Sunset Boulevard equals Olivier Awards record

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By Steven McIntoshReporter entertainment
Sunset Boulevard was the big winner at Sunday's Olivier Awards, tying the record for the most awards for a musical at the ceremony.
< p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10">Its seven wins included best musical cover and performance awards for its stars Nicole Scherzinger and Tom Francis.
Other winners included Succession star Sarah Snook, who won best actress for her performance in an adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Haydn Gwynne also won an acting award, six months after his death at the age of 66.
In accepting his award, Scherzinger joked: “I always wanted to be a singer and do musicals, and I dreamed of so many roles that I wanted to play. And honestly, this role, Norma Desmond's, wasn't one of them.
"But God works in mysterious ways," she laughed as the audience applauded, "because THIS is honestly one of the bravest, bravest things I've ever done, and I have an incomparable director, Jamie Lloyd, to thank for that."

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Sunset Boulevard equals Olivier Awards record

Nicole Scherzinger in the press room after receiving the award for Best Actress in a Musical at the Olivier Awards at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Date of the photo: Sunday April 14, 2024. PA Photo

By Steven McIntoshReporter entertainment

Sunset Boulevard was the big winner at Sunday's Olivier Awards, tying the record for the most awards for a musical at the ceremony.

< p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10">Its seven wins included best musical cover and performance awards for its stars Nicole Scherzinger and Tom Francis.

Other winners included Succession star Sarah Snook, who won best actress for her performance in an adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Haydn Gwynne also won an acting award, six months after his death at the age of 66.

In accepting his award, Scherzinger joked: “I always wanted to be a singer and do musicals, and I dreamed of so many roles that I wanted to play. And honestly, this role, Norma Desmond's, wasn't one of them.

"But God works in mysterious ways," she laughed as the audience applauded, "because THIS is honestly one of the bravest, bravest things I've ever done, and I have an incomparable director, Jamie Lloyd, to thank for that."