at the Regent’s Park Open Air Theater last year; AND “The curious case of the Benjamin button“A folk-rock adaptation of the story of F. Scott Fitzgerald on a man who ages on the contrary.
“Fiddler on the roof”, which is Moving to the Barbican in London in MayHe won the best musical awakening prize among other prizes. His competitors were a production of “Hi, Dolly!“This worked at the London Palladium; and revival during the”Starlight Express“Al Troubadour Wembley Park Theater E”Oliver!“Al Gielgud Theater.” The curious case of Benjamin Button “, who is playing at the Ambassador theaterHe brought home the best new music prize, as well as the best actor in a musical for his protagonist, John Dagleish, and the exceptional prize for the musical contribution.
The other important prizes of the night went to a series of productions. The prize for the best director, who puts the most clarified works and musicals against each other, went to Eline Arbo for the “The Years”-a comedy that attracted attention to London for more than the action on the stage: Sonia Friedman, producer of the show, said that almost all performances, a member of the public has passed out during the abortion scenarioAnd.
The best actress in a musical prize went to Imelda Staunton in the role of the protagonist of “Hi, Dolly!“, While the best actress in a theatrical prize went to Lesley Maneville for her” Oedipo “game by Robert Icke, who worked at the Wyndham’s Theater.
The best new award for the comedy or entertainment went to a version of the West End of “Titanique”, an absurd reinterpretation of the film “Titanic” by James Cameron with songs by Celine Dion who had His Premiere in New York in 2022.
