Seven Olivier Awards including Best New Musical!
It was quite an evening for Matilda The Musical at the 2012 Laurence Olivier Awards! Matilda had received ten nominations and tonight skipped away with SEVEN awards, a record haul for a single show, including Best New Musical.
Rob Howells won Best Set Design and Simon Baker Best Sound Design. Best Director went to Matthew Warchus with Peter Darling claiming Best Theatre Choreographer. Members of the cast triumphed too with Best Actor in a Musical for Bertie Carvel and the four Matildas: Cleo Demetriou, Kerry Ingram, Eleanor Worthington Cox & Sophia Kiely shared the award for Best Actress in a Musical, breaking the record for the youngest Olivier Award-holders.
To see the full list of ten nominations earned by Matilda the Musical, the maximum for which it was eligible, see this earlier blog post. The full list of award winners can be found here.
Many congratulations to Tim and everyone at Matilda The Musical for such an amazing achievement.
*cartwheels*
Well done Tim and the team. I now have “Naughty” in my head all day (apparently it’s called earworm) and playing over dinner in the evening, because my daughter is doing it with her dance class at school. Words to live by.
(She’s 5, so not quite ready to appreciate “Storm”, but give it time.)
Love the music!!! Is there any way of accessing the sheet music for the songs?? Would appreciate any info…. Thank you!
We went to see Matilda last night and were blown away! It’s the best show we’ve seen in years. Brilliant stuff, Tim Minchin. And congratulations to all on and off stage for a very funny, clever and imaginative show.
I hope the little Matilda who got a standing ovation was very happy :)
Warmest congratulations for Matilda’s major success! You have made all your supporters so proud and happy and we hope you can take a moment to bathe in the warm sunshine of it all (even though it looked mightily chilly over there in London). At home here in Sydney, we have the CD (ordered it from the RSC) and practically know it by heart, but now we would really like to see this wonderful musical. Your Australian audiences are ready, willing and waiting!
brilliant. will pay money happily to see this.
Well done cast and crew. With Tim Minchin at the helm it was destined to be a blockbuster. Congratulations. Hurry up and bring to to Oz.
Fabulous news. Well done cast and crew. With Tim at the helm it was always going to be a blockbuster!!!
Eagerly waiting its Australian run.
All I can say is Yippee! I really like Matilda …I just really like it. Especially if it makes more people realise how amazingly clever a musician and lyricist you are. Sam’s mum would have been proud.
Congatulations
congratulations. Really want to see this in Australia soon. hope you can make it happen.
Hugh congratulations! Can’t wait to see the show, hope it comes to Plymouth.
You’re so talented and the awards will just keep rolling in
Good on ya, mate!
Congratulations to you all!
Well done all those involved with Matilda!
From the pictures and the videos looks like everyone had a blast at the ceremony.
When is Matilda coming to Australia?
And when it does may I suggest it comes to Perth as part of it? Would be a shame to miss Tim’s hometown out!
Amities,
SS
When is this coming to Australia?
I could not be more thrilled for all involved in this wonderful show! Feeling very proud indeed. Huge congratulations. :)
The team of Matilda deserve this for an outstanding show. My husband and I saw it in January and can understand why it has gained such a level of awards. Tim, we are big fans of your comedy and music. You are refreshingly talented and this is a right and rightful accalade to celebrate your hard work and talent. I hope you all celebrate in style!
Congrats with your success with the Roald Dahl’s musical, you have worked really hard, for a long time now to get where you are.
You deserve all the recognition you can get!
Your work should be noticed more as you are a brilliant musician.
Well done Tim
Wearing my Matilda badge with pride today!
Brilliant. A real winner
Saw it yesterday-it’s in for along run . Audience gave it a standing ovation
Saw it yesterday- it’s in for along run. Crowd were on their feet applauding. Brilliant
Brilliant music, lyric and story – no wonder. Well deserved. Congrats to everyone who brought the magic back!
You are an absolute genius! Love your work :-)
Matilda is BRILLIANT! Hope we get to see it in Australia! Congratulations!
Tim – just saw you in DC at the Reason Rally and I hope this show is coming to the US soon??!!!!!
Congratulations Tim! I can’t wait to see it someday…either in London or here in the US…
Congratulations!! Can’t wait to see Matilda in the USA.
Yippee indeeed! Well deserved,all. Seen it once, now going again with my overgrown child. Any excuse….
There is no Olivier Award for Writer/Composer/Lyrics/Score/etc. Tim will just have to wait for a Tony Award when Matilda opens in New York next year.
Musical wins seven awards but the guy who wrote the music gets nothing?
Strange.
Huge congrats to Tim and all involved with Matilda. So well deserved. Saw show a month or so ago and it was amazing, loved it. Enjoy the success.
The awards were spectacular! Matilda deserved every award it received and more! The performance by the girls was outstanding and it was just all bloody marvellous!
So unbelievably happy for you and everyone involved in the production–and really *really* hoping to get a chance to see it sometime this year!
I hope this is coming to Australia. We need to celebrate Australian talent.